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Understanding and challenging TB stigma : toolkit for action | Introduction to TB and stigma | More understanding and less fear about TB

KIDD, Ross
et al
March 2009

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"The module was written by and for trainers. It has been designed to help trainers plan and organise participatory educational sessions with community leaders or organised groups to raise awareness and promote practical action to challenge HIV and TB stigma and discrimination." It can be used as a stand alone resource or in conjunction with the modules on understanding and challenging HIV stigma

Sex work, violence and HIV : a guide for programmes with sex workers

GREENALL, Matthew
May 2008

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This guide is primarily for organisations implementing HIV and AIDS projects with sex workers and for organisations providing funding and technical support to these projects. It aims to help organisations understand and assess the importance of taking violence into account, and to help design and carry out activities to prevent and deal with violence against sex workers

Our future : Preparing to teach sexuality and life-skills|An awareness training manual for teachers and community workers

INTERNATIONAL HIV/AIDS ALLIANCE
January 2008

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The activities in the manual will strengthen teachers' understanding of sexuality, gender, sexual and reproductive health and HIV and AIDS as well as the self-awareness, values and skills that play an effective role in HIV prevention, care and mitigation in their schools and the community. This includes providing supportive, positive role-models, creating a safe environment, reducing stigma and discrimination and teaching sexuality and life skills effectively

The health journey : understanding the dimensions of care and treatment for people with HIV. A community-centred methodology

GREEN, Carolyn
August 2007

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The health journey is a tool that puts the a person with a health problem at the centre of the picture and maps their real-life experiences, highlighting what actually happens, as a starting point for community engagement and community-centred health service planning. This manual is divided into three sections, explaining what a health journey is and why it might be useful for understanding the experiences of people with HIV, how to set up and use the methodology and five examples of health journey workshops together with the impacts that resulted from them

Understanding and challenging HIV stigma : toolkit for action. Modules B & C : more understanding, less fear; sex, morality, shame and blame

KIDD, Ross
CLAY, Sue
CHIIYA, Chipo
June 2007

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This is the second booklet of this revised toolkit to raise awareness and promote practical action to challenge HIV stigma and discrimination. Module B focuses on more understanding less fear; and module C on sex, morality, shame and blame. The toolkit was written by and for HIV trainers in Africa and changes and additions were made with the help of a regional trainers network workshop in Zambia in August 2005

Understanding and challenging HIV stigma : toolkit for action. Modules D & E : the family and stigma; home-based care and stigma

KIDD, Ross
CLAY, Sue
CHIIYA, Chipo
June 2007

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This is the third booklet in this revised toolkit to raise awareness and promote practical action to challenge HIV stigma and discrimination. Module D focuses on the family and stigma and module E on home-based care and stigma. The toolkit was written by and for HIV trainers in Africa and changes and additions were made with the help of a regional trainers network workshop in Zambia in August 2005

Understanding and challenging HIV stigma : toolkit for action. Modules F & G : coping with stigma; treatment and stigma

KIDD, Ross
CLAY, Sue
CHIIYA, Chipo
June 2007

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This is the fourth booklet in this revised toolkit to raise awareness and promote practical action to challenge HIV stigma and discrimination. Module F focuses on coping with stigma and module G on treatment and stigma. The toolkit was written by and for HIV trainers in Africa and changes and additions were made with the help of a regional trainers network workshop in Zambia in August 2005

Understanding and challenging HIV stigma : toolkit for action. Module H : MSM and stigma

KIDD, Ross
CLAY, Sue
CHIIYA, Chipo
June 2007

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This is the fifth booklet in this revised toolkit to raise awareness and promote practical action to challenge HIV stigma and discrimination. Module H focuses on men who have sex with men (MSM) and stigma. The toolkit was written by and for HIV trainers in Africa and changes and additions were made with the help of a regional trainers network workshop in Zambia in August 2005

Understanding and challenging HIV stigma : toolkit for action. Module I : children and stigma

CLAY, Sue
CHIIYA, Chipo
CHONTA, Mutale
June 2007

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This is the sixth booklet in this revised toolkit to raise awareness and promote practical action to challenge HIV stigma and discrimination. This module focuses on children and stigma and contains separate exercises for children and for adults. It was developed out of the findings of a study on children’s experiences of stigma carried out in Zambia in 2002-03, and with input from children in Tanzania who shared their stories with the facilitators in 2007. The toolkit was written by and for HIV trainers in Africa and changes and additions were made with the help of participants in a regional trainers network workshop in Zambia in August 2005

Understanding and challenging HIV stigma : toolkit for action Module J : young people and stigma

CLAY, Sue
CHIIYA, Chipo
CHONTA, Mutale
June 2007

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This is the seventh booklet in this revised toolkit to raise awareness and promote practical action to challenge HIV stigma and discrimination. The module focuses on young people and stigma. Stigma towards young people is similar to that faced by adults, but it is often exacerbated because of vulnerability and judgements about age, morality, education and experience. The impact of stigma on young people has many consequences, including exclusion, isolation, dropping out of school, delaying starting ARV treatment, and suicide or thinking about suicide. The toolkit was written by and for HIV trainers in Africa and changes and additions were made with the help of a regional trainers network workshop in Zambia in August 2005

Understanding and challenging HIV stigma : toolkit for action. Moving to action module

KIDD, Ross
CLAY, Sue
CHIIYA, Chipo
June 2007

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This is the eighth booklet in this revised toolkit to raise awareness and promote practical action to challenge HIV stigma and discrimination. This module builds on what has been explored about stigma in the earlier modules with an aim of helping participants to develop a specific plan of action for challenging stigma in their community, and make a public commitment to work individually and collectively to identify, understand and challenge stigma. The toolkit was written by and for HIV trainers in Africa and changes and additions were made with the help of a regional trainers network workshop in Zambia in August 2005

Understanding and challenging of HIV stigma : toolkit. Picture booklet

KIDD, Ross
Clay, Sue
CHIIYA, Chipo
June 2007

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This is the ninth booklet in this revised toolkit to raise awareness and promote practical action to challenge HIV stigma and discrimination. It contains general stigma pictures and rights pictures that are intended to be photocopied by the facilitator and used alongside the exercises in the rest of the toolkit. The toolkit was written by and for HIV trainers in Africa and changes and additions were made with the help of a regional trainers network workshop in Zambia in August 2005

Understanding and challenging HIV stigma : toolkit for action. Introducation and module A : naming the problem

KIDD, Ross
CLAY, Sue
CHIIYA, Chipo
2007

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This toolkit was written for and by HIV trainers in Africa. It has been designed to help trainers plan and organise educational sessions with community leaders or organised groups to raise awareness and promote practical action to challenge HIV stigma and discrimination. Building on the original toolkit, it includes experience of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance’s Regional Stigma Training Project, which has introduced the toolkit to many countries in Africa through a training of trainers and networking process. At a regional workshop in Zambia in August 2005, members of this network helped to review the toolkit and make changes and additions

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