This paper reports evaluation results for school and school-plus-community HIV prevention programmes delivered in rural communities and Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) in Edo State, Nigeria. HIV Prevention for Rural Youth (HP4RY), a Canada-Nigeria action research project funded by the Global Health Research Initiative of Canada, delivered and evaluated these programmes. In schools, the project supported
Ministry of Education training for the teacher- and peer-led Junior Secondary School programme Family Life and HIV Education (FLHE). FLHE, has been approved by the Federal Ministry of Education for delivery in Junior Secondary Schools across Nigeria. As funds become available, teachers, principals and peer educators are being trained to deliver this programme. However, until this study, it has not been subject to an impact evaluation. In communities HP4RY developed and delivered a community-based
programme based on the AIDS Competent Community (ACC) model developed by Catherine Campbell and her colleagues20, 21. FLHE22, the community-based programme 23, and the full research-programme-evaluation methodology 24
are more fully described elsewhere in this volume. The primary outcome goal of these programmes was to reduce youth’s vulnerability to HIV infection through changes in knowledge, attitudes and sexual behaviours.