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Drawing AIDS: Tanzanian teachers picture the pandemic. 
Implications for re-curriculation of teacher education 

programmes

LESLEY WOOD
North-West University

NAYDENE DE LANGE
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

KITILA MKUMBO
University of Dar Es Salaam

In this article, we explain how we engaged teachers in creating their own representations of HIV and AIDS 
in Tanzania as a starting point for re-curriculation of the undergraduate teacher education programme. 
We employed a qualitative design, using visual methodologies, to encourage 29 in-service teachers to 
draw their perceptions about HIV and AIDS in Tanzania, and to explain their drawing in a short narrative. 
Thematic analysis of the drawings revealed that, while teachers are aware of the social injustices that 
fuel the pandemic, they do not envision themselves as having much influence for social change of learner 
attitudes and behaviour. The discussion of the findings, compared to and recontexualised by relevant 
literature, leads us to argue for the need to engage teachers in participatory research to find contextually 
appropriate ways to conceptualise and practise HIV and AIDS education. The recommendations we offer 
have relevance not only for Tanzania, but for the entire sub-Saharan African region.

Keywords: HIV and AIDS education, research for social change, participatory research, critical 
pedagogy, visual methodologies, teacher education, Tanzania

Introduction
Childhood in Tanzania and other sub-Saharan African countries is most often characterised by poverty, 
which increases vulnerability to a host of risks, including HIV and AIDS (Githinji, 2009). Estimates show 
that 17% of the child population in Tanzania aged between 0 and 14 years are vulnerable to HIV infection, 
poverty and associated threats to well-being, with 5% characterised as most vulnerable (Kaare, 2005; 
Lindeboom, Leach, Mamdani & Kilama, 2006). Research suggests that youth prefer to seek information 
on sexuality and HIV from teachers and turn to them for care and support (Zisser & Francis, 2006). Yet 
teachers in Tanzania are hampered in this respect by a lack of formal training in addressing HIV and AIDS 
issues, as well as by social and cultural constraints which tend to foster stigma and impede open discussion 
of the pandemic (Mkumbo, 2010; Wood, 2009). The need for effective teacher professional development 
in HIV and AIDS education is, therefore, a pressing matter at both pre- and in-service level.

In this article, we report on the first stage of a larger action research project undertaken to begin 
the process of re-curriculation at one university in Tanzania. In keeping with the participatory and 
collaborative nature of action research (Piggot-Irvine, 2012), it was necessary to begin by generating data 
to answer our initial research question: How do teachers perceive and interpret the pandemic in Tanzania 
and what do they think their role might be in mitigating its impact on the lives of learners? An important 
assumption of our research paradigm is that teachers can play an important role in influencing social 
change through their capacity to guide the development of learner cognitive, affective and behavioural 
responses to the pandemic.



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Contextual background of the study
The behaviouristic, life skills-based, abstain/be faithful/condomise (ABC) approaches that have been the 
basis for most of the curriculum interventions in sub-Saharan Africa (HEAIDS, 2010a) have not been very 
successful in bringing about behavioural change (Baxen & Breidlid, 2009; James, Reddy, Ruiter, McCauley 
& Van den Borne, 2006; Nzioka & Ramos, 2008) and teachers, as a rule, have not been consulted in the 
design of these programmes (Clarke, 2008) or received training and support to enable them to comfortably 
and effectively teach HIV and AIDS content (Tiendrebeogo, Meijer & Engelberg, 2003). We believe that 
one of the reasons for this is that they tend to target individual behaviour, rather than focus on the social, 
cultural, economic and political factors that create a fertile terrain for the incubation and transmission of 
the virus as advocated by more recent approaches (see, for example, Baxen, Wood & Austin, 2011; Chege, 
2006; De Lange, 2008; HEAIDS, 2010b).

One of the criticisms of teacher education in Tanzania (Mkumbo, 2009) is that it tends to emphasise 
theoretical orientation with limited opportunity to actually translate knowledge into practice. Teachers are 
thus required to learn how to teach “on the job”. Furthermore, the teacher training approach in Tanzania 
tends to still be teacher-centred (Mkumbo, 2009). As such, the current approach of teacher training 
in Tanzania is arguably unsuited for sexuality and HIV and AIDS education, which calls for student-
centredness and participatory teaching methodologies (HEAIDS, 2010).

