December 2003

Programming for HIV Prevention Among College Students in Thailand

Program Implications

The “Teens on Smart Sex” successfully improved students’ HIV-related knowledge and attitudes about PLHA. It also improved female students’ attitudes about condom use and increased actual use. There was no evidence, however, of the adoption of other protective behaviors, such as abstinence, among males and females.

The fact that improvements in many of the attitude and behavior variables differed by sex and sexual experience highlights the importance of targeting the program to better fit the needs of specific subgroups.

The study also demonstrates that intensive teacher training which includes follow-up, while fundamental to the success of school-based HIV programs, may not be sufficient to prepare teachers to teach all aspects of the curriculum. In the future, teachers should have more time to practice these topics during training, or health professionals should be brought into the classroom to help teach sensitive portions of the course. Evaluation findings are being used to strengthen course activities so that course impact can result in greater behavior change.

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03 Jan 2009