Multiple and Concurrent Sexual Partnerships
Tools and Curricula
Tsha Tsha is an award-winning television series consisting of 78 half-hour episodes that were broadcast between 2003 and 2006. The educational/entertainment drama series focuses on young people and how they live with HIV/AIDS while coping with poverty and other social issues. A DVD companion discussion guide about strategies for the effective management of HIV and a facilitator’s guide to the first segment of Tsha Tsha are available.
OneLove. Loving with Respect: A Guide for Men Who Care
This 16-page guide for men addresses myths that interfere with positive relationships and that may contribute to MCP. Such myths include the idea that a woman can’t say "no" to sex after going on a date or that it is in men’s "biology" to have more than one partner. The guide lists the phone numbers for various regional offices of the National AIDS Council (NAC).
OneLove. Loving Carefully: A Guide for Women
This 16-page guide for women uses a variety of scenarios to encourage women to speak openly with the men they love to reduce their chances of contracting HIV. Issues from rape to pregnancy are included and the guide concludes with a list of phone numbers for various regional offices of the National AIDS Council (NAC).
The Changing the River’s Flow Series is a project that addresses "harmful cultural practices" that can feed into the transmission of HIV. The project includes an 89-page "best practices" document, two community education handbooks, a training manual, booklet, poster, banner, and sticker. Separate links are provided for each.
This 85-page training manual provides information for a four-day training program on the linkages between gender-based violence, culture, women’s rights and HIV/AIDS. The project was developed for community-based workers and volunteers, HIV implementers, and others. The manual includes a section on creating an action plan and provides handouts that can be used during the program.
HIV Peer Education Picture Codes
CARE (2008)
McLellan I.
A set of picture codes produced in Botswana is available for a variety of topics, including abstinence, alcohol abuse reduction, sexual behavior choices, gender and sexual abuse reduction, better couple communication, and values and goal setting. Links for downloading the codes are provided.
CARE, December 2007, Outreach Guides: HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs
Pact Botswana has developed ten outreach guides to assist HIV program implementers. The guides use participatory methods and focus on promotion of behavior change, especially for at-risk groups, taking co-factors such as alcohol abuse, sexual violence, and intergenerational sex into consideration. Each guide can be downloaded by topic or as a single large packet. Topics include: Organizing and Conducting Outreach; Abstinence Promotion; Assertiveness and Peer Pressure; Values and Goal Setting; Sexual Behavior Changes; Alcohol Abuse Reduction, Gender Roles and Sexual Abuse Reduction; Better Couple Communication; Enhancing Parent-Child Communication; and Partner Reduction and Protection
Soul City developed this 22-page handbook for journalists in order to improve reporting on HIV. Terms are defined and research summaries are provided regarding MCPs, concurrency, lack of condom use, interpersonal violence and certain cultural norms. The handbook offers a number of questions and potential stories for journalists to pursue. Reference articles and links are included. An extensive list of resources with contact information is also provided.
The HIV Superhighway
The HIV Superhighway is a two-part educational film on concurrent partnerships and HIV prevention. The film was produced by DKT-Ethiopia and is intended for any audience at risk, especially young people. It could be shown in school- or work-based programs, anti-AIDS clubs or in community-based organizations and NGOs.
Part I uses animated drawings to explain how HIV spreads faster via concurrency than via serial monogamy, even though serial monogamists may have more sexual partners.
Part II describes Uganda's successful "Zero Grazing" AIDS campaign that urged people to stay faithful to one partner, reduce their sexual partners and helped break up the HIV Superhighway that encouraged the virus to spread.
The film can also be downloaded by going to www.vimeo.com; search for "HIV Superhighway" and at the very bottom of the page click the box that says "Download." Click on that and follow the instructions. Users have permission to show and copy the film.
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