On April 19-21 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, took place an international conference entitled “HIV prevention and formation of healthy lifestyle in the education environment.”
The event was attended by representatives of Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kirgizstan and the Russian Federation. Azerbaijan was represented in the conference by Senior Consultant of Education and Out-of-School Establishments Department of the Ministry of Education Elnur Alizadeh, Project coordinator of UN Foundation Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria under the Ministry of Education Aysel Hajiyeva, head of the department of Institute for Educational Problems Pirali Aliyev, Biology teacher of school #248 of Baku, co-author of “Education based on life skills” tutorial Gulara Huseynova.
37 presentations were given at the conference held in eight sessions, which were divided to six groups.
Project Consultant of UNICEF Brian Dobson talked about the preparation process of the Education based on life skills’ project, and difficulties in this area. He also talked about the work done in other countries. Stressing the importance of experience gained in Azerbaijan, Macedonia and Moldova, he noted successes achieved due to the study of views of parents, teachers, representatives of health care and public via surveys.
Senior Consultant of Education and Out of School Establishments Department of the Ministry of Education Elnur Alizadeh gave a presentation entitled “General situation of education prevention in Azerbaijan” and also talked about works done in 2008-2010.
The role of prevention programs in forming the healthy lifestyle of adolescents and youth, provision of educational establishments with necessary tutorials and methodical materials and other issues were discussed during the conference. It was noted that international organizations, teaching personnel and health officials, parents should support these issues.
The conference was chaired by E. Alizadeh on the first day, Pirali Aliyev and Aysel Hajiyeva on the third and eighth days. Gulara Huseynova took part in the preparation of final resolution of the conference as a member of working group.
08.07.2015 - 16:52
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