HIV Prevention in Action on the Football Field: The Whizzkids United Program in South Africa

The Africaid Trust is a grassroots South African non-profit organization that engages youth in HIV prevention by harnessing the popularity of football (i.e. soccer). WhizzKids United, the organization’s primary program, operates a 12-week program in elementary schools in Pietermaritzburg, South Afri...

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Published in:AIDS and behavior 2013-07, Vol.17 (6), p.2045-2052
Main Authors: Balfour, Louise, Farrar, Thomas, McGilvray, Marcus, Wilson, Douglas, Tasca, Giorgio A., Spaans, Johanna N., Mathews, Catherine, Maziya, Lungile, Khanyile, Siphosihle, Dalgleish, Tracy L., Cameron, William D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Adolescent
Child
Children & youth
Education
Elementary Education
Elementary Schools
Female
Health Care Services
Health Education
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health Psychology
HIV
HIV Infections - prevention & control
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Infectious Diseases
Knowledge
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Original Paper
Prevention
Program Evaluation
Public Health
School Health Services
Schools
Sexual behavior
Sexually transmitted diseases
Soccer
South Africa
STD
Stereotyping
Stigma
Youth
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Summary:The Africaid Trust is a grassroots South African non-profit organization that engages youth in HIV prevention by harnessing the popularity of football (i.e. soccer). WhizzKids United, the organization’s primary program, operates a 12-week program in elementary schools in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, which aims to impart knowledge and life skills critical to HIV prevention. The goal of this research was to compare elementary school youth who received the program to youth who only received traditional classroom-based HIV education on health behaviors and HIV-related knowledge and stigma. A secondary objective was to evaluate HIV knowledge, sexual behaviors, attitudes towards HIV and health care seeking behaviors among South African youth in grades 9–12. Elementary students who participated in the program reported greater HIV knowledge and lower HIV stigma ( p  
ISSN:1090-7165
1573-3254
DOI:10.1007/s10461-013-0448-6