The provision of HIV and AIDS education in schools in Tanzania is guided by the Guidelines for 
implementing HIV/AIDS and life-skills education programmes in schools (Ministry of Education and 
Culture, 2004). According to these, the content of HIV and AIDS education should reflect two major 
elements; provide basic information and facts about the transmission and prevention of HIV and STI, 
and promote responsible sexual behaviours, including delaying the age of sexual debut and practising 
protected sex.

The Guidelines stipulate that HIV/AIDS and STI preventive education should be integrated into the 
core curriculum through Science and Social Studies for primary schools, Biology and Civics for ordinary 
secondary school, and General Studies and Biology for advanced secondary school. A recent content 
analysis study (Mkumbo, 2009) indicated that only a small proportion of possible sexuality and HIV and 
AIDS education-related topics are covered in the Tanzanian national school curriculum. Besides being 
too few, the sexuality education-related topics in the national school curriculum appear to be disorganised 
and scattered across the four subjects to the extent that they can hardly be said to constitute a meaningful 
sexuality and HIV and AIDS education programme.

Studies have also shown that, although teachers in Tanzania support the provision of sexuality and 
HIV and AIDS education in schools, the majority of them express discomfort and feel incompetent to 
deliver such content (Mkumbo, 2010). We, therefore, conclude that the current approach to HIV and AIDS 
education in Tanzania needs to be revised.

Theoretical framing
There is no one “magic bullet” (Peabody & Cairns, 2008: 1) that will decrease HIV prevalence. However, 
the importance of social justice and human rights issues in addressing HIV and AIDS was highlighted 
at the 2008 AIDS conference in Mexico City. Although social change is a dynamic and unpredictable 
process, involving many different actors and usually not able to be transferred from one context to another 
(Ogden, 2008), teachers could have a significant contribution to make towards HIV prevention if they are 
able to contextualise HIV and AIDS education within the social challenges of their specific communities 
(Boler, 2003).

Many teachers choose their profession, because they want to make a difference (Stiegelbauer, 1992). 
Yet, in practice, teachers tend to believe they occupy relatively powerless positions, hampered by a lack 
of resources and decision-making power (Price & Valli, 2005: 58). They are inclined to forget that, to the 
learner, they are not only a source of (usually) unquestioned and unchallenged knowledge, but are also role 
models whose attitudes, values and behaviour have tremendous influence to shape the same in learners 
(Martino, 2008). Teachers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices are critical in shaping both the formal and 



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informal curricula in schools (Hoadley & Jansen, 2009). Research has demonstrated that teachers have the 
ability to shape and influence learners’ ways of thinking and responding to the pandemic (James-Traore, 
Finger, Ruland & Savariaud, 2004). Although the capability of the teacher as an agent of social change has 
been criticised (Lane, Lacefield-Parachini & Isken, 2003; Maylor, 2009), it is important to acknowledge 
the inherent power that teachers wield over the cognitive and value formations of learners (Bennell, 2004; 
Villegas & Lucas, 2002). We are not advocating that all teachers become radical social and political 
activists, but that they should at least become aware of how they can contribute to influencing how learners 
come to know, and hopefully embody, socially just ways of being. Given the role of social injustices in 
driving the pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa (Muthukrishna, 2009), we argue that a critical, emancipatory 
pedagogical approach (Freire, 2003) to HIV and AIDS education is, therefore, needed. Such an approach 
would enable teachers to shift from a view of HIV and AIDS education that is static, compartmentalised 
and predictable (Freire, 2003) towards one that acknowledges the dynamic, holistic and unpredictable 
nature of how the pandemic plays out in society.

However, it is vital that education concerning social justice issues and the possibility of addressing 
them is embedded in a local context. Rights that are recognised as universal, such as equality for women, 
are often difficult to implement in societies where local conditions and cultural biases hamper their 
acceptance (De Cock, Mbori-Ngacha & Marum, 2002). What is regarded as social justice in the eyes of 
the Western world leaders and global donors may, in fact, be experienced as a threat in local populations 
(Stewart 2006; Benator, 2001). Our point of departure was, therefore, to engage with participants to help 
them explore how they, as teachers, perceive HIV and AIDS within their communities, with the aim of 
raising their awareness about personal bias, attitudes and behaviour which might negatively impact on 
their ability to implement HIV and AIDS education and fulfil their role as potential agents of change.

