25 research outputs found
The Need to Reemphasize Behavior Change for HIV Prevention in Uganda: A Qualitative Study
Uganda has long been considered an AIDS success story, although in recent years declines in prevalence and incidence appear to have stalled or even reversed. During the early stages of Uganda's AIDS prevention program, health messages emphasized behavior change, especially fidelity. Ugandans were made to fear AIDS and feel personally at risk of dying from a new, poorly understood disease. In this research, six focus group discussions with 64 participants in peri-urban and rural areas outside Kampala suggest that HIV prevention messages have shifted in the direction of risk reduction: condoms, testing, and drugs. Ugandans now seem less afraid of becoming infected with HIV, at least in part because antiretroviral therapy is available, and this diminished fear may be having a disinhibiting effect on sexual behavior. Participants believe that HIV rates are on the rise, that more individuals are engaged in multiple and concurrent sexual partnerships, and that sexual behavior is less restrained than a generation ago. These findings suggest that AIDS-prevention programs in Uganda would benefit from refocusing on the content that yielded success previously-sexual behavior change strategies
Monitoring and evaluation of sport-based HIV/AIDS awareness programmes: strengthening outcome indicators
There are number of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in South Africa that use sport as a tool to respond to Human
Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), however, little is reported about the outcomes
and impact of these programmes. The aim of this study is to contribute to a generic monitoring and evaluation framework by
improving the options for the use of outcome indicators of sport-based HIV/AIDS awareness programmes of selected NGOs in
South Africa. A qualitative method study was carried out with seven employees of five selected NGOs that integrate sport to
deliver HIV/AIDS programmes in South Africa. The study further involved six specialists/experts involved in the field of HIV/
AIDS and an official from Sport Recreation South Africa (SRSA). Multiple data collection instruments including desktop review,
narrative systematic review, document analysis, one-on-one interviews and focus group interview were used to collect
information on outcomes and indicators for sport-based HIV/AIDS awareness programmes. The information was classified
according to the determinants of HIV/AIDS. The overall findings revealed that the sport-based HIV/AIDS awareness
programmes of five selected NGOs examined in this study focus on similar HIV prevention messages within the key priorities
highlighted in the current National Strategic Plan for HIV/AIDS, STIs and TB of South Africa. However, monitoring and
evaluating outcomes of sport-based HIV/AIDS programmes of the selected NGOs remains a challenge. A need exists for the
improvement of the outcome statements and indicators for their sport-based HIV/AIDS awareness programmes. This study
proposed a total of 51 generic outcome indicators focusing on measuring change in the knowledge of HIV/AIDS and change in
attitude and intention towards HIV risk behaviours. In addition, this study further proposed a total of eight generic outcome
indicators to measure predictors of HIV risk behaviour. The selected NGOs can adapt the proposed generic outcomes and
indicators based on the settings of their programmes. A collaborative approach by all stakeholders is required, from
international organisations, funders, governments, NGOs and communities to strengthening monitoring and evaluation of
sport-based HIV/AIDS awareness programmes including other development programmes. This will assist the NGOs that use
sport for development to be able to reflect accurately the information about their HIV/AIDS activities and also be able to
contribute to on-going monitoring activities at a national and global level as well as to the Sustainable Development Goals.IS
Economic problems of National Unification: proceedings of a German-Korean-Conference
Includes 8 articlesAvailable from Bibliothek des Instituts fuer Weltwirtschaft, ZBW, Duesternbrook Weg 120, D-24105 Kiel A 201532 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman
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A South African university-practitioner partnership to strengthen capacity in social and behaviour change communication
Globally, communication plays an integral role in public health strategies, from infectious diseases to diseases related to lifestyles. The evolution of the field of social and behaviour change communication (SBCC), combined with the need for evidence based practice and multi-level interventions to promote health, and human resource gaps in sub-Saharan Africa have led to the imperative to standardise and formalise the field. Moreover, current practitioners come from different disciplinary backgrounds underlining the need to define common core skills and competencies. This paper describes the partnership between the Wits School of Public Health and the Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication and how the partners responded to this need. It highlights the factors influencing sustainable institutional capacity to provide quality assured, accredited training. We describe an unexpected positive response from a number of practitioner organisations that have chosen to send multiple staff members for training, specifically to build a critical mass within their organisations. Finally, we note the interest from (mostly) southern-based academic institutions in setting up similar programmes and postulate that south–south collaborations can contribute to building sustainable context specific and evidence-informed SBCC programmes in the global south