Planned Instruction - Support for Interdisciplinary Learning About HIV

The integration of health messages into other curricula can be an effective way of increasing the time available to teach/learn about HIV/sexuality. However, the planning and coordination of the learning outcomes must be done very carefully. Further, there is a need to ensure that someone is responsible for evaluating the learning that takes place within these integrated learning strategies, both from the health and other subject content perspectives.

Education ministries and school districts were asked if and how they supported learning about HIV/AIDS by integrating the content into other subject areas. Generally, the responses to these questions indicate that such integration of curricula is not a strategy that is being pursued actively by a majority of education ministries nor school districts. The responses were as follows.

Activities to Support Cross-Curricular Learning About HIV/sexuality

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