Methodology
We employed availability sampling (Grinnell & Unrau, 2005) to work with a group of 29 teachers 
(16 women and 13 men) who were enrolled in a Master’s in Education programme at the University of 
Dar es Salaam. Each teacher was requested to fill in a consent form, indicating his/her voluntary, informed 
consent to allow his/her data to be used for research purposes and assuring him/her of anonymity and 
confidentiality. We stressed that, should they become upset by any of the activities in the workshop, 
they could either speak to one of the researchers, who is a registered counsellor, or contact student 
counselling services.

Visual methodologies were chosen as a data collection tool to help the teachers reflect on their 
constructions of HIV and AIDS, since the creation of the visual representation of a topic and reflection on it 
is in itself an intervention that can bring about a shift in mindset and the beginning of a subsequent change 
in practice (Guillemin, 2004). Visual methodologies also encourage teacher engagement and deep thinking 
about social issues; promote dialogue and sharing; increase enjoyment and, therefore, participation and 
commitment to change, and provide a tool for taking action (Pithouse, De Lange, Mitchell, Moletsane, 
Olivier, Stuart, Van Laren & Wood, 2010). Drawing is one powerful strategy that can be used with all age 
groups to elicit opinions and beliefs and to generate discussion about the topic in question (Stuart, 2006). 
We asked the participating teachers to draw a picture in response to the following prompt, “Draw how you 
see HIV and AIDS in Tanzania”, and to explain their drawing by means of a caption and a short narrative. 
The participants then presented their drawings to the larger group which allowed us to facilitate critical 
discussion on their interpretations. The drawings, narratives and the transcript of the critical discussion were 
thematically analysed by the three researchers independently, before they met for a consensus discussion 
(Bogdan & Biklen, 2006; Merriam, 2009). Trustworthiness of the research process was enhanced by this 
independent coding and re-coding, by triangulation of researcher, by recontextualising the findings within 
literature (Poggenpoel, 1998), and by explaining the process in detail (Leedy & Ormrod, 2001).



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Discussion of findings
The data analysis of the drawings, accompanying written explanations and the discussion revealed that 
the participating teachers did recognise that the severity of the pandemic in Tanzania was closely linked 
to inherent social injustices, but that they did not consider themselves able to influence the situation. 
Three main themes emerged, which will be critically discussed in the following sections, with relation to 
relevant literature.

Theme 1: HIV and AIDS marginalises certain groups and renders them 
more vulnerable
Many of the drawings depicted women and children as being most affected by the pandemic. This is, of 
course, true for sub-Saharan contexts (United Republic of Tanzania, 2007) – 6.6% of women are infected, 
in comparison to 4.6% of men; 3.9% of young women aged between 15 and 24 are infected in comparison to 
1.7% of males in the same age group. However, the manner in which women and children were represented 
was cause for some concern about the potential stigmatising discourses evident in the drawings. Women 
were depicted as “victims”, unable to look after themselves. For example, the death of the economically 
active men in the community (drawing 3) resulted in women being widowed and, therefore, unable to 
support themselves or to contribute meaningfully to society. This notion of being “victims” was also 
depicted in drawing 10, where the caption read, “women are unable to protect themselves as they are 
dominated by men”. Men, however, could protect themselves, because they had knowledge on how the 
disease was transmitted. The explanation given for drawing 10 and comments in the discussion implied 
that the majority of the participants believed that education about how to prevent transmission is sufficient 
to stop the spread of HIV, and that women have the choice to decide whether to educate themselves or not. 
According to research, both of these beliefs are false (Kauffman, 2004; O’Sullivan, Harrison, Morrell, 
Monroe-Wise & Kubeka, 2006). Unless there is intervention to raise critical awareness and understanding 
of the complexity of human behaviour, this situation will remain undisrupted.

Figure 1: Selection of drawings to illustrate Theme 1

3. 6

In Tanzania HIV/AIDS is the most dangerous disease 
which leads to many deaths of people and leaves many 
orphans and widows. Therefore the diagram represents 
orphans and widows caused by death of HIV/AIDS

In Tanzania, women and children are the most 
affected people with HIV

Pregnant women/girls are affected mainly



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HIV/AIDS is a disaster in Tanzania. Tanzania without AIDS is possible.
Women are unable to protect themselves as they are dominated by men.

