22/10/08
Primary school teachers from public-run schools in Port Moresby should be in a better position now to teach HIV/AIDS life skills. A program on the topic was run by the Education Department in partnership with United Nations AIDS (UNAIDS). UNAIDS conducted the two-week life skills workshop for HIV/AIDS at the Hideaway Hotel. It was conducted by the program facilitators Joe Anang and Andandi of UNAIDS. Mr Anang said the workshop was aimed at training teachers to develop skills that would enable them to teach young people how to adopt positive behaviours that would help them to deal with demands and challenges of everyday life. “With a focus on HIV/AIDS and using the life skills approach, it is hoped these skills would help the teachers to teach their children in their own schools,” he said.
