DB Click: HIV/AIDS
November 2009
For people seeking to address HIV/AIDS issues and opportunities.
DB CLICK: HIV/AIDS updates you on recent HIV/AIDS initiatives including programme activities, awards, evaluation and research results, networks, books, other materials, planning ideas, change theories and other information recently placed on The Communication Initiative website.
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1. Can Tru Love Withstand the Test – Africa
Broadcast since January 2008, «Can Tru Love Withstand the Test» is a radio mini-drama series produced by the African Broadcast Media Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (ABMP) as part of its «It Begins with YOU» campaign, which is designed to communicate information related to HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, gender equality, and healthy lifestyles. The series of 90-second episodes is accompanied by a producers’ guide to encourage media to produce additional, complementary programming on the issues raised in the drama series…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/295657/347
2. Grassroot Soccer HIV/AIDS Education Program: An Intervention in Zimbabwe: Evaluation Report
This is an evaluation of the Grassroot Soccer HIV/AIDS Education Program, launched by Grassroot Soccer Foundation (GRSF) in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The programme aimed to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS by training adult soccer players to educate at-risk youth about HIV/AIDS. Fourteen locally and nationally known soccer players, recognised role models for these students, were trained to be educators…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/278530/347
3. Integrating Gender into HIV/AIDS Programmes in the Health Sector: Tool to Improve Responsiveness to Women’s Needs
Created by the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Department of Gender, Women and Health (GWH), this operational tool is designed to raise awareness of how gender inequalities affect women’s access to and experience of HIV/AIDS programmes and services. Designed especially for programme managers and health-care providers, it offers practical actions on how to address or integrate gender into specific types of HIV/AIDS programmes and services. WHO contends that HIV programmes that take into consideration the social, economic, cultural, and political realities of clients better inform and empower clients, improve quality of care and access to and use of services, and enhance health equity…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/304692/347
4. Addressing Multiple and Concurrent Partnerships in Southern Africa: Developing Guidance for Bold Action
This report emerges from a 2-day meeting on «Addressing MCP in Southern Africa: Developing Guidance for Bold Actions.» The meeting brought together approximately 40 representatives from various organisations working in the southern Africa region with the aim of establishing a common vision and agenda to guide interventions and strategies addressing multiple and concurrent partnerships (MCP)…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/304725/347
5. LOVE Condoms Campaign – Global
The United States (US)-based community health organisation AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has developed a worldwide advocacy campaign with the purpose of placing the condom at the front line of effective global AIDS prevention and control. The LOVE Condoms Campaign is working to scale up global support for renewed condom usage by distributing 10 million WHO-approved condoms free of charge globally…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/301675/347
6. HIV/AIDS in Namibia: Behavioral and Contextual Factors Driving the Epidemic
This report, produced by MEASURE Evaluation and USAID/Namibia for the Ministry of Health and Social Services in Namibia, identifies and describes what current evidence indicates are the main behavioural and contextual factors that are driving the HIV epidemic in Namibia. The report is intended to assist in the development of a national prevention strategy for combating the HIV/AIDS epidemic…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/300461/347
7. Strengthening HIV and AIDS Response Partnerships (SHARP) – Uganda
Initiated in May 2004 and completed in 2009, Strengthening HIV and AIDS Response Partnerships (SHARP) is a 5-year project by Academy for Educational Development (AED) which strived to reduce new HIV infections and mitigate the effect of AIDS by designing interventions for those most at risk and the most affected, and by strengthening HIV/AIDS response partnerships among government, civil society, private sector, and other stakeholders. The project included research, capacity building, and clinical interventions with public, private, and non-governmental organisations…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/301104/347
8. Clipping HIV/AIDS – Tonga
