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August's featured online dialogue focused on HIV/AIDS Prevention. The New Tactics project decided to keep the momentum going from the International HIV/AIDS Conference held in Mexico City this month, by hosting this important dialogue on HIV/AIDS Prevention tactics. It's not too late to join our dialogue practitioners working in this field and share your experiences, challenges, successes and questions as well as gain ideas and tools to apply to your efforts.
Our featured resoure practitioners include:
- Sarah Kalloch of the Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) (USA)
- Dr. Syed Asif Altaf of the International Transport Workers Federation
- Nathalie Applewhite of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting (Jamaica and Haiti)
- Pablo Frisch of Intercambios Asociación Civil (Argentina)
- Lorraine Teel and others of the Minnesota AIDS Project (USA)
- Lucrecia Jose Wamba of the Southern Africa AIDS Trust (SAT) (Mozambique)
Click here for biographical information on this month's featured resource practitioners.
Please add your comments, experiences, successes, challenges, and questions below under the 7 main themes:
- Introduction: HIV Prevention and Human Rights
- Community capacity-building, outreach, and education
- Raising awareness
- Treatment, care and support
- Social research on HIV/AIDS
- Advocacy
- Measuring Impact
Using pictures to raise awareness
Pictures may be a helpful tool in raising awareness about HIV/AIDS. Humuliza of
Tanzania and Pact in Botswana are two organizations that have introduced
pictures in their HIV/AIDS prevention efforts. The pictures are used to
stimulate and facilitate discussion on important issues surrounding HIV/AIDS.
uses pictures to be used in group outreach sessions to stimulate discussion
around behaviours which put people at risk of HIV infection. Pact uses real
photographs of real people in situations which provide choices for specific
behaviours. Accompanying each photograph is a list of questions for the outreach
worker to ask group participants in order to stimulate discussion. These are
followed by a list of "talking points" or information the outreach worker can
share with participants. The picture codes also come with a set of instructions
on how to best use them as an educational resource. To download these pictures,
go to http://www.comminit.com/en/node/269867/38.
collaboration with artist John Kilaka, has created a collection of pictures
inspired by the "Tingatinga" style, a Tanzanian style of painting using images
of African wild animals. By portraying animals instead of people to facilitate
discussion about issues surrounding HIV/AIDS, the producers hope to reduce
stigma and the reinforcement of negative stereotypes that may accompany pictures
of humans. The pictures come with corresponding guidelines to encourage
discussion. To download these pictures and for more information about this
project, go to http://www.humuliza.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=69.
Does anyone have successes or challenges they would like to
share about using pictures to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS? In your
opinion or experience, will using pictures of real people reinforce
negative
stereotypes or increase stigma?
Rana Hjeltnes, New Tactics Intern
Rana Hjeltnes, New Tactics Intern