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HIV Prevention for Key Populations

HIV Prevention for Key Populations . HIV Prevention. Session Objectives. Participants describe four appropriate and two inappropriate activities for PCVs targeting key populations

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HIV Prevention for Key Populations

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  1. HIV Prevention for Key Populations HIV Prevention

  2. Session Objectives • Participants describe four appropriate and two inappropriate activities for PCVs targeting key populations • Participants use action planning to identify opportunities to conduct HIV prevention activities targeting key population communities

  3. Key Populations in Country x • Review key populations status in country (MSM, PWID, SW, SW clients, TG) • Legal status • National prevention priorities • Any available HIV and health statistics • Homophobia/stigma • Include HIV prevalence estimates

  4. Comprehensive Programming for Key Populations • Behavioral programming – targets individual behavioral and social change, community-based outreach that moves beyond info • Biomedical – HTC, STI diagnosis and treatment, condoms & lube, linkages to ART, TB & Hep C, VMMC, substance use treatment • Structural – create community, combat stigma, build advocacy capacity, combat violence

  5. Human Rights and HIV • Human right to • Privacy • Confidentiality • Autonomy • Non-discrimination • Empowerment and accountability • Legal protection (and enforcement)

  6. Harm Reduction and HIV Prevention1 • A set of practical strategies that reduce negative consequences of drug use and other high-risk behaviors • Incorporates strategies that range from safer use to managed use to abstinence • Meets and accepts individuals on their own terms 1Taken from Harm Reduction Coalition Principles of Harm Reduction website. http://harmreduction.org/about-us/principles-of-harm-reduction/ Accessed January 6, 2013.

  7. PCV Activities Targeting Key Populations • Educate on the link between high-risk behavior and HIV transmission • Promote KP-targeted HIV prevention services • Support formation and functioning of support, peer outreach groups • Train key populations in advocacy so they can assert their rights, organize for legal/policy reform, and communicate their HIV prevention needs • Conduct in-service training to HCW to promote harm reduction approaches and “-friendly” appropriate service provision • Ensure access to prevention commodities (male and female condoms and water-based lube, • Help groups network with uniformed services to increase safety, reduce extortion

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