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Sports and Counselling
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- Title: Sports and Counselling: Tools for Social Mobilisation in HIV/AIDS
- Author(s): Akolade Olubunmi Lapite, Victor A Ogunleye
- Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
- Collection: Common Ground Research Networks
- Series: The Learner
- Journal Title: The International Journal of Learning: Annual Review
- Keywords: Hiv/Aids, Sports, Counselling and Social Mobilization
- Volume: 15
- Issue: 11
- Date: December 06, 2008
- ISSN: 1447-9494 (Print)
- ISSN: 1447-9540 (Online)
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9494/CGP/v15i11/46011
- Citation: Lapite, Akolade Olubunmi, and Victor A Ogunleye. 2008. "Sports and Counselling: Tools for Social Mobilisation in HIV/AIDS." The International Journal of Learning: Annual Review 15 (11): 171-176. doi:10.18848/1447-9494/CGP/v15i11/46011.
- Extent: 6 pages
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Abstract
HIV/AIDS has become a real disaster that is ravaging human lives around the globe. The realization of the fact that sports and counseling are some of the greatest avenues to reach out to a large population of people that make it an important instrument for mobilization of Nigerian youth against the spread or HIV/AIDS. Also, various social mobilization strategies and techniques are discussed in relation to sports and counselling which were focused on the control of HIV/AIDS. In this paper, the preponderance of HIV/AIDS was examined in sport participation using counseling as social technique. The vulnerability to HIV/AIDS infection comprises physical, biological, social, cultural, psychological and economical factors were discussed.
