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VCT toolkit : HIV voluntary counselling and testing. A reference guide for counsellors and trainers

SANGIWA, Gloria
et al
January 2004

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This reference guide was developed for trainers, counselors in training, and working counselors, to highlight the links between VCT and HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and support. It provides teaching methodologies, including demonstrations, role-playing, supervised practice, desensitization, and negotiating skills. It also contains worksheets and checklists for practical sessions, and texts for demonstrations and exercises to be conducted during the training courses. Chapters focus on counselling strategies, physical and psychological care, counselling for specific groups, grief and bereavement, counsellor stress and burnout, monitoring and quality assurance, and ethics. The guide outlines key activities related to training in (and provision of) VCT services

Evaluating programs for HIV/AIDS prevention and care in developing countries : a handbook for program managers and decision makers

REHLE, Thomas
et al
2002

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This handbook contains a comprehensive discussion of evaluation approaches and methodologies for HIV prevention and care programmes. Its premise is that evaluation is an integral part of any programme from initial planning onward. Section I discusses concepts and approaches to evaluation and suggests an evaluation strategy design. Section II describes operational approaches for evaluating programmes concerned with promotion of behavioural change, infection control, condom use, voluntary counselling and testing, and people living with HIV or AIDS (PLWHA). Section III focuses on methodologies for measuring behavioural trends while section IV addresses evaluation issues of programme impact assessment and cost-effectiveness analysis. This publication is designed for use by programme managers and decision makers

Care for orphans, children affected by HIV/AIDS and other vulnerable children : a strategic framework

FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL (FHI)
2001

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Family Health International's strategic framework for setting priorities and taking the necessary steps to develop responsive care and support programmes for orphans, children affected by AIDS and other vulnerable children. Describes projects in three countries responding to the needs of vulnerable children. Designed to assist national and local planners, implementers and donors in setting priorities

Capacity Building

CALDERON, M Ricardo
Ed
December 1997

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This publication presents a theoretcial and practical means for the evaluation of organizational and institutional development in HIV/AIDS prevention and control programs in developing countries. It is based on experiences of measuring capacity building in more than 20 countries and 200 projects. It provides an instructive paradigm for the design and evaluation of HIV/AIDS prevention interventions worldwide

Making prevention work : global lessons learned from the AIDS control and prevention (AIDSCAP) project 1991-1997

AIDS CONTROL AND PREVENTION PROJECT (AIDSCAP)
1997

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Documents the experience of one of the world’s largest international HIV/AIDS prevention projects, which was implemented by FHI and its partners in 45 countries. It describes lessons learned during AIDSCAP, with examples and project profiles, in ten technical and programmatic areas: behaviour change communication, improving prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, prevention marketing, policy development, behavioral research, evaluation, gender and HIV/AIDS, management, AIDS care and support, and cross-border interventions

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