HIV Prevention Knowledge Base
Behavioral Interventions: Peer Outreach and Education
Peer Education and Support in HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care, and Treatment: A Comprehensive Training Course for Expert Clients in the Kingdom of Swaziland
This comprehensive training course is designed to train expert clients working in clinic- and hospital-based maternal-to-child transmission programs and treatment sites in Swaziland. This training consists of 16 training units that are conducted over 6.5 days. The course prioritizes the care and treatment of pregnant women in addition to providing services and outreach to their family members. The project incorporates people living with HIV as active implementers in prevention, care, and treatment programs. It can be adapted for use in training other types of lay counselors and peer educators.
Tuko Pamoja (We Are Together): A Guide for Peer Educators
This on-line manual was developed as part of the Kenya Adolescent Reproductive Health Project (KARHP) Tuko Pamoja ("We are together") series. It can be used by peer educators facilitating discussion groups with in- and out-of-school youth. The manuals gives guidance on facilitating group discussions and addresses topics such as physical and emotional changes during adolescence, staying healthy, planning for the future, making good decisions, and preventing pregnancy and HIV. It is divided into 26 chapters with a reference section and can be downloaded in its entirety or each chapter can be downloaded individually.
Assessing the Quality of Youth Peer Education Programmes
This 45-page aid to assessing youth POE programs is based on eight checklists, which were developed and validated in a two-phase research study on the productivity, sustainability, and effectiveness of youth POE programs. The first phase involved development of the checklists; the second phase involved testing and validation of the checklists. The research was conducted in Zambia and the Dominican Republic.
The eight checklist topics are: stakeholder involvement; parental involvement; youth involvement; youth-adult partnerships; peer educator cooperation; gender equity and equality; community involvement; and technical frameworks.
Female Condom and Dual Protection: Training for Community-Based Distributors and Peer Educators
This 87-page report discusses methods of dual protection (prevention of pregnancy as well as prevention of sexually transmitted infections and HIV). Graphic depictions of male and female anatomy and explicit guidelines for the use of both female and male condoms are provided.
Peer-to-Peer: HIV & AIDS Peer Educators Trainers’ Guide for IMPACT Implementing Agencies
This 128-page guide is a Nigerian adaptation of various training guides for peer educators that was developed to help peer educators develop useful skills for POE programs for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. The Peer-to-Peer guide is intended for trainers who will train peer educators.
Peer Education Kit for Uniformed Services
As young people comprise the majority of those newly infected with HIV, there is a critical need to find effective ways to lower risk-taking behaviors that can lead to sexually transmitted infections and HIV among the uniformed services populations (i.e. military, peacekeepers, police). This 266-page kit provides a comprehensive review of topics, including an introduction to peer education; training peer educators; monitoring and evaluation; basic information on HIV and AIDS; risk assessment; condom use; sexually transmitted infections; alcohol and drug use; gender, coercion and sexual violence; voluntary counseling and testing, stigma and discrimination; mother-to-child transmission; and professional conduct. Four sets of picture cards are included as discussion aids.
Peer Education: Module 1
This 20-page module is part of a larger manual, Life Skills Training Guide for Young People: HIV/AIDS and Substance Use Prevention. Module 1 describes methods for designing, developing, and implementing POE groups and could be used to address any issue, from HIV prevention, and/or substance abuse, to pregnancy prevention.
Guide to Implementing TAP (Teens for AIDS Prevention)
This 197-page comprehensive guidebook to planning, developing, and implementing a youth POE program provides practical advice on every aspect of running a POE project. The authors cover topics such as selecting and training youth educators and responding to common objections and misperceptions about youth HIV POE. The manual includes a list of reliable sources of information, 15 references, and a variety of forms that can be copied for use, including consent forms, survey questionnaires, a project-planning form, and volunteer contract.
YouthNet, Youth Peer Education Toolkit
This series of tools includes “The Training of Trainers Manual”; “Standards for Peer Education Programmes”; “Theatre-Based Techniques for Youth Peer Education: A Training Manual”; “Performance Improvement: A Resource for Youth Peer Education Managers”; and “Assessing the Quality of Peer Education Programmes.”
How to Create an Effective Peer Education Project
This 33-page pamphlet is aimed at those who are planning a new peer education project, and/or who want to strengthen or energize ongoing projects. The information is based on interviews with more than 200 subproject managers, peer educators and peer beneficiaries in ten countries and provides guidance on appropriate activities for peer educators; recruiting and selecting peer educators; community acceptance and support for peer educators; training topics for peer educators; supervising and supporting peer educators; and the role of educational materials and condoms in peer education projects.