Training

Training program managers, healthcare providers, community leaders and individuals in MCP will allow for comprehensive MCP programs that work to increase awareness of the risks associated with MCP, promote MCP reduction and reduce transmission of HIV associated with MCP. Program managers and healthcare providers can be trained to provide counsling on HIV and HIV prevention, promote condom use and to undertand and address the issue of stigma and discrimination often experienced by people living with HIV. This section of the Toolkit contains a variety of training tools and guidelines for program managers, healthcare providers, peer educators, and other people who work within settings where MCP is common. Information and resources on the following topics can be accessed by clicking on the links below:

Partner Reduction and Prevention

Training Resources for Counseling on HIV

Training Resources on Stigma and Discrimination

Training Peer Educators

A more comprehensive collection of training resources on HIV counseling and reducing stigma can be found in the training section of K4Health's Family Planning and HIV Services Integration Toolkit. Additional resoures on condom promotion and use can be found in training section of K4Health's Condom Use Toolkit.

Partner Reduction and Prevention

Partner Reduction and Protection: Outreach Guide 10

updated | Pact/Botswana | 48 p

English

This practical 48-page outreach guide with picture codes details 18 exercises aimed at educating participants about partner reduction and condom use. Some of the exercise titles include "Personal Risk Assessment," "Double Standards," "Excuses not to Use Condoms," "Condom Relay Games," and "Encouraging Reluctant Partners." Case scenarios (such as a young woman with a poor boyfriend and a married sugar daddy) along with a series of related questions provide structured guides for discussion and education.

updated | Population Services International (PSI) | 24 p

English

The flipchart has 11 question sheets with accompanying pictures to stimulate discussion among people participating in HIV prevention group discussions. The topics cover multiple partners, assessing risk, condom use, interspousal communication, sexually transmitted infections, voluntary counseling and testing, gender and HIV, and drug and alcohol abuse.

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Dual Protection

no date | World Health Organization (WHO) | 5 p

English

This short PowerPoint document shows providers how to counsel clients on the risks of pregnancy and HIV and explains the merits of dual protection that condoms offer.

no date | Unknown | 2 p

English

This document helps providers assess a client’s ability to communicate with her partner. It explains how to identify barriers to a client's use of the female condom and strategies to overcome them.

2011 | Academy of Educational Development (AED) | C-Change | 32 p

Toolkit |

Facilitator's Guide |

Community Mobilizer's Guide

C-Change and partners developed the Community Conversation Toolkit (for HIV prevention) to mobilize adults ages 20 and over to take action to prevent HIV within their communities. The toolkit is intended to complement existing HIV prevention activities and address key drivers of the HIV epidemic (concurrency, cross-generational sex, gender-based violence, and alcohol abuse). The entire toolkit includes Roleplay Cards, Storytelling Finger Puppets, Promotional-Proverbs Throw Boxes and Best-Kept-Secrets Throw Boxes, Promotional Playing Cards and Dialogue Buttons.

2003 | Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) | 87 p

English

This curriculum is intended for family planning trainers who are incorporating the female condom and dual protection into the services offered by community-level workers. The curriculum can be used by community-based distributors (CBDs), community health workers (CHWs), peer educators (PEs), traditional birth attendants (TBAs), and other community-level workers.

2002 | Program for Appropriate Technology in Health [PATH] | 69 p

English

This handbook offers 45 games, tips on getting started, guidance on creating your own games, ready-to-use card sets, and the research and theory behind it all. "Condom Demonstration and Icebreakers", a game to introduce the correct use of condoms, appears on page 15.

2001 | EngenderHealth | 307 p

English

Men As Partners: A Program for Supplementing the Training of Life Skills Educators, 2nd Edition, is intended for use in working with men both to address gender norms that put men and their partners at risk for negative reproductive health outcomes. It is also designed to engage men in issues related to gender and reproductive health to prevent HIV infection and gender-based violence.

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Training Resources for Counseling on HIV

Provider-Initiated HIV Testing and Counselling: One-Day Training Programme

2011 | World Health Organization (WHO) | 39 p

English

This course targets health care providers who have the responsibility for establishing and implementing the provider-initiated approach to HIV testing and counseling. This includes health care providers in the public, NGO and private sectors. Priority health care delivery settings include STI clinics, antenatal clinics, TB treatment facilities, and services for injecting drug users, men who have sex with men and sex workers. In settings with generalized epidemics, HIV testing can be offered as part of any clinical contact for adults and children.

2008 | FHI

Toolkit

This toolkit contains an extensive set of practical, easy-to-use resources that can be used to train health care providers to offer contraceptives to their clients with HIV, to inform health care professionals about the latest research and technical guidance related to the provision of contraception to people with HIV, and to help program managers and policy makers develop program strategies for integrating family planning and HIV prevention, care, and treatment services.

2008 | Population Council

Algorithm |

Toolkit for Family Planning Service Providers Working in High HIV/STI Prevalence Settings (BCS+) is an interactive, client-friendly approach for improving counseling on family planning and prevention, detection, and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV. The BCS+ was adapted from the Balanced Counseling Strategy, an evidence-based and well-researched tool for improving counseling on contraceptive methods.

