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    Peer Educators

    Guide Booklet

    Working with children andyoung people affectedby HIV/AIDS

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    Peer Educators Guide Booklet

    Working With Children And

    Young People Affected By

    Hiv/aids

    Prepared by:

    Melina Laukka & Dorcus Asiimwe, social workers

    Kawempe Youth Development Association (KYDA)

    BOX: 71976 Clock Tower, Kampala

    Tel: +256 414 69 11 82 ,+256 752 36 83 32

    Email: [email protected]

    September 2010

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    FOREWORD

    HIV / AIDS has infected and affected many

    people in Uganda. There have been promising

    results from preventing further spread and

    supporting HIV/AIDS patients through

    community activities. It has been indicatedthat community based volunteers (including

    peer educators) are relevant to both

    communities and institutions. They have

    several functions in the community, such as

    providing services that are more relevant to

    the needs of the poor and underserved

    populations, following up their clients at home

    regularly, identifying health and psychosocial

    problems early, and making well- timed and

    suitable referrals. The use of community based

    volunteers is also less expensive and reaches a

    bigger area, which ensures that those who are

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    vulnerable are reached by services (Government

    of Uganda, 2010.)

    This guide is supposed to give basic

    information about HIV/AIDS while providing

    basic knowledge and a framework to peer

    educators on how work with people infected

    and affected by HIV/AIDS. The main focus is on

    children and young people, aged from five to

    nineteen, and their families or care givers.

    This guide booklet is based on facts from a

    workshop organized by Kawempe Youth

    Development Association (KYDA) and

    literature about HIV/AIDS. The overall

    objective of the work shop was for Peer

    Educators to gain basic counseling and helpingskills for children living with HIV/AIDS. It was

    th thorganized from 6 to 10 August 2010 in

    conjunction with trainers from The Aids

    Support Organization (TASO) and KawempeHealth Center.

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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

    KYDA wishes to acknowledge the financial

    support from the Stephen Lewis Foundation

    (SLF) of Canada that enabled the

    development of this peer educator's guide.

    The Administration highly gives gratitude to

    Mr. Otal McBernard the Executive Director

    KYDA, Dr. Kasozi Francis In -Charge

    Buwambo Health Centre IV, Ms. Nakabugo

    Gorret M.A (Sociology) Trainer and Mrs.

    Sendaula Sarah Counselor positive living and

    Nutrition in children Kawempe Health Centre

    for their moral and technical input into this

    guide. This guide was also type setted,

    compiled and made it a reality by full

    commitment and efforts from Melina Laukka

    and Asiimwe Dorcus social workers from

    KYDA. Their hard work is highly indebted.

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    KYDA is further grateful to the community HIV

    + Children Peer Educators for providing

    information on various topics, participation insharing of testimonies, materials development

    workshop and the actual training were the ideas

    for this guide were conceived. We are equally

    delighted for their relentless efforts and wisecontributions without which this guide probably

    would not have seen the light of the sun.

    KYDA handsomely extends its sincere thanks to

    all those not mentioned but dully contributed tothe timey completion of this Peer User Guide

    Booklet, May God reward them handsomely.

    Mr. Otal McBernard

    Director of KYDA (Team Leader)

    Kawempe

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    The technical team which actively

    participated in preparation of this Peer

    educator's guide booklet comprised of;

    1. Mr. Otal McBernard Director KYDA

    (Team Leader)

    2. Dr.Kasozi Francis In-Charge Buwambo

    Health Centre IV.

    3. Ms.Nakabugo GorretChild and

    Adolescent Counselor

    Trainer (TASO). Kanyanya.

    4. Ms. Sendaula Sarah Nutrition specialist

    for HIV+ Children,

    Kawempe. Health centre.

    Other KYDA Staff:

    5. Ms. Kiwuka Josephine Project officer.

    6. Ms. Laukka Melina Repportuers to the

    committee.

    7. Ms.Asiimwe Dorcus

    8. Mr. Kabuye.k. Shaban Counselor for

    children KYDA.

