Perspectives of education sector stakeholders on a teacher training module to reduce HIV/AIDS stigma in Western Kenya.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For adolescents living with HIV (ALWH), school may be the most important but understudied social sphere related to HIV stigma. Teachers are role models in the classroom and within the community, and their attitudes and behavior towards people living with HIV may have critical psychosocial and treatment ramifications. Altering teachers' knowledge, attitudes and beliefs (K/A/B) about HIV could reduce the stigmatizing content within their teaching, classrooms and school, improving the environment for ALWH.

Methods

We developed a one-day teacher training module to enrich teacher K/A/B that included lecture presentations, HIV films and educational animation, structured instructions for teacher role play scenarios, and a question-and-answer session facilitated by a trai

SUBMITTER: Chory A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8247165 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature