keyword: | behavior change |
Case Study
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In Kenya, the government's work against HIV is supplemented frequently by civil society organizations (CSOs). These organizations, however, are oft |
Programs focused on promoting gender equity and combating detrimental gender norms play a key role in HIV prevention. This case study (one of nine |
Addressing multiple and concurrent |
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Through their innovative Community Popular Opinion Leader (CPOL) approach, the Y.R. Gaitonde Center for AIDS Research and Education (Y.R.G. CARE) p |
As a lynchpin of its bold goal of zero new HIV infections by 2016, Botswana's national O Icheke: Break the Chain campaign offers a wake-up call on |
In South Africa, where rates of alcohol consumption and HIV are among the highest in the world, sexual risk taking and drinking frequently intersec |
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Men who have sex with men (MSM) have been neglected in HIV programming in sub-Saharan Africa, frequently ignored in national strategies and hidden |
Launched on South African television in June 2008, the Scrutinize Campaign was a year-long series of HIV prevention ads targeting |
Makhwapheni Uyabulala, or “Secret Lovers Kill,” was Swaziland’s first national media campaign to focus on the HIV risk of |
Events
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The second debate in the USAID and World Bank-sponsored Emerging Issues in Today’s HIV Response Debate Series was based on the following proposit |
Promising Practice
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MCP messages were integrated into the larger interpersonal communication strategy, using community debates, participatory thea |
Soul City: IHDC was initiated in 1992 in order to harness the power of the mass media for health and deve |
Pathfinder's Expansion of Psychosocial and Peer Counseling Services Program has worked in Botswana to promote well being among |
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The AYA strategy focused on implementing and scaling up a comprehensive set of six integrated adolescent sexual and reproducti |
Use of group based cognitive behavioral skills training on HIV risk and prevention in gender specific groups to change sexual |
Programa H stimulates young men to question traditional "norms" associated with masculinity and promotes both discussion and r |
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Stepping Stones is a workshop series designed as a training package to help promote sexual and reproductive health. The traini |
Population Media Center-Ethiopia developed the Youth-Focused Media Communication Project to promote social response to HIV/AID |
The project was organized to promote the use of health services and STI treatment for sex workers to reduce HIV incidence. The |
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The Aksi Stop AIDS (ASA) Project, the centerpiece of FHI's portfolio in Indonesia, is designed to assist the National AIDS Com |
The One Man Can Campaign supports men and boys to take action to end domestic and sexual violence and to promote healthy, equi |
Agents of Change is a peer education program intended for use in a church setting. Church-based young people are as much at ri |
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President Museveni's Presidential Initiative on AIDS Strategy for Communication to Youth (PIASCY) was a unique component of th |
The Helping Each Other Act Responsibly Together (HEART) Campaign promotes healthy sexual behaviors among young people, ages 15 |
The Ndola Demonstration Project (NDP) efforts in PMTCT tested the operational feasibility of an integrated MTCT risk-reduction |
HIV Prevention Knowledge Base Entry
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Unprotected sex is the leading cause of HIV transmission, accounting for more than 80 percent of the total number of infections. Male and female co |
Partner reduction is a prevention strategy focused on decreasing overall number of partners in order to lessen the risk of becoming infected with o |
HIV programs generally define abstinence as not engaging in sexual intercourse, delaying sexual debut, or, for those who have already been sexually |
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Mass media interventions aim to prevent HIV by increasing knowledge, improving risk perception, changing sexual behaviors, and questioning potentia |
Many people are now aware that having multiple sexual partners increases their risk of contracting HIV. Fewer people are aware that having concurre |
Alcohol use in virtually all cultures reduces both people’s perception of risk and their inhibitions against engaging in risky behaviors. Alcohol u |
Technical Consultation Material
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September 2010, South Africa - This three-day meeting brought together 117 health professionals from 14 countries in Eastern and Southern |
