Dimapur, Aug. 22 (EMN): Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) and the Nagaland State AIDS Control Society (NSACS) have announced to jointly conduct a two-day online training programme under the Adolescence Education Programme (AEP) for the teachers on August 25 and 27 from 10 am to 12 noon.
The Adolescence Education Programme (AEP) is a joint initiative by Ministry of Education (MoE), department of School Education and Literacy and National AIDS Control Organization (Naco), government of India, to equip every adolescent (child between 10-19 years) with scientific information, knowledge and life-skills to protect themselves from HIV infection and manage their concerns pertaining to reproductive and sexual health, stated a DIPR report. AEP is an umbrella programme to cover all the secondary and higher secondary schools of the country.
It stated that NSACS has been conducting training programmes for teachers under AEP in the state since 2010 with the objective to provide accurate age appropriate life skills based adolescence education in a sustained manner in schools and provide structured education to enhance knowledge and skills of adolescents to deal with challenges of life.
Some of the areas to be discussed during the training included aims and objectives of AEP, HIV/AIDS and STI, Growing up and adolescence reproductive sexual health, mental health and substance abuse, and Life skills for HIV prevention.
All the head of registered institutions are requested to take note of the training and select one teacher to attend the training positively. It informed that registration link for the training programme would be shared later in the district WhatsApp groups and email ID of the schools.
It further added that e-certificates would be issued to the participants.