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Disease Prevention and Control

HIV/AIDS Prevention Education (Prevention: The Sooner, The Better)

INMED has implemented Prevention: The Sooner the Better, an HIV/AIDS prevention curriculum for elementary school students in Brazil since 2002 as an adjunct to our school-based nutrition and preventive health education programs. INMED’s educational strategy engages the community by communicating health messages through formats such as plays, posters and parades.

AIDS Play
INMED’s educational strategy engages the community by communicating health messages through formats such as the play on HIV/AIDS prevention developed and presented by these Brazilian children.

In South Africa, INMED has developed a program in partnership with Nkanyiso, a grassroots South African NGO, addressing HIV/AIDS prevention through three main channels:

  • Providing care to 88,000 orphans and vulnerable children and their caregivers through recreational, educational, and psycho-social support services
  • Providing intensive education on HIV/AIDS to 12,800 women of childbearing age, with an emphasis on prevention of maternal-to-child transmission
  • Empowering 20 local community-based organizations through training and enhancement of services.

We have also developed a program model to prevent HIV infection through evidence-based interventions among youth ages 9-15, and to prevent HIV infection and reduce the transmission of HIV/AIDS in adults, specifically targeted for Mozambique.