The Role of Nonformal Education in Combating the HIV Epidemic in the Philippines and Taiwan |
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| Authors: | Morisky Donald E Lyu Shu-Yu Urada Lianne A |
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| Institution: | (1) School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, USA;(2) School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, 250 Wu-Hsing Street, Taipei, 11031, Taiwan, ROC;(3) Department of Social Welfare, UCLA School of Public Affairs, 3250 Public Policy Bldg., Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656, USA |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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