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01-12-2012 | Meeting abstract
Exploring factors associated with a teacher’s self-efficacy in HIV-prevention education in Lusaka, Zambia
Authors:
Margaret Henning, Chunheui Chi
Published in:
International Journal for Equity in Health
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Special Issue 1/2012
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Excerpt
Africa remains the epicenter of the global prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which leads to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) [
1]. Evidence indicates school-based HIV-prevention programming is an effective step in protecting the general population from further HIV infection. Since HIV/AIDS is a major public health, social, economic and development challenge [
2] the education sector is uniquely positioned within the community to support appropriate and sustainable change. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of teachers as agents of change for HIV prevention, and to investigate key individual and social predictors of schoolteachers' self-efficacy as HIV-prevention educators in school settings in Lusaka, Zambia. …