In 2009, the Tonga-based youth organisation On the Spot launched a project to create a series of television public service announcements (PSAs) designed to dispel myths about HIV/AIDS as well as to inform, support, and encourage viewers to understand the importance of: the local, regional, and global realities of HIV/AIDS; individual responsibility; knowledge of the ABCs (abstinence, be faithful, use condoms) to combat HIV/AIDS; behaviour and attitudes that promote healthy lifestyles, relationships, and communities; and trust and confidence in the services available…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/303010/347
9. Kicking AIDS Out: Through Movement Games and Sports Activities
This book is a collection of methods, aids, ideas, and experiences of how coaches can confront HIV and AIDS in and through sports. The central issue discussed is the strategy for adapting and creating movement games to help participants learn to develop «Kicking AIDS Out» (KAO) skills through a combination of sport and life skills. It is designed to promote volunteer work among young people and explains how to combine sport skills and life skills…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/289005/347
10. Media Action Plan (MAP) on HIV/AIDS and Gender – Angola, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
The Media Action Plan (MAP) on HIV/AIDS and Gender, coordinated by the Southern African Editors’ Forum (SAEF) with Gender Links, Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), and The Gender and Media Southern Africa (GEMSA) Network, is a three-year project developed to devise tools for and provide support to Southern African media houses to develop and adopt HIV/AIDS and gender policies in newsrooms. The aim of the programme, which was launched in 2005, was for 80% of all newsrooms to have such policies in place by the end of 2008…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/271332/347
11. Something for Something Love Campaign – Uganda
Launched by the Young Empowered and Healthy (YEAH) advocacy group, in collaboration with the Health Communication Partnership (HCP), the «Something for Something» awareness campaign was created by and for young people, to raise awareness and dialogue around transactional sex. This nationwide campaign complemented the Rock Point 256 drama series that was aired on 10 local radio stations beginning in August 2005. The campaign included production and dissemination of a wide range of materials to reinforce the «Something for Something Love» messages, including radio spots, comic books, posters, fact sheets, branded exercise books, billboards, and street pole posters…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/268431/347
12. Pakistan: Sex Workers Speak Out on HIV
This article from PlusNews, Global HIV/AIDS News and Analysis, discusses the National Consultation on HIV and Sex Work meeting in the city of Karachi, Pakistan, in which female Pakistani sex workers were given a chance to talk about the difficulties of protecting themselves from HIV. The meeting was a result of fears that a concentrated epidemic among injecting drug users could spread to female sex workers and other high-risk groups, such as men who have sex with men…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/302003/347
13. aids2031 Examines Long-Wave Phenomena
This article examines aids2031, a consortium of institutions and individuals who came together in 2007 to examine what the world has learned about the AIDS response in its first quarter-century. Aids2031 has engaged thousands of stakeholders, including people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA), scientists, healthcare professionals, social and political scientists, and communication and information technology professionals in an effort to create an «Agenda for the Future» that will chart what can be done to change the face of the pandemic by the year 2031…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/302135/347
14. Bridging the Gaps: Improving Decentralized HIV Services in Panama
From «The Voices from the Capacity Project» series, this article discusses the provision of HIV-related services in Panama through an interview with a nurse in Colón, Panama, at a hospital that took part in the project. The Capacity Project was a five-year programme, ending in 2009. The project worked on the decentralisation of HIV services by helping national HIV programmes in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Panama to improve performance and supervision systems to address their challenges…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/302180/347
15. A Strategic Approach: HIV & AIDS and Education
This publication offers a strategic vision of the role that education must play in addressing HIV and AIDS. It focuses on decision-makers and practitioners in the education sector, as well as colleagues who work on HIV and AIDS responses in other sectors. It identifies key priorities for responding to HIV and AIDS through education, puts forward two central objectives for education responses, and outlines how the response should be tailored to the local epidemiological situation and other factors…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/302566/347
Please VOTE in our HIV/AIDS poll:
From your regional context and perspective, which should be the priority focus for social norm change related to HIV/AIDS prevention?
