Effectiveness of an Integrated HIV/AIDS Education Program

The present paper studied the effectiveness of an integrated HIV /AIDS education program (iHAEP) carried out on students of std. VII and VIII from Mumbai.The HIV/AIDS education program used English and Math as a medium to sensitize the students in their early teens to the issue of HIV/AIDS. In this investigation, effectiveness of iHAEP is as measured by the awareness and attitude of students towards the HIV/AIDS issue, students ’ behaviour intentions and students’ general reaction to the HIV/AIDS education program. The Quasi-Experimental Pre-Test Post Test Non-equivalent Group Design was used for the study. The Quantitative Analysis, used to study the level of awareness and attitude of students to HIV/AIDS, employed descriptive analysis of the data by finding the measures of central tendency, std. deviation, skewness and kurtosis and the inferential techniques used for testing the hypotheses i