SHAPE is actually an old programme. It would be good if the curriculum was shared with [him] so that he can post it.

Burma to Tackle Sex Education in Schools
Khun Sam
25 January 2006
 
Burma plans to add an HIV/AIDS prevention and education program to its national school curriculum, according to the government’s Public Health Department.

Reports in the Burmese language news journal The Flower News say the program, called “SHAPE,” will target children aged between 7 and 16—an age group considered particularly vulnerable.
 
The move appears to have resulted from an “HIV/AIDS and Youth” seminar held in Thailand’s Bangkok and Chiang Mai last October.

Some schools have already started HIV/AIDS education programs. A high school teacher in Hopin Township, Kachin State said that her school began a special weekly awareness class at the start of the 2005-2006 school year, with assistance from UNICEF Myanmar [Burma].

Dr Thein Lwin of the Thai-based Teacher Training for Burmese Teachers program agrees the move is necessary. “This issue [HIV/AIDS] is not usually talked about among parents and children, brothers and sisters, and teachers and students. Therefore many experts...will be required, and school teachers will need adequate training.”

UN estimates put the number of Burma’s adult population infected with HIV at 610, 000, about 2 percent of the population. Experts have warned that the epidemic is spreading from concentrated high-risk groups, such as intravenous drugs users and sex workers, into the general population and will gradually threaten neighboring countries.

Last year, Global Fund, the world’s single largest funding body, terminated its mission to fight HIV/AIDS and other diseases in Burma, citing the difficulties it had faced in dealing with the Burmese junta.

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