Be Free From HIV

Ages:

11-13

Grade Levels: 6 Time/Duration: 45 Minutes
Program Description:
Students act out how the immune system usually keeps us healthy in spite of the virus exposure we have and how HIV weakens the immune system. Stages of HIV infection and modes of transmission of HIV from person to person are discussed. Abstinence from sexual activity until marriage is presented as the way to avoid sexually transmitted HIV infection. It is stressed that normal day to day activities do not pass HIV from person to person.
 
 
(Indiana Standards 6: 1.1, 1.7, 1.8, 2.8, 2.9, 3.4, 4.2, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.7, 7.1, 7.3)
(National Health Education Standards: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7)