community action programs (caps)
Scaling up HIV and AIDS Prevention Activities
Growing evidence on the vulnerability of people with disabilities on risks of HIV-infection highlights the problems of programme exclusion. Current HIV&AIDS prevention and management strategies list target populations which include women and young people living in poverty, yet individuals with disabilities though among the poorest in the country are excluded. This project is designed to scale up HIV prevention activities among out of school young people with disabilities and people with disability in Ibadan, Oyo State Nigeria through strengthened Family Life and HIV Education implementation.
The intervention entails using Family Life Health Education (FLHE) to encourage behavioural change through the steps of building the target audiences’ knowledge on Sexual Reproductive Health including HIV&AIDS.
This was done through training of young people and people with disabilities as peer educators who regularly delivered FLHE using both community theatre and outreaches. This assisted the target group to adopt behaviours that decreases their vulnerability to HIV. Their skills were enhanced to practice the adopted positive behaviour through training of life skills, peer education and condom use. The peer educators acted as advocates and reached out to their peers with correct information on HIV, life skills and refered their peers appropriately to access Voluntary Counselling and Testing services in already identified service centres.
This CAP has ended.
facts
Area of Activism:
Public Health
Region
Africa
Country
Nigeria
Changemakers involved
Kolawole from the African Youth Summit 2009
