Health Promotion Intervention

Health education is an integral part of overarching health promotion interventions that do take part in numerous countries in different settings such as schools, workplaces, clinics and communities that encompass topic such as eating healthily, physical activity, misuse of drugs and alcohol prevention, mental health, safety and HIV/AIDS prevention. People involved in the dissemination of such information and activities are usually perceived as health educators, who are usually dedicated, hardworking and display a lot of enthusiasm (WHO, 2012). Notwithstanding the overall good initiatives, there are inevitably challenges as regards to effective engagement practice and how meaningful the education can contribute to health well being and lead

and McCarthy, C., 2013). A stall was set up in the quad targeting primarily the student population but not exclusively to raise awareness on HIV/AIDS and it s prevention. Selected information was on display including practical tools that could be used to prevent coming into contact with HIV such as use of a condom and how it is used. Each individual purpose/remit at the stall was to actively invite and engage the audience and /or passersby to get free information on the subject on display and answering any questions on the

Of the available health education models and theories, we favoured the Beattie (1991) intervention which took the health persuasion approach as we were targeting individuals that passed by the stall for health information. Given the time constraints, the diffusion approach process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of the student population suited the event. Within the HIV/AIDs education field, the currently available tool that is effective to accompany the information and advice is use of a condom, printed material such as leaflets and basic instructions o how to use such tool (Perry.HB, Zullinger.R, Rogers.MM, 2014).The health fair also displayed eye catching messages, red ribbons, a World AIDS day symbol to remind people about HIV/AIDS awareness and information on statistics both for the UK and worldwide. Some of the resources used were sensitivity to students’ beliefs and cultural norms but nonetheless the intended message was put across (Barrera Jr, M., Castro, F.G., Strycker, L.A. & Toobert, D.J., 2013).Although Africa and Asia usually come up with infection rates of HIV at a high scale than the UK, the problem is still present. There have been changes in sexual behaviour in the last 10 years, number of concurrent partners on the increase, risk behaviour among men who have sex with