Year: 2008
The latest news from our team, partners, and supporters.
NOVEMBER 30, 2008 | for HIV/AIDS
TeachAids partners with Central Johannesburg College in South Africa
TeachAids has partnered with Central Johannesburg College (CJC) in South Africa to test the efficacy of various HIV/AIDS education materials amongst the college's 7000 students across five campuses. The partnership will commence with preliminary surveys in which animations, among other education materials, will be shown to hundreds of students to measure their knowledge of and attitudes...
OCTOBER 31, 2008 | for HIV/AIDS
Stepping Stones International uses animations in Botswana
Stepping Stones International shared the TeachAids animations with youth (ages 16-18) in Botswana this week to teach them about HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention methods. These students were selected for the Peer Education project as role models and leaders in their community. In Botswana, 64% of youth (ages 10-18) have been orphaned by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Stepping...
OCTOBER 31, 2008 | for HIV/AIDS
TeachAids provides education to red-light areas in India
TeachAids has partnered with Cents of Relief to provide awareness materials to educate women and children trafficked into red-light areas. The culturally-appropriate materials will be used in a night shelter for young girls whose mothers have been trafficked into prostitution in West Bengal. Cents of Relief has been working to provide vulnerable populations, particularly women in prostitution...
OCTOBER 31, 2008 | for HIV/AIDS
TeachAids reaches soldiers and students in northeast India
TeachAids animations were screened to 300 soldiers in military camps and 365 civilians in schools and colleges in Arunachal Pradesh, India, to increase HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention, and treatment methods. The seven-day HIV/AIDS awareness program was successfully initiated by Dr. Pankaj Singh Poswal, a dedicated army doctor and liaison officer with the civil medical staff of the...
AUGUST 31, 2008 | for HIV/AIDS
TeachAids partners with Maitri in India
TeachAids has partnered with Maitri to provide culturally-appropriate HIV/AIDS materials to personnel in the uniformed services and migratory laborers along with their respective families. Founded in 2005, Maitri is committed to the health and well-being of the most vulnerable populations, including women and children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS throughout North India. ...
JUNE 30, 2008 | for HIV/AIDS
TeachAids animations used in middle schools in China
In 2008, three visitors representing NGOs in China were invited to the United States under the auspices of the Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Program. Included was Ms. Ying ZHANG the Director, Fuyang AIDS Orphan Salvation Association, Mr. Jun LU, Chief Coordinator, Beijing YIRENPING Center and Mr. Xiangyang CHENG the Director, Beijing Lovingsource Education...
JUNE 30, 2008 | for HIV/AIDS
TeachAids presents at Utrecht University
TeachAids presents at the 2008 International Perspectives in the Learning Sciences conference. The theme this year is Cre8ing a Learning World and the conference will be hosted by the Research Centre Learning in Interaction at Utrecht University, with assistance of the Open University of the Netherlands and the University of Twente. It will be held in...
MAY 31, 2008 | for HIV/AIDS
TeachAids featured by Stanford President Hennessy around the world
The TeachAids interdisciplinary research project is featured in Stanford University's Leading Matters media production. Leading Matters is an inspirational Stanford event that reveals how the university is changing and reinventing itself. President Hennessy is taking this production to cities around the world, including Hong Kong, Tokyo, and selected locations throughout the United States. The tour will last...
MAY 31, 2008 | for HIV/AIDS
TeachAids partners with CARE International to create HIV/AIDS animations for Rwanda
TeachAids and CARE International in Rwanda are working together to develop interactive learning tools for rural communities in Rwanda. Through the Communities Allied Against Violence and AIDS Project (CAVA), partly funded by the European Commission and partly by CARE UK, this program targets 35,000 community members, including staff members of primary and secondary schools, young adults...
MAY 31, 2008 | for HIV/AIDS
TeachAids presents at Caltech Symposium
TeachAids founder, Piya Sorcar, presents her interactive HIV/AIDS education materials at the 2008 GEANCO Foundation African Health Education Symposium. Also speaking was David Baltimore, Nobel prize-winning discoverer of the molecule that HIV uses to copy itself into DNA; Kimberly Shriner, leader of the Phil Simon Clinic Tanzania project; Joel Breman, Senior Scientific Advisor at the Fogarty...
APRIL 30, 2008 | for HIV/AIDS
TeachAids presents at Global Health Conference at Yale University
TeachAids presented at the Unite for Sight 5th Annual International Health Conference at Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, Yale University. The conference included more than 180 renowned speakers from North America, Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. Included a keynote address by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Susan Blumenthal, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, and Dr. Allan Rosenfield. ...
MARCH 31, 2008 | for HIV/AIDS
Partnership with Fuyang AIDS Orphan Salvation Association to create animated tools for China
TeachAids and Fuyang AIDS Orphan Salvation Association have formed a partnership to create HIV/AIDS prevention materials for youth in China. Ms. Zhang, the Director of Fuyang AIDS Orphan Salvation Association, was featured in the 2006 Oscar Winning Documentary The Blood of Yingzhou District for her outreach efforts. Also joining the collaboration is the China AIDS Initiative...