Theme 2: HIV and AIDS is closely linked to poverty
According to the drawings and the subsequent discussion, the teachers are aware that HIV and AIDS 
leads to loss of human resources which, in turn, ravages the economy, thereby increasing poverty and 
rendering people more vulnerable to HIV infection (Kimaryo, Okpaku, Githuku-Shongwe & Feeney, 
2004; UNAIDS, 2006). The gap between the rich and the poor (e.g. drawing 1) is a reality (TACAIDS, 
2008) in Tanzania, but the perceptions illustrated in the drawings could lead to reinforcing the notion that 
it is the poor who must bear the burden of HIV rather than believing that they have the potential to improve 
their circumstances. The “poor” are depicted as uneducated and confused (cf. question marks above their 
heads, drawing 1) victims of the pandemic. Their inability to help themselves is implicit in the way in 
which they have been depicted by the teachers, and a sense of othering is evident, since teachers portray 
themselves as part of the “educated” and “rich” communities. In drawing 2, the teacher has positioned 
herself (subconsciously perhaps) with the rich OECD countries by using the preposition “we” in this 
regard and “they” to refer to the poor sub-Saharan countries.

There is also evidence of an oversimplification of the pandemic, equating it only with poverty (e.g. 
drawing 2) and lack of education, negating the important social embeddedness of the pandemic (Baxen 
& Breidlid, 2009). Teachers’ perceptions, as depicted in the drawings, could promote a stigmatising 
discourse, stemming from misperceptions and a feeling that HIV and AIDS is not associated with teachers, 
but only with the “poor and uneducated” (drawing 1); that women are to blame for their own victimisation, 
because they do not take charge of their situation (drawing 10), and that AIDS originated with the youth 
(drawing 12), who have now infected adults. Such discourse is not uncommon among teachers in sub-
Saharan Africa (Wood & Webb, 2008).



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Figure 2: Selection of drawings to illustrate Theme 2

1 2 

HIV/AIDS is a threat in the society as a snake in the 
diagram above. We are living with it but the poorest 
are much threatened than the rich (non-educated and 
educated). However, collective effort from both the 
poor and the rich is required to defeat it.

Rich and powerful communities with small % of 
HIV infection “OECD” (we’re safe)

Poor communities affected with HIV (SSA) (they 
are not safe)

13 16

Loss of manpower in Tanzania form 1980s to 2009.
Indicates loss in economic status as deaths increase.

My name is …. What came in my mind is that HIV/
AIDS is the most dangerous disease which causes 
death to the people. This is due to the fact that it has 
no cure nor medicine to treat the disease.



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Theme 3: Teachers are silent on their role as agents of change
Several drawings indicated that the teachers primarily blamed the government for not taking action to 
improve the circumstances of the poor, including ensuring that education is available for all.

Figure 3: Drawings illustrating Theme 3

17 27

“Wait for a moment, you are too many, we cannot af-
ford to support you”
“Infected and affected people, we need our rights”.
Though the government and other non-governmen-
tal organisations receive money from other donors 
or well-wishers to support people living with HIV/
AIDS, there are no serious efforts made to help or 
provide treatment and other related needs and infor-
mation to the people as they require.

Children staying with their grandmother after their 
parents died from HIV AIDS.

Solution: Education: more education is needed, peo-
ple need to be conscientised to avoid new spread. 
Govt: assist the vulnerable groups.

14 19 

HIV AIDS kills women, men and children.  The 
transmission rate is growing very fast, because of 
lack of education and ignorance.  The government 
should ensure education on HIV AIDS is provided in 
each society so as to educate people on the impact of 
HIV AIDS in the society.

The symbol above shows that HIV and AIDS is dan-
gerous to the life of Tanzanians, especially people 
from 18-30 years.  So the government should take 
care of it so that we can reduce the spread of HIV 
and AIDS in Tanzania.



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While we agree that governments are socially responsible for providing adequate services, participants’ 
drawings suggest that they regard government as being solely responsible for educating and raising 
awareness about HIV and AIDS (cf. drawings 17, 14 and 19) and that such knowledge would suffice 
to curb the spread of HIV. None of the drawings or narratives explicitly stated that teachers themselves 
should educate the learners about HIV. Although drawing 27 acknowledged the importance of education, 
the participant did not mention that teachers were responsible for this education. Instead, the participants 
turned to “researchers” (drawing 11) and government to discover ways to reduce HIV infection, rather 
than stating that teachers are able to play a meaningful role in this. The drawings reveal a narrow and 
naïve understanding of HIV education, equating it with condom use (drawing 4); the promotion of “moral 
behaviour” by preaching the ABC message (drawings 15 and 16), and biomedical knowledge (drawings 
24, 27 and 28b).

