Côte d'Ivoire promotes positive prevention
30 March 2007
Alliance Nationale Contre le SIDA en Côte d’Ivoire has been shaping national strategy at a workshop regarded as an important milestone in the development of the country’s approach to positive prevention.
The Alliance linking organisation organised the training of trainers’ workshop in February so that participants could go on to develop and implement a positive prevention programme in their own organisations.
Participants were trained in techniques to promote preventative behaviours to reduce the risk of re-infection of people living with HIV and to improve relationships between carers and people living with HIV.
The workshop included 20 participants from the Ivorian network of people living with HIV (RIP+), organisations engaged in the national response to HIV, and health workers in the area of care and support for people living with HIV.
In an example of South–South collaboration between Alliance members, technical support was provided by Dieudonné Bassonon from the Alliance linking organisation in Burkina Faso, l’Initiative Privée et Communautaire de lutte contre le SIDA (IPC).
The workshop was both participatory and interactive. It made use of brainstorming, focus group discussions, practical exercises, presentations followed by question-and-answer sessions, work in small groups and plenary feedback sessions. Participants were also able to share their experiences of prevention and care and support strategies, the concept of positive prevention, and the issues and challenges they face.
