HIV/AIDS: A Guide For Children

This Lesson:

• Explains to children that having HIV needn’t change their lives completely. They can still hug and kiss their family and friends, go to school, and play and have fun with their friends as normal.
• Dispels commonly held myths about how HIV can and cannot be transmitted.
• It teaches that you cannot catch HIV by sharing cups, spoons, clothes, toys or living in the same house, but stresses the importance of covering cuts and wounds and not touching syringes, needles or razor blades.
• Stresses the importance of antiretroviral medicine, blood tests and health clinics.
• This lesson is part of a series of lessons on HIV/AIDS.

These lessons are available on DVD (see below) and Online