A focus on…
* Male Circumcision
* One Sexual Partner
* Condom Use
* Knowledge of One’s HIV Status
* Stigma
* Rights
VOTE and COMMENT at http://www.comminit.com/en/node/287727/347
RESULTS as of November 23:
29%: Condom Use
22%: One Sexual Partner
20%: Knowledge of One’s HIV Status
16%: Stigma
9%: Rights
4%: Male Circumcision
16. Cuido mi Vida, Cuido tu Vida [I Care for my Life, I Care for your Life] – Dominican Republic
«Cuido Mi Vida, Cuido Tu Vida» is a 10-month HIV and AIDS peer education project of Alianza Solidaria Para La Lucha Contra El VIH/SIDA (ASOLSIDA) and La Red Jóvenes Por Siempre (JPS) located in the Dominican Republic. This youth theatrical project is developing a presentation about risks of contracting HIV, infection prevention, sexual responsibility, and vulnerability. The performance- and discussion-based communication project is focused on an audience of approximately 1,500 young people 13 – 24 years old through the work of ASOLSIDA, a community-based organisation of persons affected and infected by HIV and AIDS with the mission of forming leadership based upon equality, justice, and solidarity, and JPS, a network of youth that designs projects and programmes that are youth-directed…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/302630/347
17. Multiple Concurrent Partnerships in a Sub-Saharan Setting: Biases in Self-Reported Measures and Their Implications for HIV/AIDS Prevention
According to the abstract of this research done in Likoma, a small island in the northern region of Lake Malawi in the country of Malawi: «…We use sexual network data from a small island on Lake Malawi, in conjunction with a simple model of HIV transmission, to assess whether self-reports of partnership concurrency possibly underestimate the contribution of MCP to HIV epidemics…»
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/304740/347
18. Talking HIV & AIDS to Youth! – Samoa
From January through December 2009, the Samoa AIDS Foundation (SAF) is carrying out a programme designed to prevent HIV infection by reaching out to out-of-school youth in public places in urban Apia, Samoa. This HIV prevention intervention revolves around the peer-to-peer strategy, whereby young people reach out to other young people to talk about issues that are conventionally sensitive. It was developed by a group of SAF peer educators who are also members of the theatrical group «Poula»…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/302748/347
19. Testing Millions – Global
In advance of World AIDS Day 2008, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) launched this annual effort to facilitate the provision of free HIV tests to millions of people around the world throughout the months of November and December. AHF seeks to do so by mobilising a worldwide coalition of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), local and national governments, international relief agencies, faith-based organisations, medical providers, civil and corporate society, and the media to make a commitment to find ways to increase access to testing through streamlined and large-scale testing events, group pre-test counselling, a variety of rapid testing products, and increased referrals to care or antiretroviral treatment (ART)…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/303649/347
20. Condom Commandos – Documentary
This is a documentary film that follows the implementation of «Stepping Stones», a methodology which is used in a wide number of African countries to communicate behaviour change messages around gender equality, prevention of HIV and AIDS, and related issues. The documentary was shot in Angola with members of the Angolan Armed Forces, as well as the surrounding «at risk» community. It is designed to be used as an advocacy and sensitisation tool for issues concerning gender equality, behaviour change, and culture in relation to HIV and AIDS…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/269929/347
21. Joint Action for Results: UNAIDS Outcome Framework 2009-2011
This Outcome Framework is designed to optimise partnerships between the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Secretariat and the funding organisations that cosponsor international work on HIV/and AIDS, with the goal of universal access to prevention and treatment. The Outcome Framework, which builds upon the UNAIDS Strategic Framework (2007-2011), is constructed to guide future investment and help with the impact on programmes caused by the challenges of the global financial and economic crisis…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/303915/347
22. The Potentials of Sport as a Tool for a Rights-Based Approach to HIV/AIDS
This paper explores how sport can be used as a rights-based tool that can facilitate access on the part of vulnerable youth – male and female – to HIV/AIDS information, education, care, and treatment. According to the author, sport has been identified as a new and important resource for reaching youth whose prior concerns and interests are not necessarily how to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/285621/347
23. Understanding Men’s Health and Use of Violence: Interface of Rape and HIV in South Africa
