Health Education

Starting in 2008, the EAC’s health education program began to focus heavily on HIV/AIDS awareness and education. We use the PEPFAR “Stay Alive” curriculum, an abstinence program for children aged 9-14 years. We are now running this program in 4 different local schools, holding one session at each school each week. There are currently more than 300 local students attending the program.

For older students and adults, a new curriculum has been introduced in 2009 that focuses on safe sex, the importance of getting tested for HIV/AIDS, and the available treatment and counseling plans. This class is held once a week for different community groups including fishermen and women who sell fish, our own women’s sewing group, the local polytechnic school students, and other at-risk groups.

The health education department also uses a general health curriculum. The nurse, head CHW, and one primary school teacher give health talks and show videos on a range of subjects including alcoholism, domestic violence, malaria prevention, and handling health stigmas to different community groups once a week. We also offer these health classes and HIV/AIDS education to our Adult Education class on a weekly basis.