Knobel GJ; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1989 Jun 4-9; 5: 897 (abstract no. E.571).
University of Cape Town, South Africa
OBJECTIVE AND AIMS: To be simple and informative; to create awareness and educate even semi-literate persons about AIDS and prevention in a spirit of competitiveness, the reward being to become "The Grand Master of HEALTH"; to change attitudes and behaviour; to create understanding of other religions and traditional beliefs; to create a global spirit of goodwill and cooperation. METHODS: Based on existing tribal games already known in rural and urban areas it was designed to be played in four different ways: i) for the very young player: a very simplified version of draughts; ii) for older children a version of snakes and ladders with rewards or admonishment for answering questions correctly or wrongly; iii) for sexually active people a more complicated chess-like game; iv) for the general public a game with questions like Trivial Pursuit. The board design is a variation of a traditional chess board, with 16 pieces consisting of a Hospital, Doctors, Nurses, Warriors (sexually active person or drug pushers hunting to conquer sexual partners or drug users), AIDS viruses (carriers) and Blood (potentially infected). All four variations can be played by the "captains" of opposing teams on a life-size mat with children as draught pieces. A "referee", for example the Biology Teacher or Health Sister, encourages players and onlookers to discuss aspects of the disease and argue against decisions in order to share and improve knowledge. After educational lectures self-study is encouraged from handouts and library references aiming at inter-school competitions. RESULTS: Enthusiastic response from audiences in limited trials.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Behavior
- Child
- Educational Status
- HIV Infections
- Humans
- Interpersonal Relations
- Nurses
- Rural Population
- Schools
- Students
- Teaching
- education
Other ID:
UI: 102180709
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