This report, published by the Gender and Health Research Unit of the Medical Research Council (MRC), is based on research that sought to understand the prevalence of rape perpetration in a random sample of community-based adult men, to understand factors associated with rape perpetration, and to describe intersections between rape, physical intimate partner violence, and HIV. The authors argue that high levels of rape are rooted in negative conceptions of masculinity and that the problem cannot solely be addressed through criminal prosecution, but requires a broader approach that addresses these conceptions of manhood…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/302538/347
24. Impact Data – Valvula de Escape [Escape Valve] – Mexico
To address gaps in knowledge about HIV prevention and family planning, the United States (US)-based Population Media Center (PMC) collaborated with CORA (Centro de Orientación para Adolescentes) to develop and produce a radio call-in show for youth, called Válvula de Escape, Un Espacio Sin Censura. Sexo Netas y Preguntas. («Escape Valve, a Space without Censorship. Discussion and Questions about Sex.») It was broadcast on Radio Mexiquense in Toluca (Mexico State) during 2007, and, in order to gauge the success of the show, a survey of 300 students was conducted in the fall of 2007 at schools in one of the broadcast areas…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/302702/347
25. Multiple Concurrent Partnerships and the Church: Assessing the Attitudes and Perceptions of Community Leaders of Faith
This report shares findings from a survey that sought to access churchgoers’ perceptions about multiple concurrent partnerships (MCPs) and the church’s response to these relationships, with a view that church leaders must understand the attitudes and perceptions surrounding these relationships in order to develop effective interventions. The study, which collected data from religious leaders and faith-based organisations in western, southern, and eastern Africa and across denominations, found that evangelicals were less likely to perceive MCPs as a problem within their congregations…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/303194/347
26. The Effectiveness of Mass Media in Changing HIV/AIDS-related Behaviour among Young People in Developing Countries
This report reviews the strength of the evidence for the effects of 3 types of mass media interventions (radio only, radio with supporting media, or radio and television with supporting media) on HIV/AIDS-related behaviour among young people in developing countries. Its purpose is to assess whether these interventions – such as radio, television, video, and/or printed materials – reach the threshold of evidence needed to recommend widespread implementation…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/71474/347
27. MyQuestion and MyAnswer – Nigeria
Learning about Living, a project that aims to use information and communication technologies (ICTs) to educate young people on issues around adolescent reproductive health, is running two information and advice services for young people in Nigeria called MyQuestion and MyAnswer. These services, launched in November 2007, allow young people to request information on reproductive health and HIV/AIDS through short messaging system (SMS), by going online or by phoning a hotline. It also involves a competition which requires that young people answer a set question each month related to HIV/AIDS…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/269380/347
28. Beliefs about Gender Equality Predict Multiple Concurrent Sexual Partnerships
Posted on the Aidsmap website, this summary highlights findings presented at the Fourth South African AIDS Conference (March 31 – April 3 2009). Research carried out in Rustenburg, South Africa, revealed that beliefs about gender equality are strongly predictive of multiple concurrent partnerships (MCP) and HIV risk behaviours in South Africa. According to this summary, these findings suggest that better prevention of HIV could be achieved with education campaigns that promote ideas of gender equality to men, and more frequent condom use to women…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/304673/347
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29. Multiple Concurrent Partnerships and Gender Power Dynamics: Findings from a Survey of Church-goers in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
This poster presentation, exhibited at the 2009 meeting of the International AIDS Society in Cape Town, South Africa, examines multiple concurrent partnerships (MCPs) in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province. Seeking to understand the gender and power dynamics that underpin these relationships, a survey was conducted among church-going women in the community. Questions examined the women’s perceptions about a partner’s infidelity, their ability to speak openly with their partners about this, and their exposure to forms of intimate partner violence…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/302105/347
30. Impact Data – Soul Buddyz [2006 Data] – South Africa
Launched in 2002, Soul Buddyz is a multi-media intervention designed for children aged 8 to 14 in South Africa. Soul Buddyz aims to focus on the promotion of children’s well-being through the provision of health information and skills to lead healthy lives, especially those which relate to HIV and AIDS and sexuality. Components of the Soul Buddyz intervention include: a television drama, «Soul Buddyz Television»; a radio intervention, «Soul Buddyz Radio», consisting of drama and interactive talk between children and adults; and a «Lifeskills Booklet» for Grade 7. In addition, there is a face-to-face intervention called Soul Buddyz Clubs, which is implemented in primary schools…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/304607/347
