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  • Title: AIDS and behaviour change in Zambia.
    Author: Goodrich R.
    Journal: AIDS Anal Afr; 1999 Jan; 9(4):5-6. PubMed ID: 12294475.
    Abstract:
    AIDS-related deaths and funerals have become routine, everyday events in Zambia, with many families having lost half or more of their members. In this context, many organizations in the country are fighting HIV/AIDS, working to encourage people to adopt HIV/AIDS and STD risk reduction behaviors. Six Zambian AIDS organizations convened for a 2.5-day workshop in Lusaka in September to exchange ideas and discuss their work with young people. Participants discussed health education with youths, community home-based care, and the peer education and life-skills training approach pioneered by the Copperbelt Health Education Project (CHEP). Although adolescents are highly vulnerable, two organizations have found them open to sympathetic health education and willing to become peer educators. However, once in the field, peer educators must remain integrated within the community and their target audiences. Youth-friendly, confidential reproductive health services integrated into community clinics are urgently needed. Nursing staff must avoid being aggressive, insensitive, and judgmental. CHEP will make life skills a priority over the next 2 years, and plans to train at least 150 people, including all of its own staff. It was also noted at the workshop that young people are not passive recipients of health messages, but active service providers and shapers of policy.
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