A volume of materials for limited English-speaking native Lao-speaking students designed to supplement a high school health education course contains a series of chapters in English, with each page faced by a translation in Lao. The topics covered include a holistic approach to health and wellness, interpersonal relations, emotions, stress, suicide, the American conception of death and funerals, the family unit, family violence, rape and acquaintance rape, chemical substances and their pharmacological effects, alcohol and its effects, human sexuality, the reproductive system, menstruation, conception and fetal development, the birth process, birth defects, premarital pregnancy, sexual variations, and sexually transmitted diseases. A brief bibliography is included. (MSE)