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AIDS is nowadays one of the major problems of public health in Burkina Faso. In order to get informations on pupils' sexual behaviour and knowledge about AIDS, we conducted a study on a representative sample from secondary schools' students in Ouagadougou (n = 466). The mean age was 18.2 years old; 48.7% among these pupils declared to have had least one sexual intercourse. The mean age of the first intercourse was 16.3 years old. For them, media was the main information source on AIDS...
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The advent of on-line Computer-Assisted Instruction and Computer Mediated Communication may improve instruction and communication in distance education in South African universities. On-line Computer-Assisted Instruction in distance education makes the reinforcemenLof knowledge both systematic and immediate. With instructional media such printed text, audio-cassettes, radio and television broadcasts the student at a distance is an isolated and passive recipient of knowledge. On-line...
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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeKey Words: myelodysplasticsyndrome(MDS)HIV infectionacquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
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Upon initial consideration, the might seem almost antithetical to genuine African-American experiences. Many would perceive this form as an extremely impractical device for teaching or sharing any but the most remote lessons of upper-class, European-originated cultural experiences. When compared with the songs to which most AfricanAmericans have been accustomed since birth, the European-originated would appear foreign in subject matter, text, and musical style. This paper, however, will...
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ABSTRACT This paper is about the author's experiences and problems as a white, expatriate British man teaching AIDS education at a teachers’ college in Zimbabwe. A key concern was to develop student‐centred methods to encourage students, and especially women, to articulate anxieties and desires which might be taboo in mixed gender groups.
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Previous articleNext article No AccessLucy Diggs Slowe: Champion of the Self-Determination of African-American Women in Higher EducationLinda M. PerkinsLinda M. Perkins Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 81, Number 1-4Winter-Fall 1996Vindicating the Race: Contributions to African-American Intellectual History...
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Programming techniques are used to calculate the efficiency of maize production on farms in the Transvaal homelands of KaNgwane, Lebowa and Venda, in 1991. The productivity losses that resulted from the 1992 drought are then calculated subject to the base year by adding a measure of technical progress and constructing multilateral Malmquist indices of total factor productivity (TFP), for the same 174 farms. In Venda, the least advanced region, productivity fell by 61%, compared with 74% in...
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It has been suggested that institutional changes inherent to the modernization process change cultural practices values attitudes and technology. The authors conducted this study to identify which variables discriminate between teenagers who have liberal attitudes toward sex and those who do not and to determine if those variables suggested by the explanations of modernization are supported by data from Zambia. 527 unmarried females aged 13-21 and enrolled in 5 randomly selected higher...
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Against the Wind: Americans and in LI.S. edited by Kofi Lomotey. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.183 pp. $16.95, paper. Reviewed by Mignonne Pollard, Harvard University. Against the Wind combines educational theory and personal experience in an examination of the lives of students and teachers in the southern United States from elementary school to graduate school. title provides an apt metaphor for the challenges present in the lives of Americans and women in all areas of...