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Safari ya Mafanikio (Journey of Success) Resource Kit

These tools guide group discussions and other interactive activities in communities, providing opportunities for interpersonal communication and community dialogue.The Safari ya Mafanikio CRK’s unique and highly participatory methodology applies the principles of effective learning, engaging participants through interactive storytelling, drama, games, metaphors, personal risk assessments, and other innovative activities that inspire solution-seeking behaviors and shift mental models around deeply held cultural values. Activities do not just inform the audience what they should or should not do, but also enable a motivating connection with why they should or should not do it, in a manner effective for literate and non-literate audiences.

The kit contains twelve modules covering a range of topics identified as priorities by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Grounded in an introductory module in which participants create their vision for a healthy future, health modules include HIV prevention; HIV testing and counseling; voluntary medical male circumcision; HIV treatment, adherence, and support; tuberculosis; maternal, newborn, and child health; elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV; family planning; most vulnerable children; malaria prevention; and malaria treatment and prevention during pregnancy.

Rather than creating separate kits for each topic, the CRK addresses all of them together in one comprehensive and versatile resource. The attached file includes the Trainers Manual, the English and Swahili versions of the kit, and campaign messages.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Sawa Sawa: A Community Dialogue Manual to Reduce Stigma

This training material is one of two materials produced for Sawa Sawa, an HIV programme implemented by the Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) in the Sofala Province of Mozambique. The program ran from January 2017 – December 2017, and sought to reduce stigma in communities in order to improve health seeking behaviors for HIV services, particularly among men.

The goal of this manual is to reduce community-level stigma and in doing so improve HIV testing, treatment initiation, and adherence outcomes among men in particular.

It is intended for facilitators to use this guide for small group discussions with community members to engage them in dialogue to address social norms, dispel myths and fears related to PLHIV, and develop plans to reduce stigma within their communities. A consistent message is woven throughout the small group sessions in the manual to remind participants that they are all “sawa sawa” (equal).

In addition, the program led “Positive Prevention” training – Sawa Sawa Positive Prevention.

Source: PEPFAR, USAID, Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Sawa Sawa Positive Prevention

This training material is one of two materials produced for Sawa Sawa, an HIV programme implemented by the Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) in the Sofala Province of Mozambique. The program ran from January 2017 – December 2017, and sought to reduce stigma in communities in order to improve health seeking behaviors for HIV services, particularly among men.

The program ran Positive Prevention groups for people living with HIV (PLHIV), which were designed to teach clients about the difference between CD4 and viral load and the importance of viral suppression, as well as provide a supporting environment for PLHIV.

In addition, the program led community dialogues which are described in Sawa Sawa: A Community Dialogue Manual to Reduce Stigma.

The goals of the Sawa Sawa Positive Prevention training are for the participants to:

  • Be acquainted with the Sawa Sawa Positive Prevention tool and its objectives
  • Have created an environment where there is confidentiality and all feel welcome
  • Reflect on the reasons that cause men to take less care of their own health
  • Assess the importance of men taking care of their health

The key messages of the session are:

  • It is a man’s responsibility to take care of his own health and the health of his partner.
  • It is important for men to seek health services and guide other men to do the same, in order to:
    • Use condoms to avoid transmitting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to their partner
    • When having a sign/symptom of a sexually transmitted infection (STI), preventing the disease from getting worse or transmitting it to their partner

Source: PEPFAR, USAID, Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Seis saberes basicos da comunicacao interpessoal e aconselhamento [Six Basic Skills of Interpersonal Communication and Counseling]

This job aid was created as part of the Mozambique medical circumcision campaign.

It offers six basic skills for effectivve interpersonal communication and counseling for medical circumcision:

  • Know how to listen
  • Know what to ask
  • Know how to inform
  • Know how to answer questions
  • Know how to encourage client adherence

Source: Mozambique Ministry of Health

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Shuga Peer Educators’ Training Guide

The University of Western Cape created this guide for Shuga Series 3 through a participatory weekend retreat involving university students and professors.

The guide is designed to help Peer Educators both understand the issues framed by the MTV Shuga series and understand their own situations relative to coming of age, sexuality, families, stigma, and behaviours surrounding the risk of HIV. The focus of the guide is on whether and how MTV Shuga viewers use their knowledge of HIV.

The guide is centred on the quality of individual human relationships among young people and families that can support open conversation and a route to safer navigation of personal decision-making, the danger of silence, and the importance of personal, internal goals. Each session focuses on an episode and a theme, with invitations for personal reflection.

