Abstract
Methods Family Health International (FHI) and Oxygen Research and Development Forum (ORDF) conceptualized a process of Care and Support IEC material development involving local PLWHA consultants. Two groups of four consultants each worked for six months and adapted booklets 1 through 5 developed in Cambodia by FHI/ USAID to the Nepali context. The booklets provide information along with sketches about HIV/AIDS, nutritional needs of PLWHA, stigma and discrimination, social and family support, taking care of one’s body and health, income generation, OIs and ARVs etc. The users of the booklet are individual outreach educators who work with illiterate vulnerable communities across Nepal.
Highlights
There is a scarcity of IEC materials necessary in disseminating information about HIV/AIDS to the most at risk and hard to reach populations, in particular information regarding stigma and discrimination faced by PLWHA
For ensuring the design of effective IEC materials related to HIV/AIDS, it is imperative that local PLWHA be involved in the planning, design, pretest and launch phases
Those involved in the process should have real knowledge of the issues that are of utmost importance to the targeted users
Summary
There is a scarcity of IEC materials necessary in disseminating information about HIV/AIDS to the most at risk and hard to reach populations, in particular information regarding stigma and discrimination faced by PLWHA. Involvement of PLWHA in designing such IEC is virtually non existent
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