Educating on HIV/AIDS and Child Labour
ILO’s SCREAM: A special module on HIV, AIDS and child labour aims to mobilise young people in increasing awareness and understanding on health, gender, family and child labour issues. Using creative, participatory teaching methods this training module is an educator’s resource for bringing about positive social change.
Title: SCREAM: A special module on HIV, AIDS and child labour
Publisher: International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), ILO, 2008
It is of particular concern that the HIV pandemic is becoming one of the most obstinate root causes of child labour as it exposes even more children to the hardships of child labour due to poverty, the burden of caring for family, the death of guardians, fewer teachers and discrimination.
- Cover page of the module / Photo credit: ILO
This publication is intended for use by educators to inform young people about HIV and AIDS and utilises participatory methodologies and the visual, literary and performing arts to increase awareness and understanding of related health, gender, family and child labour issues
The ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) along with its Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work (ILO/AIDS) are working together to ensure that the links between HIV/AIDS and child labour are well understood and addressed in an integrated way.
Launched by the ILO in 2002, Supporting Children’s Rights through Education, the Arts and the Media (SCREAM) is an education and mobilisation tool that is designed to achieve the meaningful participation of young people in the global campaign against child labour.
This year an additional, this special SCREAM module has been introduced to the pack, which focuses specifically on HIV, AIDS and Child Labour.
This module has been created keeping in mind the fact that young people are an integral part of the campaign to eliminate child labour and to put a stop to the spread of HIV.
From the policy to the community level, there is a need to promote universal understanding of the virus, its transmission and its effects, a change in attitudes towards women, masculinity and sex, and a better understanding of sexual violence, gender inequality and stigmatisation as continuing causes of the spread of HIV.
Using creative, participatory teaching methods, SCREAM is an educator’s resource that aims to invest the time, attention, support and guidance in young people that they require to grow into socially conscious, responsible, motivated citizens.
This module is recommended to all member States, education authorities, teachers and their organisations, employers’ and workers’ organisations, NGOs and community organisations, and to all those who interact with young people in an educational context. It is about investing in young people and empowering them to participate in the movement for positive social change.
