Developmentally-based AIDS/HIV education. (human immunodeficiency virus) From: Journal of School Health | Date: August 1, 1990| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1990 American School Health Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

With intensification of the AIDS epidemic, AIDS/HIV education has become a priority for health professionals and educators working with children. The increasing incidence of AIDS in adolescents and the high number of AIDS cases among people in their twenties who most likely contracted AIDS in adolescence, point to the critical importance of introducing AIDS/HIV education in the elementary school years. [1] The U.S. Surgeon General and others have advocated that AIDS/HIV education, in some form, occur for all students at each school level (elementary, middle, high school) so ...

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