Unit III: HIV/AIDS Education Curriculum --
Ages 14-17

The following six sessions, each last approximately 1 hour:

• Session I: Learning About HIV and AIDS
• Session II: Making Decisions
• Session III: Personal Goals and Choices
• Session IV: Practicing Skills to Resist Pressure
• Session V: Condoms and How to Use Them
• Session VI: What We Want Others to Know About HIV and AIDS - A Group Project

Highlights of Unit III include:

• Learning the two ways to be 100% safe from HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
• Understanding the four levels of peer pressure to drink alcohol, use drugs, or have sex.
• Mastering nine strategies to resist peer pressure without losing friends.
• Competing to win the trivia-format "What do We Know?" game. Categories include "Condoms," "Postponing Sexual Activity," "HIV/AIDS," "People Living with HIV/AIDS," and "Sexually Transmitted Diseases."
• Reading the story of "Angela and Mark," and choosing what the end of the story could be, based on the decision the reader would make in the same situation.
• Ranking personal goals and assessing how they affect decisions about preventing HIV.
• Exploring the personal and social benefits of postponing sex.
• Getting the facts about condoms and how they greatly reduce the risk of HIV infection.
• Creating a project to tell teenagers about HIV prevention.