International AIDS Conference 2010

Vienna, Austria

Peer Ethnographers

• Interesting approach.• Making use of target audience to ‘infiltrate’

into their own community to collect data.• Qualitative data/field notes.• Especially useful for hard to reach population,

to understand their attitudes & perspective towards a certain issue.

• Train peer ethnographers with relevant skills.

Parents as educators• Several posters and presentations on parents

as educators.• Importance of early ‘intervention’ where

parents communicates with their children on sexuality to reduce initiation of risk behaviours in their teenage years.

• Several barriers were shared e.g. fear, embarrassment, lack of confident & ability to communicate etc.

Engaging Faith Based Organisations• Faith based intervention seemed

to be effective among adult population.

• Youth seemed to be less attracted to activities by FBO.

• There is a need for FBO to design programmes targeting youths.

• There is a need to work at the pace of the FBOs rather than forcing our agenda and timeline onto them.

Online Intervention for Youths• Intervention developed based on 200

youths’ qualitative feedback.• Identified barriers to safe sex with casual &

steady partners & STI screening. • Barriers translated into online training

modules based on information, motivation and behavioural skills model by Fisher & Fisher.

• E.g. one of the lessons include reaching better sensitisation when using a condom.

HIV/AIDS education/intervention is tough.

Perseverance is key to success.