The Drum Beat 546 - HIV/AIDS Communication
- CI summaries focusing on HIV and MSM
- JOIN in discussions focused on HIV.
- Research and thinking related to MARRIAGE and HIV.
- Places to look for MORE HIV INFO.
- Collected information on MCP.
- MCP in Southern Africa: WEIGH IN.
- TESTING/TREATMENT communication.
- THANKS to our CI Associates.
- HIV MESSAGING.
- Media exposure of HIV-positive people: CAST YOUR VOTE.
A variety of issues arise in the context of efforts to prevent and/or treat HIV and AIDS, requiring the adaptation of strategies, the formulation of new approaches, and the development of programming specific to the population being reached. This HIV issue of The Drum Beat examines a sampling of CI knowledge summaries that reflect on communication contexts, challenges, and opportunities.
If you have strategies, experiences, or tools to share that highlight how communication is being used to address the prevention, care or treatment of HIV and AIDS, please send information, at any time, to drumbeat@comminit.com
HIV AND MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN (MSM)
1. HIV Prevention for Men Who Have Sex with Men - amfAR Issue Brief No. 4
...examines the interaction of identity and behaviours of MSM as context for interventions to prevent sexual transmission of HIV... [More here.]
2. Ensuring Universal Access to Comprehensive HIV Services for MSM in Asia and the Pacific
... researches models for HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support among MSM in Asia and the Pacific, and includes an analysis of community, identity, space, and sexual desire and behaviour as background for developing policy, strategy, and service programming... [More here.]
...uses a social exclusion framework to identify social, economic, and legal forces that heighten the vulnerability to HIV/AIDS of excluded groups, including sex workers, injection drug users (IDUs), MSM, and the transgender population (hijras/ hijra population)... [More here.]
4. Extra-Marital Sexual Partnerships and Male Friendships in Rural Malawi
...investigates, as part of research designed to change men's non-marital sexual behaviours by harnessing men's social networks, the roles of 2 types of male friendships - best friends and friends with whom men talk about AIDS... [More here.]
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HIV/AIDS Strategy: Future Directions
5. Till Death Do Us Part: Marriage of Young Girls Dooms Zambia's HIV Response
...does the traditional practice of early marriage in Zambia result in an elevated level of HIV infections among Zambian women?... [More here.]
6. Gender, Family, and HIV/AIDS in Lesotho
...examines how patterns of marriage and family formation and recent changes in marriage practices in contemporary Lesotho intersect with high levels of HIV infection in young women... [More here.]
7. Protecting Young Women from HIV/AIDS: The Case against Child and Adolescent Marriage
...suggests policy changes based on aspects of young women's lives that may increase their vulnerability to the HIV virus... [More here.]
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MULTIPLE CONCURRENT PARTNERSHIPS (MCP)
8. How Denial of MCP Drives the Indian Pandemic
...looks at the role of MCP in increasing the risk of HIV and other STIs in India, where there is a high prevalence of sex work, STIs, and polygamy... [More here.]
...research that examines perceptions about a partner's infidelity, ability to speak openly with partners about this, and exposure to forms of intimate partner violence... [More here.]
...explores how culturally-embedded communication about HIV and AIDS and sexual behaviour contributes to sustaining the practice of MCP in Lesotho, where using open and direct language runs counter to indigenous concepts of respect and social status... [More here.]
11. One Love. Kwasila! - Zambia
...an MCP campaign that includes a television mini drama series called Club Risky Business, plus radio, TV talk shows, a feature-length film, print materials, a website, and bus campaigns... [More here.]
Please VOTE in our POLL on MCP Campaigns in Southern Africa
In Southern Africa, HIV prevention communication campaigns, messages, and activities that focus on multiple concurrent partnerships are: (you can choose more than one option)
- very visible
- not very visible
- well coordinated
- not well coordinated
- reaching the correct age group
- not reaching the correct age group
- concentrated in urban areas
- concentrated in rural areas
- well balanced in relation rural/urban
- focused too much on mass media
- focused too much on interpersonal communication
- well balanced in relation to communication strategy
HIV TESTING, TREATMENT, AND SUPPORT
12. Building Linkages and Referrals: A Step towards Sustainability: Alliance India's Experience
...describes linkages between service providers and clients in providing health care to the most-in-need children of HIV-affected families in India... [More here.]
...explores the Partnership Defined Quality (PDQ) methodology as implemented in Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador to improve VCT services... [More here.]
14. Facilitating HIV Testing and Disclosure with Children and Adolescents
...examines barriers and challenges in facilitating HIV testing and disclosure for children 0-18 years, including possible highly emotional responses and unintentional psychological outcomes... [More here.]
Our thanks to the Communication and Development Studies Programme at Ohio University for their renewed support through the CI Associates process.
Please consider joining Ohio University and other CI Associates who are "giving back" by helping preserve, sustain, and advance this growing knowledge sharing and strategic development process. Many levels of participation are open!
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...a television serial drama advocating human rights, gender equality, and a reduction in HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination... [More here.]
17. Mobilising for Life: Protecting Papua (MFL)
...HIV prevention peer education sessions in more than 200 remote communities in Indonesian Papua including hour-long audio programmes, modelled on a radio programme format, recorded to MP3 files, and distributed to the communities to be played on solar-powered MP3 players... [More here.]
...examines the strategy of peer education for reaching female sex workers with messages on STIs and HIV and AIDS prevention in 4 large brothels in Bangladesh... [More here.]
...reports on one year of a 6-year effort to reach more than 1,060,000 youth through interpersonal and participative approaches in Guyana, Haiti, and Tanzania... [More here.]
Please VOTE in our POLL on HIV Media Exposure Risks
What reception or risks do HIV-positive people in your community face when their status is exposed in the media? (you may choose more than one; please add clarifying comments)
- repercussions of physical danger.
- banishment.
- loss of family support.
- increased personal access to treatment.
- increased community and peer support.
- none of the above.
VOTE and COMMENT - click here.
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RESULTS THUS FAR (June 11 2010):
29% loss of family support.
18% increased community and peer support.
18% banishment.
17% increased personal access to treatment.
13% repercussions of physical danger.
5% none of the above.
This issue of The Drum Beat was written by Julie Levy.
The Editor of The Drum Beat is Kier Olsen DeVries.
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