2007 | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]

Trainer's Manual- Introduction |

Trainer's Manual- Module 1: Background of CHCT and Discordance |

Trainer's Manual- Module 2: Introduction to Couple Counseling Skills |

Trainer's Manual- Module 3: Initial Session of the CHCT Intervention |

Trainer's Manual- Module 4: Providing Concordant Negative Results |

Trainer's Manual- Module 5: Providing Concordant Positive Results |

Trainer's Manual- Module 6: Providing Discordant Results |

Trainer's Manual- Module 7: Support and Prevention Services |

Trainer's Manual- Module 8: Outreach and Recruitment |

Participant's Manual- Introduction |

Participant's Manual- Module 1: Background of CHCT and Discordance |

Participant's Manual- Module 2: Introduction to Couple Counseling Skills |

Participant's Manual- Module 3: Initial Session of the CHCT Intervention |

Participant's Manual- Module 4: Providing Concordant Negative Results |

Participant's Manual- Module 5: Providing Concordant Positive Results |

Participant's Manual- Module 6: Providing Discordant Results |

Participant's Manual- Module 7: Support and Prevention Services |

Participant's Manual- Module 8: Outreach and Recruitment

Through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has collaborated with the Rwanda Zambia HIV Research Group (RZHRG), the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), and other national and international partners to develop the Couples HIV Counseling and Testing (CHCT) Intervention and Training Curriculum.

2005 | Uganda Ministry of Health | 302 p

English

This manual has been developed to equip providers of HIV counseling and testing with skills and knowledge necessary to deliver high-quality services in a range of approaches and settings. It reflects the evolving policies of the Government of Uganda and the Ministry of Health and is recommended as the resource for all HIV counseling and training conducted in Uganda.

2002 | EngenderHealth | 279 p

Manual |

Handouts

EngenderHealth developed Integration of HIV/STI Prevention, Sexuality, and Dual Protection in Family Planning Counseling: A Training Manual to increase providers' comfort in addressing sensitive issues related to sexuality, gender, and HIV and AIDS, and to clarify the values and overcome the biases necessary to do so. This two-volume set (manual and handouts) features participatory exercises on sexuality and gender; STI transmission (including HIV), prevention, and dual protection; integrated counseling skills; and other trainers' resources.

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Training Resources on Stigma and Discrimiation

Sexual and Reproductive Health for HIV-positive Women and Adolescent Girls: A Manual for Trainers and Programme Managers

2006 | EngenderHealth | 239 p

English |

French |

Portuguese |

Russian |

Spanish

Developed in collaboration with the International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW), Sexual and Reproductive Health for HIV-Positive Women and Adolescent Girls: A Manual for Trainers and Programme Managers provides information and a structure for a four-day training and a two-day planning workshop. These will enable program managers and health workers to provide comprehensive, nonjudgmental, and high-quality SRH care and support to HIV-positive women and adolescent girls. The manual is designed for a local context with limited resources.

2004 | EngenderHealth | 93 p

Trainer's Manual (English) |

Participant's Handbook (English) |

Trainer's Manual (French) |

Participant's Handbook (French)

A comprehensive curriculum designed to address the serious issues of stigma and discrimination related to HIV and AIDS in health care settings. Focuses on the impact of HIV and AIDS on provider behaviors, ensuring clients' rights in receiving health care services, and improving standard precautions and postexposure care. Provides guidance in developing action plans to help the participants put what they have learned into practice at their service settings.

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Trainer's Guide in Sexual Health

2003 | International Planned Parenthood Federation | 512 p

English

This manual is designed to train educators, counselors and other health care providers in sexual health. It covers counseling, gender identity, sexuality and adolescence, negotiation and safer sex, sexuality and family planning, and training and learning.

2003 | International Center for Research on Women (ICWR) | CHANGE Project | 188 p

English

This toolkit was designed for nongovernmental organizations, community groups, and HIV educators to raise awareness and promote actions to challenge HIV stigma and discrimination. Based on research in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia, the toolkit contains more than 125 exercises.

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Training Peer Educators

Peer Education (Module 1) Training Manual

no date | Unknown | 21 p

English

This resource provides general information about peer education and includes activities for peer educators as part of a training activity.

no date | FHI | 128 p

English

This guide was developed by the Nigeria office of Family Health International to equip volunteers with skills to help prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV/AIDS. The Peer-to-Peer guide is intended for trainers who will train peer educators. The trained peer educators will, in turn, be expected to take up the challenge to educate their peers on HIV prevention.

2003 | UN Interagency Group on Young Peoples Health Development and Protection in Europe and Central Asia | 188 p

English

The training of trainers manual that provides information about peer education theory and includes a multi-day training program for the training of trainers with detailed activities and appendices. This resource focuses specifically on the training of trainers of peer educators and provides an example of a training program.

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