University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 12, 1991
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One person at a time
By Kerrie Gottschalk
Kansan staff writer
There is a lot more to AIDS education than learning how to put a condom on a banana, the president of the Student Senate AIDS Task Force said.
Instead of going through this and other education methods typical of a doctor explaining AIDS to a roomful of people, the task force this semester plans on using the more personal approach of peer education, said Patrick Dilley, president of the task force.
Training sessions for students who want to educate their peers about acquired immune deficiency syndrome and sexually transmitted diseases will begin in about four weeks, he said.
The task force members will present information that they hope will make students think seriously about their sexual practices.
"You don't have to an AIDS counselor, and you don't have to be an expert in the field to be a peer educator," Dilley said.
The group also will give basic AIDS and STD information, Dilley said.
The KU AIDS task force's new peer education program aims at those who still do not practice
safe sex.
Approximately 95 percent of students on college campuses are aware of how AIDS is transmitted, but only about 40 percent practice safe sex, Dilley said.
"The whole point of the program is to teach students to become aware of how to protect themselves," said Jo Hardesty, task force adviser.
She said the task force did not promote sexual activity. However, if students are going to be sexually active, they need to be safe, she said.
Hardesty said peer education would not patronize or lecture. The program
"I think the whole concept of peer education is very valuable in that students sometimes take that information and listen better," said Janine Demo, health educator at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
is meant to be instructive and supportive.
Demo is the chairperson of the University HIV/STD Education Committee, which works cooperatively with the task force.
She said the committee did not duplicate the task force's services. Instead, the two bodies communicate with one another by sending new AIDS and STD information.
"It's important for students to have a direct role in AIDS education," Demo said.
Dilley said the task force would continue to provide AIDS and STD information through posters and fliers.
The task force was created in 1987 to address the spread of AIDS and STDs on college campuses.
"People need to be aware that the behaviors they are choosing now will be affecting them later in their lives," Hardesty said.
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