The role of non-formal education in combating the HIV epidemic in the Philippines and Taiwan

Donald E. Morisky, Shu Yu Lyu, Lianne A. Urada

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摘要

The Philippines is experiencing a low but slowly growing prevalence of HIV, with a UN estimate of 6,000-11,000 cases out of a population of 91 million, and a 150% increase in new cases in 2008 compared to previous years. Earlier education programmes employed non-formal educational training techniques in the southern Philippines to target high-risk groups such as female sex workers and their establishment managers; the effort was expanded to target males in the community. In comparison, as of 2009, Taiwan has an estimated 40,000 cases of HIV/AIDS in a population of 23 million. It experienced a major increase in HIV infection among injecting drug users, from 77 newly reported cases in 2003 to 2,381 such cases in 2007. This article compares and contrasts the response to the epidemic in each country, describing non-formal educational programmes targeted and tailored to specific high-risk populations.

原文英語
頁(從 - 到)335-357
頁數23
期刊Prospects
39
發行號4
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 2009

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 教育

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