MELAKUKAN PEMBERDAYAAN PADA REMAJA DALAM UPAYA PROMOTIF DAN PREVENTIF HIV/AIDS DI DESA PALUH SIBAJI

Abstract

Lack of appropriate and relevant information about HIV/AIDS, and supported by the inquisitive attitude that teenagers have causing them to enter into a population behaving at high risk. In addition, the problem of HIV / AIDS in Adolescents not only have a bad impact physically, but can also affect mental health, emotions, economic circumstances, and long-term social well-being long. This does not only affect the youth themselves, but also to families, communities and nations. Cases of HIV transmission among adolescents of course also can not be separated from the lack of knowledge of adolescents about the disease HIV/AIDS. Teenagers do not understand how important it is to maintain health reproduction and prevention of free sex. Increasing knowledge of teenagers This can be done by involving friends of his age. One effective method to increase knowledge among adolescents is peer education. Peers education can increase learning independence, formulate goals, plan strategy, identify learning resources, utilize media, take the subject thoughts, express opinions, conclude learning outcomes, convey ideas and measure learning success. Peer education/peer group learning learning made in one study group so that students will continue to be motivated to interact from start to finish. Community service activities This is done with the aim of optimizing the knowledge of young students regarding prevention of HIV-AIDS through peer education methods, so students or youth be able to apply HIV-AIDS prevention in accordance with existing knowledge they already got. Stages of activities in the implementation of community service this is a site survey, setting targets and outreach, preparation of materials and activity needs, and the implementation of activities consisting of pre-test implementation, delivery of material and implementation of the post test. In general the implementation of activities This community service can run well and in accordance with the targets. The expected output in this community service can be achieved by: indicators of increased level of knowledge            of         adolescentsa   bouthow          to         prevent                        HIV-AIDS.