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In July 2011, 200 people from the Eglise Du Christianisme Celeste-Luli Parish in Aflao, Ghana gathered in small rooms with bamboo covered walls with the common goal of learning about HIV and AIDS through the TeachAids animations. In order to accommodate the large number of learners, parish members arranged multiple education sessions. The sessions were…
TeachAids has launched a new YouTube channel featuring our research-based HIV prevention software. In addition to the software being available through this website for free, the YouTube channel will feature full-length Linear (non-interactive) versions of the TeachAids animations in several languages. The TeachAids tutorials available on the channel today include versions in English (Male Indian, Female…
In 2011, the Humanitarian Efforts Reaching Out (HERO) organization made it their mission to integrate the TeachAids materials into their nonprofit’s educational and outreach efforts. Using the TeachAids software, HERO hopes to further educate and empower communities and to help reduce behaviors that place Tibetans refugees at risk of infection. Last year, an interdisciplinary team…
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have been using the TeachAids software to facilitate their health outreach sessions at local Youth Centers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. With over one million people infected with HIV nationally and limited access to resources, thousands of children contract HIV from their mother every year in…
Since its inception in 1994, the MAC AIDS Fund has contributed millions to support innovative and effective organizations around the world pursuing HIV outreach efforts. The organization seeks to address social determinants affecting the HIV/AIDS epidemic such as stigma, sexual violence, domestic abuse, racism, and poverty. In collaboration with MAC Cosmetics, the fund donates the…
Guatemala, Central America’s largest country, accounts for almost one-sixth of the entire region’s HIV-positive population. As of 2007, an estimated 59,000 people are living with HIV in the country, and 3,900 deaths have occurred due to AIDS. Given this, TeachAids has recently expanded its efforts in Guatemala with the partnership of the United States Peace…
The Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) recently presented the TeachAids animations as part of the 2011 EARCOS Teacher Conference in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. The Teacher Conference was hosted by the East Asia Regional Council of Schools, an organization of 120 schools in East Asia aimed at fostering greater access to expertise…
Over the last many months, Dr. Tsering Wangchuk, a resident Medical Officer, has been conducting a number of TeachAids education sessions to promote HIV and AIDS education among thousands of Tibetan refugees. Dr. Wangchuk works intimately with the Tibetan Tsojhe Khangsar Charity Hospital, which serves as the main hospital for the largest Tibetan refugee settlement in…
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has awarded TeachAids an additional $34,000 grant to support our development, research, and expansion efforts in Botswana. Since our collaboration with Former President Festus Mogae in 2009, TeachAids has partnered with the Botswana Ministry of Education, Barclay’s Bank, SPICE, Stepping Stones, Yahoo!, and UNICEF to implement an initiative to…
TeachAids has partnered with KnowledgeBeat in order to provide basic HIV/AIDS education to youth living in Zambia. With funding from President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) grant, KnowledgeBeat promotes preventive behaviors among children and adolescents to mitigate a national HIV prevalence of 17 percent. TeachAids animated tutorials are being used as part of KnowledgeBeat’s…
Nestled in the heart of Kanchipuram District, in the northeast state of Tamil Nadu, dozens of young learners gathered to watch the TeachAids animations and learn about critical HIV/AIDS education during the Rising Star Outreach health seminar. Using a large white wall as their canvas, the 7th, 8th, and 9th graders watched the Indian animated…
TeachAids has been selected as the beneficiary for Sanskriti’s 2011 annual multicultural benefit show, Rhythms. We would like to thank the organization for supporting our outreach and education efforts, particularly in South Asia. Stanford University’s primary South Asian undergraduate organization, Sanskriti maintains over six hundred group members from the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty populations. The…
