The Lagos State Ministry of Education in collaboration with Action HealthIncorporated organized a dissemination meeting for stakeholders in the education sector on 15 June 2010 at Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, Alausa, Ikeja.

The LSMoE amongst other implementing state in Nigeria has the additionaldistinction of being the state where the longest running systematic impactevaluation of classroom teaching of the Family Life and HIV Education (FLHE) has been carried out from 2003-2009 conducted by Philliber Research Associates, an external evaluation consultant from USA, in collaboration withAHI and the Lagos State MoE.

The impact evaluation was integrated from the outset of the programme into its basic design and implementation starting withthe formative research and needs assessment conducted in 2002.

The findings from the 5-year evaluation of the Family Life and HIV Education curriculum implementation in Lagos State public junior secondary schools suggest stronglythat it is having a positive impact on the benefiting students especially since those who were exposed to the curriculum responded more positively than anearlier unexposed SSS1 cohort around; (a) knowledge of sexuality and reproductive health issues; (b) gender equitable attitudes; (c) the ability to sayno to sexual intercourse if asked by someone they liked; (d) boys being less likelyto pressure girls to have sex with them and; (e) girls’ ability to say no to boys in intimate situations.