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    CONTENTS

    Forewords 2

    Acknowledgment 4

    1. Basic facts about HIV/AIDS 8

    2. Peer Educator 9

    2.1. Peer educators' main tasks and

    basic skills in dealing with children

    3. HIV/AIDS care and support 14

    3.1. Stigma faced by children

    and how to handle stigma

    3.2. Positive living for children

    3.3. Peer to peer counseling

    3.4. Nutrition and HIV

    4. How to work in practice 26

    4.1. Community mobilization

    4.2. Home visiting

    ?4.3. Recording and report writing 30

    ?4.4. Referral 32

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    1. Basic facts about HIV/AIDS

    Terms:

    HIV = Human Immune-deficiency Virus

    AIDS= Acquired Immune DeficiencySyndrome

    ART = Anti-retroviral Therapy

    Fast facts:

    33.4 million people live with HIV/AIDSworldwide.

    30 million people live with HIV/AIDS in

    low- and middle-income countries

    67 percent of all people living with

    HIV/AIDS are in sub-Saharan Africa2.1 million children with HIV/AIDS

    worldwide at the end of 2008 and 1.8

    million of them lived in sub-Saharan

    Africa at the end of 2007

    Two million people died from HIV/AIDSworldwide in 2008

    2.7 million people were newly infected

    with HIV worldwide in 2008 and

    430 000 of them were children under 15

    years.

    [Source: WHO 2009]

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    Statistics in Uganda:

    The current HIV prevalence in Uganda

    is estimated at 6.4% among adults and

    0.7% among children.HIV prevalence is higher in urban areas

    (10% prevalence) than rural areas

    (6%)

    The number of new infections was

    estimated 111,000 in the year 2008The number of annual AIDS deaths was

    61,000 in the year 2008

    Women are excessively affected,

    accounting for 57% of all adults living

    with HIV. Ugandan women tend tomarry and become sexually active at a

    younger age than their male

    counterparts. They often have older

    and more sexually experienced

    partners. This (plus various biological

    and social factors) puts young women

    at greater risk of infection [Source:

    Government of Uganda 2010]

    2. Peer Educator

    Peer Educator, also called as a Community

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    Educator, is a person who is living in the same

    circumstances as others. These kinds of

    circumstances are for example age, gender,

    culture, subculture, ethnicity and place of

    residence. When it comes specifically to

    HIV/AIDS, a good peer educator has a wide

    knowledge base about the disease and owns

    various methods of passing it to the

    community. A good peer educator workingwith HIV/AIDS affected and infected children

    often holds some, or all, of the following

    characteristics:

    Be well informed and holds a basic

    information about HIV/AIDS

    Be able to transfer the information to

    others

    Have some basics counseling skills and

    love working with children.

    Committed to working with children.

    Should avoid stigmatizing and

    judgment

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    Be open minded

    Good communication- and interpersonal

    skills

    Good listener and holds confidentiality

    Empathetic and emotionally strong

    Approachable

    Owns self-respect

    2.1. Peer educators main tasks and

    basic skills in dealing with children

    Peer educators working with HIV/AIDS positive

    children have the following tasks a head of

    them:

    Developing activity plans.

    Being updated with information

    regarding HIV/AIDS among children.

    Mobilizing communities for HIV/AIDS

    r e l a t e d a c t i v i t i e s .

    e.g. counseling and testing.

    Working as a link between community

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    members and service providers.

    Indentifying HIV/AIDS related problems

    of children and bringing them to the

    awareness of supervisors e.g.

    counselors and social workers.

    Providing home care to children.

    Monitoring positive children and making

    proper referrals.

    Keeping and maintaining records for

    report writing.

    To put those tasks in practice it is important to

    h a v e g o o d c o m m u n i c a t i o n s k i l l s .

    Communication is the process of sending and

    receiving messages so that both people

    understand the messages as intended.

