Myanmar-UNICEF Country Programme of Cooperation 2001-2005

School-Based Healthy Living and HIV/AIDS Prevention Education (SHAPE) was initiated jointly by the Ministry of Education of the Government of Myanmar and UNICEF in 1997. SHAPE is a life skills project with a emphasis on prevention of HIV/AIDS and its related problems of STI and drug abuse.

SHAPE implementation began in 30 townships during the 1998/99 school year and was expanded to 30 more townships in the two years that followed. Now SHAPE is being implemented in 104 townships. This assessment focused only upon the initial townships where results would be more apparent.