AIDS education in Tanzania: focus on school children.

Tanzania is one of the countries most severely affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. A number of local AIDS education efforts have been launched over the past decade, several of which have yielded measurable, positive outcomes. Despite these successes, many barriers to effective dissemination of AIDS information exist, and large population groups still lack basic information on how to protect themselves from infection. Although effective school-based AIDS education programs are available, these have yet to be implemented consistently and persistently throughout the public school system, where the majority of adolescents can be reached.