    Everybody has their own way to communicate

    with other people but it is good to be aware of

    the fact that there exists both verbal and non

    verbal communication as shown below on the

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    table. You have to observe both.

    Before taking an action peer educator should

    gather information about the task and set the

    goals and plan how to fulfill those tasks

    Verbal communication

    - Face to face

    communication

    - Spoken language

    Non verbal Communication

    - Facial expression- Using hands and eyes- Sitting and standingpostures

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    It also matters how you, as a peer educator,

    approach children and young people affected

    by HIV/AIDS. You can use active listening

    (paying attention), checking understanding,

    asking and answering questions as basic skills

    of effective communication.

    What to be considered in order to

    achieve effective listening:

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    R Relaxed R

    Be Open O

    L Lean forward towards the person L

    E Keep Eye contact with the peer E

    S Sit near the peer S

    People living with HIV/AIDS have a wide range

    of care and support needs. Peer educators

    helping skills can be used to provide emotional

    support and empowerment to the person inneed. Helping refers to a situation of peer

    educator assisting parents/guardians and

    children to overcome understand or cope with

    a problem in their lives. This can be donethrough encouragement and emotional

    support. However, in order to support peers,

    peer educators need to first establish trust

    from the children and their parents. Trust is

    3. HIV/AIDS care and support

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    essential for building a relationship

    between the peer educators and the

    children.

    When children and youngsters are diagnosed

    with HIV/AIDS, they often face stigma from the

    people around them and even from themselves. The disease may be associated with

    ways of behavior that are considered socially

    unacceptable by many people and therefore

    HIV infection is widely stigmatized. In other

    words, stigma means negative thoughts aboutthe children based on their HIV status. Many

    have been thrown out of homes, rejected by

    family and friends, and some have even been

    killed. A child or young person may also end up

    doing self stigmatizing themselves throughthinking or feeling negatively about him/her

    self based on perceived beliefs that other

    people threat them negatively. It can lead to

    school drop outs, unemployment, low self-

    esteem, family breaks ups, depression andeven suicide. It is therefore vital to address HIV

    3.1. Stigma faced by children and how to handle stigma

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    stigma in order to improve the quality of lives of

    children with HIV/AIDS.

    Stigma may occur in different areas in life. It

    may be caused by the following situations:

    Fear of taking responsibility of young

    people through blaming them about

    their status.

    Lack of protective laws to protect people

    against being stigmatized.

    Lack of treatment and support.

    Ignorance about the causes of

    HIV/AIDS.

    Religious and cultural beliefs that

    surrounds HIV/AIDS.

    Stigma can be handled in the following

    ways:

    Counseling for the infected children and

    youngsters together with their family or

    caretaker.By showing love and care.

    Giving Peer support.

    Encouraging children and young people

    through educating them about stigma.

    Positive living involves a life style that fosters3.2. Positive living for children

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    physical, mental and spiritual health.

    Positive Living is:

    When a person develops a positive

    outlook towards his/her life.It involves adopting practices and

    lifestyles that aims at improving the

    quality of life and reducing the

    transmission of HIV.

    These behaviors are meant to delayprogression from HIV to AIDS by

    keeping the childs immunity high.

    How to achieve positive living:

    Frequently necessary.

    Supporting adherence to septrin to

    prevent infections.

    Provide adequate nutrition.

    Immunization.

    Promote the regular monitoring ofgrowth and development.

    Prevention of infections like malaria.

    Facilitate social support, peers, siblings.

    Providing all the basic needs.

    Emotional support and counseling.

    Love and belonging.

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    Safe water and hygiene,

    hygiene.

    Providing education.

    Providing ART.

    The great majority of people with AIDS in low

    and middle-income countries are cared for at

    home, since health services are beyond the

    reach of large proportions of the population.

    Community care and support groups have

    sprung up almost everywhere in the world where

    the AIDS epidemic has appeared and it has

    shown good results through providing comfort

    and hope to people living with, or affected by,

    HIV. When it comes to children's /young people's

    well being, peer to peer networks are significant.