Source: MTV Staying Alive Foundation

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Social and Behavior Change Communication for Frontline Health Workers

C‐Change created this learning package to facilitate face‐to‐face workshops on social and behavior change communication (SBCC) and interpersonal communication (IPC) for health care workers (HCWs). Consisting of a Facilitator’s Guide and Participant Handout Packet, SBCC for Frontline Health Care Workers is designed for HCWs (e.g., nurses, community health extension workers, and HIV counselors) who are working on the frontlines with clients on a regular basis. Ideally the participants will have some experience or previous training in counseling and/or IPC. Through the use of this learning package HCWs will develop the skills to apply SBCC and IPC effectively to their work and deliver higher quality care to clients. The goal is also to increase the understanding among health care organizations of the following:

  • SBCC’s role and how to apply it in their work
  • IPC and how to use the skills within the context of their work
  • How to apply communication skills to client interactions, advocacy, and social mobilization in their work

Source: FHI 360

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Stepping Stones Training Package on Gender Communication and HIV [Toolkit]

Stepping Stones is a training package in gender, HIV, communication and relationship skills.

It includes:

  • A 240-page manual for trainers
  • An accompanying workshop video of 15 five-minute clips (though the manual can be used without the video)
  • Instructions on how to run approximately 60 hours of workshop sessions, divided into 18 sessions over 10 to 12 weeks

Stepping Stones grew out of the need to address the vulnerability of women and young people in decision-making about sexual behavior. The materials enable people to explore the huge range of issues which affect our sexual health – including gender roles, money, alcohol use, traditional practices, attitudes to sex, attitudes to death and our own personalities. The workshops are designed to be held with four peer groups drawn from a community at the same time.

The workshop aims to enable individuals, their peers and their communities to change their behavior – individually and together – through the ‘stepping stones’ which the various sessions provide. Although originally designed for use throughout sub-Saharan Africa, it is also being successfully adapted for use in Asia, North and Latin America and Europe. All sessions use a participatory approach of adult learning through shared discussions. The exercises are all based on people’s own experiences, and role play and drawing exercises enable everyone to take part. No literacy is needed. Stepping Stones was developed between 1993 and 1995, mainly in Uganda, working with a rural community, comprising Muslims, Protestants, Catholics and others, all living together in the same village.

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Supporting Orphans and other Vulnerable Children through Communication and Basic Counselling: A Reference Guide for Service Providers

This guide has been written as a reference resource for non-professional counselors and staff working with orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) who need to know how to provide some basic counselling as part of psychosocial support for the children in their care or through their projects.

This guide aims to provide information and guidance which can be used with other resources.

The guide aims to: strengthen the capacity of service providers to address the individual and collective psychosocial needs of children and young people; provide an easy to use two-in-one guide and reference material for child counselors; promote the personal and professional development of counselors and other staff working with children and young people; and help service providers to assess and deal with challenges in working with orphans and other vulnerable children.

The Alliance, as part of the CORE Initiative Project in Uganda developed this publication as part of a series of tools and guides to support the development of the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGSLD) Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children Programme.

Source: International HIV/AIDS Alliance

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Talking About LARCs with Young Clients Video & Discussion Guide

This video, which is part of a set of materials for young women on LARCs, is intended for service providers to guide them in how to approach young women who are interested in postponing pregnancy and searching for an appropriate contraceptive. There is a discussion guide which accompanies the video.

The materials are available in English and French.

The purpose of this discussion guide is:

  • To accompany the video so viewers may reflect on, debate and draw insights from the content they have watched
  • Facilitate discussions among health pr:oviders about their role and their needs in delivering comprehensive contraceptive counseling for young people
  • Increase providers’ comfort and confidence in providing comprehensive contraceptive counseling for young people that includes information about LARCs

Intended users include:

  • Program managers or staff working with healthcare providers on offering a range of voluntary contraceptive methods, including LARCs, or adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health issues
  • Healthcare providers or managers who lead discussions with colleagues on delivering reproductive health services to young people

Other materials in this set (also in both English and French) include:

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Trainers Manual for “Grow Healthy”

This material is from the Healthy Women of Ukraine (HWUP) program. The goal of HWUP, which runs from 2011-2016, is to protect the reproductive health of Ukrainian women and couples by increasing the appropriate and effective use of modern methods of contraception as an alternative to unintended pregnancy and associated abortion. HWUP was a follow-on project to an earlier program, Together for Health, which ran from from 2006-2011.

This is a manual for trainers in the framework of the educational program “Grow Healthy.” This manual is for teachers and social workers who will further work with teenagers and youth on FP/RH issues.

Source: Healthy Women of Ukraine Program (HWUP)

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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