Figure 4: Drawings depicting a narrow view of HIV and AIDS education

4 11 20 15 

Only 20% of the people 
do not know how to 
control HIV

As the years increased, the 
impact of HIV increased in 
the community. (on other 
side) – The government 
should educate the people; 
we need more researchers 
to investigate good ways 
of reducing the impact of 
HIV on our community.

In my picture it shows 
that girls are more af-
fected by boys by HIV, 
therefore there is a need 
to educate about it. 
Grandmother remains 
with children.

My drawing is about 
HIV/AIDS transmission 
through unpreventine 
(sic) sexual relation-
ships between male 
and female. Thereafter 
advice that it is possible 
to live in an HIV free 
zone by being faithful 
to your partner.



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HIV is being transmitted by many 
ways, including sexual intercourse. 
When you are doing sex with a 
victim of HIV you will get infected 
and when you sex with another 
person, you will transmit it and so 
the trend continues.

In Tanzania orphans suffer a lot, 
there are many who do not attend 
school, do not have homes and 
they are not sure whether they 
can have anything to eat. Some of 
the orphans engage in things they 
do not like because of the situa-
tion they are in. There are many 
cries in towns and villages as 
AIDS does not choose a specific 
place.

It is about a person who is very 
ill, he is in bed, cannot sit or talk. 
His family is crying. They think 
he is going to die soon. Also, be-
cause of the sick person the fam-
ily  members do not work, they 
stay with him, thus increasing 
poverty. Solution: it is important 
to give hope to the person and try 
to work hard instead of waiting 
for his death.

Implications of the findings
Based on our findings from this study, we are led to conclude that the participating teachers do have a limited 
and biased understanding of HIV and AIDS in Tanzania. They equate it with biomedical interventions, 
assuming that knowledge about the virus will help to curb the spread of HIV. Although there is awareness 
of the link between HIV and AIDS and social injustices, this is not regarded as something that they are 
able to influence, rather relying on government to take action. We tend to agree with Fullan (1993:5): “… 
teachers will never improve learning in the classroom … unless they also help improve conditions that 
surround the classroom”.

We, therefore, propose that teacher education curricula provide opportunities for teachers to engage 
in reflection and debate about their own epistemological and ontological understandings to deconstruct 
and reconstruct their own philosophies and theories on behavioural change towards a more socially just 
society. They need to learn how to develop teaching strategies that will enable them to engage learners 
in a similar process, leading to authentic learning rather than parrot-fashion repetition of facts about 
human rights and social justice. Social justice in education can be promoted by including service learning 
and community involvement requirements in a curriculum that centralises the vision for social justice 
(Duncan-Andrade, 2007), as well as by modelling and embodying values that promote social justice. We 
add our voices to the call made by other researchers (Baxen, Wood & Austin, 2011; HEAIDS, 2010) for 
a transformation in teacher education curricula to allow for the engagement of teachers with the political, 
social, cultural and economic contexts that give rise to social inequalities, so that they are in a position to 
“create effective pedagogical spaces” (Macedo, 2006: xii) for the integration and debate of such factors in 
their everyday interaction with learners. Given that there is no one solution to stemming the spread of the 



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virus, continual critique and disruption of existing social, cultural, economic and political ideologies and 
structures (Fine, 1994) needs to be woven into the fabric of the curriculum.

Conclusion
As Borrero (2009) admits, teacher education programmes can never offer all that is required to address 
social injustice. However, they can help the teacher develop a passion and vision for social justice and 
the skills of knowing how to engage with learners on these issues in pedagogically appropriate ways, 
offering opportunity for real engagement with regard to learning. In this article, we have shown how 
the use of a participatory visual methodology created a space for teachers and researchers to explore 
participant constructions of HIV. The data analysis reported on in this instance has alerted us to the need 
to engage with the participating teachers to raise their awareness about their potential role as agents of 
change. We are fully aware that our interpretation of the drawings cannot be taken as ‘truth’, and further 
exploration of how the participants envisage their contributions to HIV and AIDS education is necessary. 
Having the actual drawings in front of them will help facilitate such discussion and permit us to make our 
interpretation clear as a point of departure for further exploration.

This article has argued that teacher education should be founded in a critical paradigm, where the aim 
is to enable teachers to critically analyse the status quo and find ways to move towards a more just way of 
being (Perumal, 2009). If this is not the foundation of learning in university and schools, then education 
could become a tool for maintaining the status quo and perpetuating social injustices in society (Villegas 
& Lucas, 2002). In this age of AIDS, no one can afford to let this happen.

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