EFFECTS OF HEALTH EDUCATION ON BEHAVIORAL CHANGES IN, PREVENTION OF HIV/AIDS AND URINARY SCHISTOSOMIASIS

艾滋病毒/艾滋病在撒哈拉以南非洲的流行是一个非常严重的公共卫生问题。虽然针对成人的一些方法(自愿、咨询和检测)是有效的，但在撒哈拉以南非洲，几乎没有针对学童的方法来预防艾滋病毒感染和在官方教育中促进更安全的性行为。这是因为仅有艾滋病毒健康教育还不能在该地区的大多数学校和社区接受，尿路血吸虫病也是该地区大片地区的一个严重的公共卫生问题，在学龄儿童中普遍流行。症状很容易识别，而且有有效的药物可用。许多学校开展了尿路血吸虫病健康教育和群众性化疗。以及该地区的社区。在对艾滋病和血吸虫病的知识、态度、行为进行调查研究后，我们尝试将两种疾病的健康教育结合起来，虽然知识水平较高，但有效的行为改变需要时间来发生。在肯尼亚被研究的社区中，尿路血吸虫病的再感染率非常高，坦桑尼亚高中生的危险性行为盛行。必须开发评估发展中国家健康教育长期效果的工具。

HIV/AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa is a very serious public health problem. Although, some approachs for adults like VCT (voluntary, counseling and testing) are effective, almost no approach exists in Sub-Saharan Africa for school children for preventing HIV infection and promoting safer sex in the official education. It is because HIV health education alone is not ready to be accepted in most schools and communities in the region.Urinary schistosomiasis is also a serious public health problem in large areas of the region, prevailing widely among school-aged children. Symptoms are easy to be identified and an effective drug is available. Health education for urinary schistosomiasis and mass-chemotherapy are accepted in many schools. and communities in the region. We tried to combine health education of the two diseases together, after conduction studies on knowledge, attitude, and practice for HIV and schistosomiasis.Although the knowledge level was high, the effective behavioral change needed to time to occur. The re-infection rate of urinary schistosomiasis was very high in the studied community of Kenya, and risky sex among high-school children in Tanzania was prevailing. Tools for evaluating the longer-term effects of health education in developing countries must be developed.