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Despite numerous national campaigns and millions of dollars spent on education and health services, HIV/AIDS prevalence rates in Tanzania remain at epidemic levels. Research has shown that it is important for anti-HIV initiatives to target the country's most vulnerable and high risk populations who contribute disproportionately to the spread of the illness. But what are the best ways for public health professionals to deliver information about HIV prevention to these populations? …
Seáproponen acciones más comprometidas del periodismo, donde la propia identidad deberá responder en todo tiempo a las abstracciones necesarias para el cumplimiento de la tarea. El periodista es parte fundamental en la construcción de democracia, en la redefinición de ciudadanía, en la formación de opinión, en la protección cultural, en la deliberación permanente para la constitución del bien público.
Actualmente, en América Latina y el Caribe 47.000 niños y niñas viven con el VIH y más de 400.000 jóvenes entre 15 y 24 años han sido diagnosticados VIH positivos. En la región, diariamente se constatan más de 210 muertes relacionadas con el VIH, en tanto que en el Caribe el SIDA continúa siendo una de las principales causas de muerte entre la población adulta.
Why are many HIV policies out of tune with the requirements of the epidemic and why do the more appropriate policies fail to perform as expected? Answering these questions involves understanding more about the way in which problems are defined and agendas are set, the processes through which ideas and knowledge become policies, and the demands and incentives facing decision-makers. This paper examine the interactions among institutions, interests and ideas in HIV policies in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) to get a better sense of what has led to particular policy outcomes. …
The programme brief defines entertainment-education or EE, addresses its relevance to UNFPA thematic priorities, discusses key programming elements, describes experiences-to-date, lists key lessons learned, and points to a number of useful resources (references and web-based).
UNFPA preventing HIV/AIDS among adolescents through integrated communication programming
The report analyzes the strengths and weaknesses in media attention to parenting issues and offers several recommendations for tapping the power of the media more effectively on behalf of parents and those who work with and for parents and families.
This booklet describes the fourteen countries' responses to address the problems faced by adolescents by showing the various programmes and activities that the countries are carrying out. Each of the programme included describes the target audiences reached, the scope, type of organizations involved, their objectives, strategies used, outputs or results of such programmes and impact. After describing the overall programme details, this bookelt zeroes in on the advocacy and IEC strategies which have been used. …
The case study describes the demographic characteristics of India's adolescent population; documents their programmes in responding to problems associated with adolescent reproductive health; highlights the advocacy and IEC strategies used to promote the ARH messages; culls out the lessons learned, analyzing the factors which contributed to their successes and failures; and finally based on these experiences, presents guidelines on how to run advocacy and IEC programmes on adolescent reproductive health successfully.
This paper describes life skills approach as a best-practice that contribute to the healthy development of adolescents. This approach falls into three complementary basic categories: i) Social or interpersonal skills, including communication, negotiation skills, assertiveness, cooperation, empathy; ii) Cognitive skills, including problem solving, decision making, critical thinking, self-evaluation and iii) Emotional coping skills.
This manual on health and HIV/AIDS education, in particular for youth and women, is base on a life skills approach. It is divided in seven parts and subdivided in fifty lessons which can be adapted to specific age and target groups. The first and second part cover the principles of behavioural change through the life skills approach and the training of peer educators. The third part explains how to deal with the realities and myths around HIV/AIDS and the fourth part on communication strategies. The fifth part deals with risk evaluation, choice making and the understanding of its consequences, planning for the future and the definition of objectives. The sixth part deals with ideas about gender, culture, peer influence, love and respect of one self and how to deal with emotions.
Social marketing has become an increasingly popular way of addressing serious health issues in developing countries. By using traditional commercial marketing techniques, social marketing makes much-needed products available and affordable to low-income people. In the mid-80s, condom social marketing emerged as an effective tool against the spread of HIV/AIDS. This document defines social marketing, as well as highlighting the three key lessons learned in promoting condom social marketing. The document also discusses UNAIDS' role in social marketing.
This booklet describes fourteen countries' response to address the problems faced by adolescents by showing the various programmes and activities that the countries are carrying out. Each of the programme included describes the target audiences reached, the scope, type of organizations involved, their objectives, strategies used, outputs or results of such programmes and impact. After describing the overall programme details, this booklet zeroes in on the advocacy and IEC strategies, which have been used. The strategies are analysed in terms of their types and approach, target audiences, objectives, messages or contents, communication media of vehicles used, problems faced, solutions to problems, output, and the impact.
This brochure is based on a case study of the political dialogue in Senegal on the issue of AIDS. It attempts to define mechanisms that promote this dialogue in which all the country's socio-political actors are expected to be involved.