    Person can get support through hearing from

    other peers, who are in the same situation or

    through sharing their experiences. And if there

    arises need for counseling, then fellow peers can

    environmental

    3.3. Peer to peer counseling

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    be easier to approach. Below are some of the

    principles to follow in peer counseling:

    Keep confidentiality of client's

    information.

    Do not judge clients and be sensitive to

    client's feelings.

    Respect client's decision.

    Be trusted and truthful.

    Recognize your l imitat ions in

    counseling. Recognize your own

    resources and potential; you don't have

    to know everything.

    Understand the context of the situation

    and respond appropriately.

    Accept the client as she/he is.

    Recognize each adolescent's unique

    qualities. Everybody has their own way

    to cope in the difficult situations.

    Give correct information; too much

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    information at once can confuse clients.

    Give information, not advice.

    Use clear and simple language

    .

    Good nutrition plays an important role in

    maintaining the health of people living with

    HIV. Adequate nutrition is essential to

    maintain a person's immune system, tosustain healthy levels of physical activity, and

    for a quality of life. Adequate nutrition is also

    necessary for optimal benefits if receiving

    antiretroviral therapy.

    When it comes particularly to children with

    HIV/AIDS it is good to keep in mind that they

    are like other children; their bodies are

    especially sensitive to nutrition. All childrenmust eat well to grow properly. On top of the

    normal demands of growth, HIV-positive

    children must cope with the extra demands that

    the virus places on their bodies.

    3.4. Nutrition and HIV

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    Facing these demands can sometimes be hard

    to the family or care givers. As a parent or

    guardian of a child with HIV, it is easy to worryabout your child's nutritional needs. Children

    living with a HIV can easily have a poor

    appetite and have little interest in food and

    they can feel full quickly. Therefore, they ofteneat very slowly and tend to be picky eaters.

    This can sometimes make meals very difficult.

    They are also suffering from the same

    problems like adults with HIV, such as,diarrhea, nausea and metabolic problems,

    which make it even harder for them to eat.

    When children grow into their teenage years,

    the challenges continue, when they became

    more independent and when they have more

    responsibility for their chronic condition.

    HIV-positive children should have ongoing

    nutritional care at a pediatric centre to make

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    sure they stay healthy and grow properly. If

    growth is slow, boosting nutrition will be a vital

    part

    of the treatment plan. The first step will beto change the child's diet to increase calories

    and protein. Thus, a lot of things can be done at

    home. One of the peer educator's tasks is to

    provide accurate information about nutrition tothe families and to young people.

    Importance of good nutrition to people with

    HIV/AIDS:

    It prevents malnutrition and improves

    their quality of life.

    It strengthens the immune system and

    reduces the duration of illness.

    It improves the effectiveness of

    medication in the treatment of illness.

    It provides energy, nutrients and

    improves the physical performance of

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    the body.

    It delays the progression of HIV/AIDS.

    How children get malnourished? :

    Through eating food of poor quality.

    Through eating inadequate variety of

    foods.

    Through long lasting illnesses.

    Through loss of appetite.

    Through poor hygiene and sanitation.

    Through inadequate care for those

    who are most likely to be affected by

    malnutrition.

    Inability to access the kind of food

    and health care that meet their needs

    (e.g. result from the poverty or

    resources for social and health care)

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    How to eat when suffering from HIV/AIDS? :

    Have at least three meals and two

    snacks in a day.

    Increase consumption of foods from all

    groups.

    Add a little sugar or oil to food or

    drinks.

    Chew food well.

    Rinse mouth regularly with boiled salty

    water (to kill bacteria's)

    How to deal with loss of appetite? :

    Eat meals and snacks frequently at

    regular intervals.

    Use favorite foods and spices to boost

    appetite.

    Avoid strong smelling foods if they

    affects your appetite.

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    Avoid alcohol, smoking, drugs or

    medicines that are not prescribed by

    your health worker.