31. Consultation on Concurrent Sexual Partnerships: Recommendations from a meeting of the UNAIDS Reference Group on Estimates, Modelling and Projections held in Nairobi, Kenya, April 20-21st 2009
This document outlines recommendations that emerged from a meeting of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Reference Group on Estimates, Modelling and Projections. This meeting brought together 34 experts whose goals included: reaching consensus on a standard definition of «concurrent sexual partnerships», recommending methods for measuring concurrency in a population, and setting out a future research agenda around the study of concurrent sexual partnerships and its association with HIV transmission…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/304689/347
32. Football for an HIV-Free Generation – Africa
Football for an HIV-Free Generation (F4) is a collaborative initiative designed to tap into the energy surrounding the 2010 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Soccer World Cup. The project combines a sustained media campaign with community-level outreach and education programmes, using soccer to promote healthy living and responsible choices among African youth…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/286688/347
33. Why Multiple Sexual Partners?
In this article from The Lancet, James D. Shelton examines behavioural components of multiple concurrent sexual partnerships (MCPs), identified as driver of HIV infection in southern and eastern Africa. As stated by Sheldon: «Understanding why people have multiple partnerships is key to efforts to change behaviour, with the realisation that behaviours range from polygamy itself, to longer term quasi-polygamy (sometimes described as having a «small house»), to sporadic sexual encounter….an emerging and rich sexual ethnographic literature…reveals considerable individual autonomy and basis for interventions to change behaviour…»
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/304690/347
34. African AIDS: The Facts that Demolish the Myths
This piece offers perspective on the «international sensation» provoked by Pope Benedict XVI’s comment on the African AIDS crisis: «the scourge cannot be resolved by distributing condoms; quite the contrary, we risk worsening the problem». Author Michael Cook reviews some of the outrage at this comment, but then proceeds to challenge it…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/304701/347
35. Republic of Botswana: National Campaign Plan – Multiple Concurrent Partnerships
From the Executive Summary of this National AIDS Coordinating Agency Botswana (NACA) document: «The practice of having two or more sexual partners over the same period of time – multiple concurrent partnerships, or MCP – is recognised as a key driver of HIV transmission in Botswana. The ‘National Operational Plan for Scaling Up HIV Prevention in Botswana, 2008-2010’ calls for Botswana to embark on a… multi-year behaviour change campaign, with MCP identified as the initial focus for the campaign…»
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/304747/347
36. HIV Transmission in Intimate Partner Relationships in Asia
This document from The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) examines one aspect of HIV transmission in Asia: women at risk of acquiring HIV because they are intimate partners of men with high-risk behaviours. As stated here, the term ‘HIV transmission in intimate partner relationships’ is used to describe the transmission of HIV to women from their long-term male partners who inject drugs, have sex with other men, or are clients of sex workers…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/304768/347
37. AntiHIVirus – Global
Available in 11 languages, AntiHIVirus is an online initiative designed to pass on facts about HIV and AIDS to web-savvy youth (ages 15-24) around the world in an easily accessible way. It is part of a corporate responsibility initiative created by a United Kingdom (UK)-based international bank called Standard Chartered, whose HIV education programme is based on the belief that «Giving people the facts about HIV and AIDS enables them to make safe lifestyle choices, and also dispels the myths that drive stigma.»…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/304902/347
38. Supporting the Integration of Family Planning and HIV Services
This policy brief from the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) discusses developing the political will for integrating family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH) and HIV services globally through strategies at the policy level and the programme level. It describes integration of services as combining components of FP/RH and HIV services that are currently separate, with the goal of maximising coverage and health outcomes for the client and optimising the wise use of scarce resources…
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/304854/347
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