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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at cila.comminitcila.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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HIV Prevention Education for High School Students

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HIV Prevention Education for High School Students is a project designed to address HIV and sexually transmitted infections among high school youth in urban Nigeria by using behaviour change theory. The programme works to address young people's lack of knowledge, to improve sexual health attitudes, and to reduce sexual risk-taking behaviours through education. The project's goal is to encourage delayed initiation of sex and reductions in sexual risk-taking among sexually experienced youth aged 13 to 20.
Communication Strategies

Developed in conjunction with health education experts from the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the University of Ibadan, this initiative draws on interpersonal communication conducted within the school setting. It includes six HIV education sessions, implemented in classrooms by a physician and two experienced teachers. Sessions, each lasting two to six hours, occur once each week during six consecutive weeks. To address the differing needs of students, each class level (1, 2 or 3) receives the programme separately.

Using an entertainment-education strategy, the sessions centre on experiential activities, including role-plays, stories, songs, debates, and essays, as well as films and more traditional lectures. The programme also includes a demonstration on the proper use of condoms. During and after the programme’s end, the reproductive health educators continue making themselves available to refer requesting students and teachers to appropriate clinical care services.

Development Issues

HIV/AIDS, Youth.

Sources

Advocates for Youth website on June 8 2005.