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Sexual and Reproductive Health for HIV-Positive Women and Adolescent Girls

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A Manual for Trainers and Programme Managers
This 239-page manual is designed to provide information and structure for a four-day training and a two-day planning workshop that will enable programme managers and health workers in resource-constrained settings to offer comprehensive, non-judgemental, and quality care and support to HIV-positive women and adolescent girls in the local context. The manual also urges male involvement and promotes a holistic approach to integrated sexual and reproductive health (SRH) counselling and programme planning that links SRH and HIV/AIDS services.

This manual was field-tested with SRH and HIV/AIDS programme managers and health workers in Brazil, Ethiopia, and the Ukraine and the feedback from the field-tests was incorporated into the final version. It is divided into nineteen sessions, each covered in a format which states objectives, duration of session, materials, advanced preparation, key ideas to convey, and training steps. The activities are participant-centered and include brainstorming, discussion, role plays with prepared scenarios, and small group activities.

Session topics are:
  • Overview
  • Basic HIV and AIDS information
  • Exploring beliefs, values and attitudes about HIV and AIDS
  • Basic counselling skills and approaches
  • Sexual and reproductive health vulnerability of HIV-positive women and adolescent girls
  • Addressing HIV and AIDS stigma and discrimination in the healthcare setting
  • Sexual and reproductive rights of HIV-positive women and adolescent girls
  • Supporting clients' informed and voluntary decision-making
  • Ethical Issues in counselling
  • Providing Psychosocial Support for a positive diagnosis HIV disclosure
  • Addressing sexuality with HIV-positive women and adolescent girls
  • Improving a client's perception of risk
  • Adolescent sexuality, pregnancy, and HIV/AIDS
  • Counselling HIV positive adolescent girls on sexual and reproductive health
  • Comprehensive SRH Care of HIV-positive women and adolescent girls
  • Family Planning needs of HIV-positive women and adolescent girls
  • Integrated SRH counselling for HIV-positive women and adolescent girls
  • Closing session

Appendices contain complete course support materials including handouts, questionnaires, informational quizzes, etc.

This resource is available in 5 languages in CD-ROM or downloadable PDF format, or in hard copy format in English.

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Languages

English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

Number of Pages

239

Source

International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (IWC) website; EngenderHealth website; and email from EngenderHealth to The Communication Initiative on August 23 2007.

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