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Starting the discussion: steps to making sex safer
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Starting the Discussion: Steps to Making Sex Safer

This guide for community-based workers was produced in 1996. It provides ideas for training activities that can be used for enabling people to participate more actively in discussion about HIV prevention and making sex safer.

Acknowledgements
Understanding people's behaviour
Communicating for change
Working with groups
Assessing change
Teaching tools
Check your facts
Resource list

Contents

Acknowledgements

Part 1 Understanding People's Behaviour

Information is not enough

Making change possible

Talking about sex and relationships

Activities

Listening survey

Focus group discussion

Part 2 Communicating for Change

Working towards better communication

Your role in information sharing

Tips for trainers

Part 3 Working with Groups

Activities

Building on Knowledge

1 Finding the gaps

2 Check your beliefs

3 Talking about sex

Thinking about Risk

4 Risks and results

5 Most risk/least risk

6 Taking the risk and passing it on

Exploring Attitudes and Feelings

7 Agree/disagree

8 Thinking about sex differences

9 Talking about making sex safer

10 Digging deeper

Practising New Skills

11 Learning about condoms

12 Using role play

Problem-Solving and Decision-Making

13 Change takes time

14 Using picture codes

15 Open-ended story

16 Barriers to change

17 Using drama

Part 4 Assessing Change

Why evaluation is important

Stages in evaluation

Collecting information

Activities

Community mapping

Structured group discussion

Using checklists

Using questionnaires

Part 5 Teaching Tools

Part 6 Check your Facts

What is HIV?

How does HIV affect the body?

What is AIDS?

What is the HIV test?

How do you get infected with HIV?

How is HIV transmitted?

What is unsafe or high risk behaviour?

What is safer sex?

What is an STD or an STI?

How do you use a condom?

Resource List

First edition funded by the States of Jersey
Reprint funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)

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