This guide helps Ministries of Health, policy makers, programme managers, trainers, and nongovernmental organisations to plan, implement, monitor, and evaluate HIV and STI prevention programmes in maternal health services.The purpose of this guide is to address programming gaps in the prevention of HIV and other STIs in maternal health services; and to increase the capacity of maternal health providers and community based providers through training and facilitative supervision to provide pregnant and post-partum women with HIV and STI prevention services and referrals. It looks at programme planning; the different types of prevention programmes that are possible (eg information and communciation programmes and counselling programmes); and the different types of training that can be considered for staff involved in delivering maternal health services
This training pack has been developed using participatory training approaches, which means that the exercises require the active involovement of all participants. It has been developed for use by skilled and experienced trainers who are familiar with the content and objectives of each exercise. The guide consists of a detailed curriculum with session guides, and a series of appendices containing additional materials