The role and effectiveness of School-based Extra-Curricular Interventions on children's health and HIV related behaviour: the case study of Soul Buddyz Clubs Programme in South Africa.

Background: HIV education targeting children and adolescents is a key component of HIV prevention. This is especially important in the context of increasing HIV prevalence rates among adolescents and young people. The authors sought to examine the role and effectiveness of an extra-curricular school based programme, Soul Buddyz Clubs (SBC) on HIV knowledge, attitudes, behaviours and biomedical outcomes.