Russia/Eurasia: Russia
HIV/AIDS Education Program: Healthy Russia – In response to the high rate of sexual transmission of HIV among youth, this program for 10th and 11th grade students – implemented with the Ministry of Education – focuses on HIV prevention through safe sexual behavior choices. Lessons within the curriculum also help students develop important life skills. This program builds upon the lessons in the Useful Habits, Skills, and Choices program offered in the 8th and 9th grades.
Russian Federation: Mitigating HIV/AIDS – Comparable in content to the Healthy Russia Program, this program also targets vocational schools, but also incorporates training and educating school nurses, health care workers and other organizations working with adolescent health programs, especially with sexually transmitted infections.
HIV/AIDS Education Program: Vocational Schools – This program is the first HIV/AIDS prevention and education curriculum prepared for vocational schools. It consists of preventive education guidelines for teachers of vocational schools and colleges, encouraging youth to practice safe behavior skills using interactive teaching activities. This curriculum also promotes tolerance toward people living with AIDS.
Timeline
| 1989 |
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In response to the worst train accident in Soviet history, HOPE volunteers and staff trained counterparts in the newest techniques in the care of burn victims at Children’s Hospital #9 in Moscow |
| 1996 |
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Project HOPE completes renovation of space within the surgical wing of Children’s Hospital No. 9 for the establishment of an intermediate burn care unit, a skin bank, clinic rooms, laboratories, and a library as well as the upgrading of existing facilities. Two programs established as a result: Russia’s first burn nursing education program and first biomedical engineering laboratory. Professional exchange programs with Western facilities are also established |
| 1997 |
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Drug prevention school-based; also begin a Health Care Management project |
| 2001 |
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Program for Training for Junior Oncologists begins |
| 2004 |
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HIV/AIDS school based program ongoing |
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