    Ask your family and friends to prepare

    meals for you.

    Have meals in the company of friends

    or relatives.

    Exercise regularly (e.g. walking,

    cycling, house hold duties)

    Avoid drinks high in sugar.

    Drink plenty of boiled or treated

    water.

    Eat after taking medication (Note:Take the health workers advice)

    Deworm at regular intervals.

    4. How to work in practice

    4.1. Community mobilization

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    Community mobilization is a process of

    bringing people together for a desired purpose.

    Community mobilization is typically plannedand organized for people to participate and

    evaluate their activities for self reliance and

    sustainability. Peer educators can try to

    mobilize the community in various ways suchas drumming, posters, announcements, letter

    writing, home visiting and through mass

    media.

    Community mobilization has the followingadvantages:

    Brings people together.

    It facilitates work to be done.

    People realize the need for collective

    effort.

    Activities are sustained and therefore

    people can build up commitments.

    People learn from each other.

    Saves time and money.

    Results appear in a short time.

    Builds a sense of belonging.

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    Peer educators can more easily reach people

    and mobilize them in the places that they gather

    together. Those places may be:

    Churches.

    Clubs.

    Social gatherings.

    Funerals.

    Community meetings.

    4.2. Home visiting

    In order to communicate and reach families in

    local communities, it is important to also provide

    help to homes through home visiting. Even

    though peer educators organize meetings,

    clients may not get enough information out of

    them. They may not open up in a group or they

    may even fail to come. Hence, home visiting is

    necessary in caring and supporting children and

    care givers.

    Importance of home visiting:

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    It gives clear assessment of the needs

    of children and caregivers within their

    local environment.

    It gives an opportunity to children and

    their families within a relaxed and in a

    common setting.

    It helps to identify children who require

    referral for other services.

    It reduces fear and eliminates

    discrimination and stigmatization

    within the family and community.

    It promotes behavior change for

    children, families and communities.

    It fosters acceptability and positive

    living among children, families and

    communities.

    Issues to consider in home visiting:

    Transport.

    Funds.

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    Human resources e.g. people trained to

    do the home visiting.

    Time.IEC ( In fo rmat i on Educa t i on

    Communication) materials.

    Steps taken in conducting a home visit:

    Announce arrival.Settle down.

    Exchange greetings.

    Introduce your self ( Your name, where

    is your organization located, your role)Introduce purpose of the visit.

    Carry out intended activity.

    Set goals for the next visit.

    Summarize the visit.

    Thank people you have visited.

    Make appointment for next visit.

    Make records if possible.

    Say good bye.

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    4.3. Recording and report writing

    Recording:

    In any intervention, record keeping is a critical

    step since it provides information for follow up,

    provides accountability and keeps track of

    activities done by peer educators in the

    community.

    Methods used in record keeping:

    Report writing.

    Documentaries.

    Filing.

    Stores.

    Library.Record keeping has the following advantages:

    Helps us to monitor and evaluate

    progress.

    Records act as references.

    They help us remember what we havedone.

    Record keeping helps in planning and

    noticing the best practices.

    It increases accountability.

    After recording what you have done and

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    how you have worked with a client, you

    write a report. A Report can be a spoken

    or written account of something heard,

    seen or done.

    Characteristics of a good report:

    Concise and precise.

    Straight to the point.

    Short sentences.

    Clear to the reader.

    Simple language.

    Flow of ideas.

    Target the readers' attention.

    Write it soon after meeting a client to

    memorize.

    Remember to update records.

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    4.4. Referral

    Place to contact/ get more information and

    help:

    MU-JHU CARE LTD/PEER PSYCHOSOCIALSUPPORT GROUPS (Makerere University Medical

    School, P.O. Box 23491, Kampala)

    The John Hopkins University (P.O. Box

    23491, Kampala)

    Reproductive Health Uganda(RHU)Former Family Planning Association of

    Uganda(FPAU), Plot 2 Katego Road Off

    Kira Road P.O. Box 10746, Kampala

    MILDMAY UGANDA, Transforming HIV

    care (Entebbe Road P.O. Box 24985)TASO, The AIDS support organization

    (Kanyanya, P.O. Box 10443, Kampala)

    BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE:

    CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION UGANDA

    (Mulago Hospital P.O. Box 72052, Clock Tower)

    KASANGATI HEALTH CENTRE.

