In 2007, to coordinate with the HIV Harm Reduction Pilot Programme for IDUs, the DOH asked the MOE to establish drug abuse and HIV prevention as a learning indicator in the Health and Physical Education programme in the curriculum guidelines for Grades 1 through 9. For high schools, sessions on drug abuse prevention and control and on HIV prevention were incorporated into the course guidelines on Health and Nursing and Citizens and Society; these enable youth in the formal educational system to learn how to prevent the spread of the disease.