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
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Using soccer for HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention
There is a great initiative taking place in Africa that uses soccer as a means to raise awareness and prevent HIV/AIDS. Grassroot Soccer utilizes soccer and powerful role models to teach awareness about the disease, critical life skills, and prevention strategies to young people. Their HIV prevention curriculum includes:
- a 120-page Coaches Guide to train professional soccer players in Africa to speak to school children about HIV prevention
- Extra Time, a 36-page magazine and workbook used as a guide for peer educators. The workbook features pictures and quotes of professional athletes as well as activities related to HIV/AIDS prevention that young people will do at home or in class with their peers
- a 12-page Kick AIDS Guidebook, designed to train US college-aged Kick AIDS Ambassadors, who use what they learn to talk to US high school and junior high school Kick AIDS participants about the global HIV epidemic
I recommend checking out their website at http://www.grassrootsoccer.org!
Does anyone have any thoughts on using sports as a means to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS, or similar experiences they would like to share?
Rana Hjeltnes, New Tactics Intern