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July 26-27, 2017 | Vancouver, Canada

WORLD CONFERENCE ON STDs, STIs & HIV/AIDS

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t is commonly agreed that to annihilate the level of HIV

infection, prevention instruction must take place at an early

age. Schools are the obvious and easy target when designing

to reach young people. However, while many countries

have adopted an education series and support initiatives,

the problem persists. This presentation will highlight a

study within Uganda specifically targeting Head Teachers.

Using ordinal logistic and Rasch scaling, this study utilized

the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring

Educational Quality (SACMEQ)

data to predict the strength

and direction of the associations between school and

community-based initiatives and the perceived risk of

HIV infection reported by headteachers. Findings indicate

community and school-based HIV/AIDS awareness and

school based HIV/AIDS support significantly predict the odds

of perceived risk of HIV/AIDS infection. Socio-demographic

and contextual factors confound some of the associations.

The presentation will explore the ways that the education

sector can play a bigger role through the education of its

faculty and administrators in addition to students.

Speaker Biography

Linda Serra Hagedorn is Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs, International Pro-

grams, Student Services, Diversity, and Community in the College of Human Sciences

and Professor in the School of Education at Iowa State University. She is a prominent re-

searcher in the area of community college student success with over 200 publications

and presentations. As the Director of International Programs at Iowa State, she is also

highly involved in international education. Dr. Hagedorn has extensive international ex-

perience beginning with her initial work in Vietnam as a Fulbright Specialist at AnGiang

University (2003). She subsequently has been a researcher and collaborator in China,

Indonesia, Russia, Korea, Spain and Vietnam. She is on the advisory board of interna-

tional universities in both China and Iran. As the past president of the Association for

the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) and Vice President of the American Educational

Research Association (AERA), Dr. Hagedorn has a rich history of leadership.

Linda Serra Hagedorn

Lowa State University, USA

Combatting HIV/AIDS at the school level: Lessons learned form a pilot in Ugandan schools