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Designed as a confidence builder, T2S was conceptualised to reduce some of the emotional and physical vulnerabilities many students experience on moving from primary to secondary school and from being seniors at their old schools to the most junior in the new. To overcome some of these vulnerabilities, the programme covers subjects such as drug awareness, bullying and conflict, STI prevention, human sexuality, and gender issues. Coping strategies are also offered for avoiding some of the negative pitfalls which can face the new school entrant.
General Objectives
An initiative of the National HIV/AIDS Commission, T2S aims to equip first formers with some necessary skills to successfully switch to their new school environments.
Beneficiaries
Children ages 11-12
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B.7 - Boys, girls, adolescents and young people
Guarantee for all boys, girls, adolescents and young people, without any form of discrimination, the chance to live a life free from poverty and violence, and to enjoy protection and exercise of their human rights, a range of opportunities and access to health, education and social protection.
B.11 - Education for sexuality
Ensure the effective implementation from early childhood of comprehensive sexuality education programmes, recognizing the emotional dimension of human relationships, with respect for the evolving capacity of boys and girls and the informed decisions of adolescents and young people regarding their sexuality, from a participatory, intercultural, gender-sensitive, and human rights perspective.
B.12 - Sexual health and reproductive health
Implement comprehensive, timely, good-quality sexual health and reproductive health programmes for adolescents and young people, including youth-friendly sexual health and reproductive health services with a gender, human rights, intergenerational and intercultural perspective, which guarantee access to safe and effective modern contraceptive methods, respecting the principles of confidentiality and privacy, to enable adolescents and young people to exercise their sexual rights and reproductive rights, to have a responsible, pleasurable and healthy sex life, avoid early and unwanted pregnancies, the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, and to take free, informed and responsible decisions regarding their sexual and reproductive life and the exercise of their sexual orientation.
D.38 - Prevention, timely detection and comprehensive treatment of HIV / AIDS and ITS
Promote the prevention and timely detection of and guarantee universal access to comprehensive treatment for HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections and eliminate the stigma and discrimination to which persons living with the virus are often subjected.