[Prevention of AIDS in secondary schools. Adaptation of the peer's education process].

Abstract

Peers education is a processus potentially relevant for the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools. This paper describes the public health, institutional and educational aspects of the adaptation and evaluation of peers education. The action-research consists of: building an institutional framework in order to ensure the decision-making for the project by consensus, the selection and training of peers; carrying a survey before and after the intervention in the 3 pilot and the 3 control schools. Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources. There is still three months to wait to know if this method is relevant for the prevention of AIDS.