    BUWAMBO HEALTH CENTRE.

    KAWANDA HEALTH CENTRE.

    KAWEMPE HEALTH CENTRE.

    KAWEMPE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

    ASSOCIATION (KYDA)

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    GLOSSARY

    Alcohol/drug dependency: The use of non-

    sterile injecting drug equipment is one of the

    most efficient modes of HIV transmission and

    remains one of the critical activities fuelling

    HIV epidemics among drug users. Other

    dependencies such as alcohol and non-

    injecting drugs may also create vulnerabilities

    to transmission and infection.

    Bereavement Support: Support for people

    dealing with grief due to the loss of a loved one.

    Care for Orphans and Vulnerable

    Children: Support and guidance for children

    under the age of 18 who have lost parents

    and/or caregivers, and children who are at risk

    of abuse, mistreatment, or exploitation.

    Child headed house hold: House hold where

    everyone who are living there are younger than

    18 years old.

    Education and Vocational Training:

    Learning new skills and/or taking classes.

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    Food Security and Nutrition: The

    availability of food and one's access to it. A

    household is considered food secure when its

    occupants do not live in hunger or fear of

    starvation.

    Gender: Addressing widely held beliefs,

    expectations, customs and practices within a

    society that define 'masculine' and 'feminine'

    attributes, behaviors and roles and

    responsibilities.

    Grand Mothers/ Guardians: Maternal or

    paternal grandparent or guardian, who looks

    after, protects or is legally appointed to

    manage the affairs of another person, such as

    a child.

    HIV Prevention and Behavior Change:

    Transmission of HIV is mediated directly by

    human behavior, therefore changing

    behaviors' that enable HIV transmission.

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    Health workers/Caregivers: Hospital/clinic

    staff, public health, health outreach workers,

    family and community caregivers.

    HIV Testing and Counseling: HIV tests are

    used to detect the presence of the human

    immunodeficiency virus in serum, saliva, or

    urine. As per UNAIDS/WHO guidelines all

    testing, whether client or provider-initiated

    should be conducted under the conditions of the

    Three Cs: involve informed consent, be

    confidential, and include counseling.

    HIV and Disability: Addressing the unique

    risks of HIV for people with disabilities. This may

    include physical barriers to access appropriate

    HIV prevention and support services, as well as

    vulnerability in the community because of

    limited livelihood opportunities and/or stigma

    and discrimination.

    HIV + children: Children living with HIV/AIDS.

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    Home-Based Care Any form of holistic home-

    based care given to those in need, and which

    strengthens the capacity of and support for

    community health workers. Such care includes

    physical, psychosocial, palliative, and spiritual

    activities.

    Medical access, diagnostics, medical care:

    Obstacles to medical access include the cost for

    ARV treatment, as well as the health

    infrastructure required to deliver ARV's and

    provide diagnostic services. Access to

    treatment depends not only on financial and

    human resources but also on people who need

    them being aware of their HIV status,

    knowledgeable about treatment, and

    empowered to seek it.

    Orphans and vulnerable children: These are

    children who suffer from physical, mental or

    environmental stress that is based on a set of

    :

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    criteria/standards bear substantive risks when

    compared to other children.

    Opportunistic Infections: Illnesses causedby various organisms, some of which usually do

    not cause disease in persons with healthy

    immune systems. For example, Tuberculosis is

    the leading HIV-associated opportunisticinfection in developing countries.

