Health Communication Materials Database | M/MC ID# PL GHA 205 |
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| English Title: The HIV/AIDS questions and answers book
Series Title: | Stop AIDS. Love Life Project |
Media Format: Pamphlet
Date: 2003
Country: Ghana
Subjects: AIDS, HIV Prevention, HIV Transmission, Mother-to-Child Transmission, Gonorrhea, Condom Use, Female Condom, HIV Testing, Persons Living with HIV/AIDS, Voluntary Counseling and Testing, Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention, JHU/CCP
Audience: Parents, Trainers and Teachers, Health Personnel
Languages: English
Description: 21 x 14 cm. Pamphlet, 40 p. Cover: yellow with black text and Stop AIDS, Love Life Logo (illustration of a yellow hand).
Producers: Ghana Ministry of Health, Health Promotion Unit, National AIDS Control Programme
Contact: Ghana Ministry of Health, Health Education Division
Mrs. Mary Arday Kotei, Head, School of Hygiene, P.O. Box 753
Accra, Ghana
Phone: 233-21-667081
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|  | Abstract: This booklet is designed for health service providers in the public and private sector, teachers, extension workers, radio and TV journalists, parents, and public speakers. In question-and-answer format, this pamphlet explains what HIV and AIDS are, what causes AIDS, the difference between AIDS and other STDs, how one catches it, symptoms, if it can be caught through social contact, how to avoid catching... more Abstract: This booklet is designed for health service providers in the public and private sector, teachers, extension workers, radio and TV journalists, parents, and public speakers. In question-and-answer format, this pamphlet explains what HIV and AIDS are, what causes AIDS, the difference between AIDS and other STDs, how one catches it, symptoms, if it can be caught through social contact, how to avoid catching it, why we are concerned about AIDS. Emphasizes that sex is the main way people in Ghana get infected with HIV. Also discussion transmission through transfusions and childbirth. Dispels common myths about HIV transmission through daily activities. Discusses condom use and AIDS, the AIDS virus test, living with people who have AIDS and HIV. Includes a glossary. less
Notes: This is a revised reprint of a 1999 version of the same pamphlet. This reprint was done by Stop AIDS Love Life Partners in 2003. See PL GHA 79 for a 1994 version. A copy of PL GHA 205 is included in the "Compassion Kit", KT GHA 6.
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