PREVENTION RESOURCES
http://www.comminit.com/en/africa/HIVprevention.html

1. South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence, Behaviour, and Communication Survey, 2008: A Turning Tide Among Teenagers? 
This report seeks to assess the national HIV prevention response in relation to the goals set in the South African HIV & AIDS and STI Strategic Plan (NSP), in particular, to reduce HIV incidence by 50% by 2011. The research found that although the overall situation remains dire, some solid progress has been achieved in the fight against the disease over the past few years, especially among teenagers and children. The report also provides information on high-risk groups, defined in this study as people who drink excessively, those who take drugs, men who have sex with men, and people with disabilities as well as women aged 20-34 and men aged 25-49. In particular, findings show that there is a lack of reach into older age groups with nearly 4 out of 10 people aged 50 years and older not being reached by any communication programme...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/296016/2781


2. New Data on Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention: Policy and Programme Implications
This report shares conclusions and recommendations from a March 2007 World Health Organization (WHO)/Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) international consultation "Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention: Research Implications for Policy and Programming". The consultation was sparked by the need to examine, and discuss the implications of a number of observational studies - in particular 3 randomised controlled trials - indicating that circumcised men have lower levels of HIV infection than uncircumcised men...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/287031/2781


3. Text Me! Flash Me! Helpline - Ghana
Launched in September 2008, the Text Me! Flash Me! Helpline uses cell phone technology to provide most-at-risk populations (MARP) in Ghana with friendly and accessible HIV and AIDS information, referrals, and counseling services from qualified providers...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/291748/2781


4. A 10-Year Systematic Review of HIV/AIDS Mass Communication Campaigns: Have We Made Progress?
Published in the Journal of Health Communication, this study details a 10-year (1998-2007) systematic review of HIV/AIDS mass communication campaigns carried out around the world that focus on sexual behaviour, HIV testing, or both. The purpose is to compare the results with the last comprehensive review of such campaigns, which spanned 1986 to early 1998...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/290589/2781


5. The Silent Partner: HIV in Marriage [Documentary]
This film is designed to raise awareness of the risk of HIV transmission within marriage illustrating the particular challenges facing married women. It also shows that traditional approaches to HIV prevention do not meet the needs of married women, because practicing abstinence is unrealistic, wives cannot control the faithfulness of their husbands, and because they find it difficult to negotiate condom use...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/296800/2781


6. Uganda's HIV Prevention Success: The Role of Sexual Behavior Change and the National Response
This report, originally published in the journal AIDS and Behaviour, discusses the various reasons for the decline in HIV prevalence in Uganda, and links Uganda's success with initiatives that discouraged multiple partnerships. The paper argues that behaviour change programmes, particularly involving extensive promotion of "zero grazing" (faithfulness and partner reduction), largely developed by the Ugandan government and local non-governmental organisations, including faith-based, women's, people-living-with-AIDS, and other community-based groups, contributed to the early declines in casual/multiple sexual partnerships and HIV incidence and, along with other factors including condom use, to the subsequent sharp decline in HIV prevalence...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/296240/2781


7. Strategies for Change: Breaking Barriers to HIV Prevention, Treatment, and Care for Women
This report examines innovative empowerment, legal, economic, and health services strategies for a more "woman-friendly" response to HIV. In an effort to share proven and promising initiatives that recognise the links between gender inequality and the vulnerability of girls and women to HIV, the Public Health Program of the Open Society Institute (OSI) convened a symposium called "Strategies for Change: Breaking Barriers to Prevention, Treatment and Care for Women" prior to the 2008 International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Emerging from that symposium, the report highlights the efforts of HIV activists, women's advocates, and health experts to address the needs of women who are often marginalised by society, including sex workers, drug users, and women living with HIV...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/289907/2781




HIV/AIDS EVENTS AND TRAINING ON THE SOUL BEAT AFRICA WEBSITE

For HIV/AIDS and communication-related events and trainings on the Soul Beat Africa website see http://www.comminit.com/en/section6/2781/2781,290



MULTIPLE CONCURRENT PARTNERSHIPS (MCP)
http://www.comminit.com/en/africa/HIVmcp.html 


8. The Role of Sexual Dissatisfaction in Driving Multiple Concurrent Partnerships
This powerpoint presentation, presented at the 4th South African AIDS Conference in 2009, looks at the role of sexual dissatisfaction and lack of partner communication in driving MCP in South Africa. The author argues that sexual dissatisfaction must be addressed as part of a strategy to decrease MCP...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/298063/2781


9. Multiple and Concurrent Sexual Partnerships in Generalized HIV Epidemics  Report on a Technical Consultation in Washington, DC, October 29-30 2008, convened by the PEPFAR General Population and Youth Technical Working Group and AIDSTAR-One
To support the expansion of MCP programming, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Technical Working Group (TWG) for General Population and Youth Prevention, in collaboration with AIDSTAR-One, convened a technical consultation in Washington, DC in October 2008, entitled Multiple and Concurrent Sexual Partnerships in Generalized HIV Epidemics. The objectives of this meeting were to (1) deepen understanding of the role of MCP in the spread of HIV and (2) share emerging programmatic approaches and build consensus on promising strategies to address MCP. This report offers a brief summary of key themes that emerged from the meeting and looks at what is known about MCP, what still needs to be learned, and what can be done now to advance efforts to address MCP...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/298065/2781


10. One Love. Kwasila! - Zambia
Launched in June 2009, the One Love. Kwasila! campaign is a Zambian national multimedia campaign to prevent HIV transmission caused by MCP. The campaign consists of a television mini drama series called Club Risky Business and other multimedia elements involving radio, television talkshows, a feature length film, print materials, and a website. The One Love. Kwasila! campaign is tied to a regional One Love campaign being implemented across Eastern and Southern Africa...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/297147/2781
 

11. OneLove Campaign - Zimbabwe
Launched in June 2009, Zimbabwe's OneLove Campaign is a multimedia campaign focusing on the reduction of MCP which has been identified as the key driver of the HIV pandemic in southern Africa. The campaign consists of print, radio, and television components which are produced by different implementing partners of the campaign. The campaign's message is that it is possible to have one loving, happy relationship that is fulfilling and satisfying both emotionally and sexually...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/298272/2781
 

12. Assessment of Kenyan Sexual Networks: Collecting Evidence for Interventions to Reduce HIV/STI Rsk in Garissa, North Eastern Province, and Eastleigh, Nairobi
This paper, published by Pathfinder International, presents evidence supporting the theory that although the population of North Eastern province, who are mostly ethnic Somalis, has long been culturally and geographically isolated from the rest of Kenya, the sexual behaviours of key populations in Garissa are comparable to other areas of Kenya, putting them and their sexual partners at risk of contracting HIV. The assessment found that risky behaviours such as concurrent relationships, commercial sex, transactional sex, intergenerational sex, and drug and alcohol use were practiced...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/295681/2781


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