    People living with HIV and AIDS (PLWA):

    Those who have been diagnosed with

    HIV/AIDS.Persons with Disabilities: Those who have

    some disability or infirmity (physical and/or

    mental)

    Palliative Care: An approach which improves

    the quality of life of patients and their families

    facing life-threatening illness, through the

    prevention, assessment and treatment of pain

    and other physical, psychosocial and spiritual

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    problems.

    Psychosocial Support: Support to address

    the ongoing psychological and social problemsof people living with HIV or AIDS, their

    partners, families and caregivers.

    Positive prevention: Is a strategy that aims

    at contributing to the reduction of HIVtransmission by building the capacity of people

    having AIDS and the general community to

    scale up HIV/ STI prevention.

    P o v e r t y A l l e v i a t i o n / E c o n o m i c

    Livelihoods/ Income Generation:

    Processes that seek to reduce the level of

    poverty in a community, or amongst a group of

    people or individuals. Programs are aimed at

    decreasing economic poverty through

    economic development and income generating

    activities.

    Prevention of vertical transmission

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    (PMTCT): Prevention of transmission of HIV

    from mother to fetus or baby during pregnancy or

    birth.Protection: Efforts to keep PLWHA, their

    partners, families and caregivers safe. For

    example efforts to provide legal or human rights

    protection for PLWHA.

    Public outreach: Efforts by individuals in an

    organization or group to connect its ideas or

    practices to the general public. Activities typically

    take on an educational component but may

    conceive their outreach strategy as a two-way

    street in which outreach is framed as

    engagement rather than solely dissemination or

    education.

    Sexual and Reproductive Health and Family

    Planning: Addressing the reproductive

    processes, functions and systems at all stages of

    life, is aimed at enabling men and women to have

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    responsible, satisfying and safe sex lives, as

    well as the capacity and freedom to plan if, when

    and how often to have children.Shelter and Material support: Provision of

    housing or monetary support which may take

    the form of government benefits, food, clothing,

    furnishings, medical equipment, transportationetc.

    Stigma and discrimination: AddressingHIV

    infection as widely stigmatized and that people

    living with the virus are frequently subject to

    discrimination and human rights abuses based

    on their positive status.

    Street children: Includes children who work in

    the streets and markets of cities selling or

    begging, and live with their families, as well as

    homeless children who work, live and sleep in

    the streets, often lacking any contact with their

    families.

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    Treatment access, readiness, and

    adherence: Addressing barriers to accessing

    treatment and providing education, support andcounseling to support informed choices about

    treatment options and access to and adherence

    with prescribed treatments.

    Training: Any classes, field training, skillsbuilding workshops and mentoring.

    Target groups: This refers to the persons that

    the resource

    Youth: Persons between the ages of 15 and 24years of age (based on UN definition).

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    Acronyms

    AIDS= Acquired Immune Deficiency SyndromeART = Anti-retroviral Therapy

    ARV = Anti- viral drugs

    HIV = Human Immune-deficiency Virus

    IEC = Information Education Communication

    PLWHA = People living with HIV and AIDS

    PMTCT = Prevention of mother to child

    transmission

    STI = Sexually transmitted infections

    UN = United Nations

    WHO = World Health Organization

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    References

    Peer User Pocket Book, Drug Abuse: Peer-to-

    Peer Prevention Program, UYDEL (2003).

    Peer educators training Manual organized by

    KYDA in partnership with trainers from TASO andth thKawempe health centre (6 10 of September

    2010). (un published)

    Positive Prevention Counseling, A Training

    Course for Peer Educators, Participants' notes

    (2007).UNGASS COUNTRY PROGRESS REPORT

    UGANDA, January 2008-December 2009.

    Government of Uganda (2010).

    http://www.avert.org/aids-uganda.htm

    http://www.catie.ca/ng_e.nsf(A Practical

    Guide to Nutrition for People Living with HIV)

    http://www.unaids.org

    http://www.who.int/en/

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    Kawempe Youth Development Association(KYDA)

    Located Jinja Kawempe Zone A Near St.benard P/sPO Box: 71976 Clock Tower Kampala