Sex and relationship education and HIV

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Sex and relationship education and HIV

• Levers and barriers to success steering a
  course between the past and future
• Marta Diavolova
• UNFPA Assistant Representative
• Bulgaria

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Bulgaria

• highest teenage pregnancy rate in the region,
  high abortion rate and STIs
• low HIV prevalence country
• increased violence
• multi- ethnical community
• rapid economic and social change (challenging
  attitudes and values)
• 51 of children born out of wedlock
• reform of education sector slow, no public
  consensus and support

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Partners

• Individuals/institutions
• Non-governmental organizations
• Ministry of Health
• National Center for Public Health
• Ministry of Education and Science
• Local authorities/ municipalities
• UN Agencies

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School Curricula and teaching - learning methods

• Education unidirectional activity (transmit the
  knowledge), pupils are answering questions but
  not raising them
• SRHE - Participatory forms group discussions,
  games, role plays, quizzes, theater improve the
  effectiveness.
• Lack of clear curriculum space for SRHE stand
  alone subject/ whole school approach
• Manuals and educational materials

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Teachers

• Limited but growing number of teachers with
  experience - and public opportunities for
  validation
• Lack of professional body among teachers to
  champion the SRHE
• Undergraduate and post graduate programmes for
  teachers - with limited participatory forms of
  education (reform of the university curricula)

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Public support

• Limited support from school directors
• Anxiety /misunderstanding of some parents
• No public pressure and demand for it no
  consensus on when the SRHE should start
• Educational reform and the needs and interest of
  young people
• Social taboos surrounding responsible discussion
  of sexuality

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