Title:	A FRAMEWORK FOR DESIGNING WEB-BASED HIV/AIDS PREVENTIVE EDUCATION AND COUNSELING SERVICES TO YOUTH: A UGANDAN PERSPECTIVE
Author(s):	Joseph Kizito Bada , Jarkko Suhonen
ISBN:	978-972-8924-83-6
Editors:	Miguel Baptista Nunes and Maggie McPherson (series editors: Piet Kommers, Pedro Isaías and Nian-Shing Chen)
Year:	2009
Edition:	V II, 2
Type:	Short Paper
First Page:	210
Last Page:	214
Language:	English
Cover:
Full Contents:	click to dowload
Paper Abstract:	In this paper, we present new ways of enhancing existing methods of sharing and communicating HIV/AIDS epidemic information to the secondary school students in Uganda. In the last decade, a number of approaches have been used to communicate AIDS preventive measures in Uganda. The existing practices include use of radio, school drama performed by children, email, static web content for AIDS education, classroom instructions using standard HIV/AIDS textbooks and story books for children to learn about effects of AIDS on individuals and society. These existing practices can be complemented by advanced IT solutions such as social networking– e.g. web 2.0- services, web-based databases for automating counseling services and web-based instructional content and assessment for testing how children understand online content via HIV/AIDS learning objects in order to enhance and improve the preventive actions against the epidemic. We propose five components as a starting point for designing an online learning environment for HIV/AIDS education and counseling services to the youth in Uganda. Furthermore, based on the five components and analysis of existing solutions for HIV/AIDS educational and counseling services in Uganda, functional requirements for designing web-based HIV/AIDS preventive education and counseling services to youth in Uganda is presented. The requirements framework can be used to design and develop HIV/AIDS preventive learning environments also outside of the original design context
	Go Back