Topic Area: HIV and AIDS

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Community Conversation Toolkit for HIV Prevention – Facilitator’s Guide

Source: FHI 360

Year of Publication:

2010

Materials in this toolkit include a facilitator’s guide, community mobilizer’s cards, roleplay cards, storytelling finger puppets, promotional proverbs and best kept secrets throw boxes, promotional playing cards, and dialogue buttons. These formats are designed to mobilize adults aged 20 and above in communities to take action toward HIV prevention.

The toolkit is intended to complement existing HIV prevention activities and address several key drivers: concurrency, cross-generational sex, gender-based violence, and alcohol abuse. Each material in the toolkit was tested with community mobilizers and men and women ages 20 and above in community. Sixty-nine focus group discussions and 34 in-depth interviews were conducted with men and women and with trained community facilitators who lead discussions using the materials. The toolkit has also been adapted in Lesotho, Nigeria, and Swaziland and is available in 10 languages.

The Facilitator’s Guide describes each item in the toolkit and how to use it.

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Club Risky Business TV Series Concept Note

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs, Media 365

Year of Publication:

2009

This is concept note about Club Risky Business, a multimedia campaign in Zambia focusing on concurrent sexual partnerships. The concept note was prepared by a media company helping with the production of the show.

The note describes a 26 episode series focusing on promoting positive health-seeking behavior among the general population. The proposed series package will include 45-minute episodes with the initial season being 26 episodes and subsequent seasons being 13 episodes each. Packaged with the series are Public Service Announcements (PSA) on various health issues. Each episode or series of episodes will highlight a health concern like malaria and focus on the behavior change objective required to prevent that particular health problem. The series is targeted at the general public (young people, men and women, policy makers, professionals and opinion leaders). The intention of this series is to make the audience aware of various issues surrounding health and wellness by showing how an individual, family and the community are impacted by various and specific health issues and the contributing and/or surrounding dynamics that affect them.

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Club Risky Business Creative Brief

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Year of Publication:

2009

A strategy document for Club Risky Business, a multimedia campaign in Zambia focusing on concurrent sexual partnerships. The objective of the campaign is to serve as a “wake-up call” or “epiphany” for target groups.

The communication objectives were:

  1. Increase personal risk perception for acquiring HIV through better understanding of “window period” (viremicity) and sexual networks (role of concurrency)
  2. Increase understanding of protective behaviors (primarily partner reduction but also condom use)
  3. Increase sense of responsibility to not infect others

This video describes the development of the project.

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Club Risky Business – Behind the Scenes

Source: Johns Hopkins University

Year of Publication:

2009

This is a behind the scenes documentary of the making of Club Risky Business, the centerpiece of the OneLove Kwasila! Campaign in Zambia (2009)

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Club Risky Business

Source: JSI

Year of Publication:

2010

This is a USAID case study about Club Risky Business, a 10-episode fictional mini-series launched in 2009 on Zambian television. The series examined multiple and concurrent sexual partnerships (MCP) through the engaging stories of three male friends and their partners in the age of HIV.

The case study explains the formative research, the program objectives, design, monitoring and evaluation, and lists what worked well and what the challenges were. It also lists ideas for future programming and recommendations.

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BA Zambia Implementation Package: Ni Zii!: A Toolkit for Implementors

Source: Breakthrough ACTION/Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Year of Publication:

2020

This package is part of a set of implementation packages designed by the Breakthrough ACTION Zambia team.

The Ni Zii! package is designed to address the following behavioral challenges:

  • Men who engage in risky behaviors do not get tested regularly for HIV
  • Adolescents who engage in risky behaviors do not get tested regularly for HIV
  • Men want to avoid HIV but do not use condoms every time they have sex
  • Adolescents want to avoid HIV and unintended pregnancy but do not use condoms every time they have sex
  • Adolescents want to avoid unintended pregnancy but do not use modern contraceptive methods
  • Providers do not offer HIV testing, condom provision, or family planning in a private, confidential setting
  • Providers do not offer quality, youth-responsive family planning services to all adolescents

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BA Zambia Implementation Package: Adolescent Wellness Days: A Toolkit for Implementors

Source: Breakthrough ACTION/Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Year of Publication:

2020

This package is part of a set of implementation packages designed by the Breakthrough ACTION Zambia team.

Ishibeni Utuntu, or Adolescent Wellness Days, is an integrated package designed to address the following problems:

  • Adolescents want to avoid HIV and unintended pregnancy but do not use condoms
  • Adolescents want to avoid unintended pregnancy but do not use modern contraceptives
  • Adolescents who engage in risky sex do not get screened and tested regularly for HIV
  • Adolescents want to prevent malaria but do not sleep under insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) every night

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ARV Posters, Zambia

Source: Breakthrough ACTION/Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Year of Publication:

2020

These posters, part of the Breakthrough ACTION project in Zambia, show healthy, strong men who have been on ARV medications for years, performing hard work, and looking well. They are part of the “Know Your Status. Get Tested. Get Treated!” campaign.

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Are You a Player or Are You Getting Played? Club Risky Business

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Year of Publication:

2009

This is a poster advertising the series Club Risky Business, a 10-episode fictional mini-series broadcast on Zambian television. The series examined multiple and concurrent sexual partnerships (MCP) through the engaging stories of three male friends and their partners in the age of HIV.

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Men’s Health Kit

Source: Health Communication Partnership Project under the leadership of JHU CCP. Funder by USAID and supported by the Zambian Ministry of Health

Year of Publication: 2009

The Men’s Health Kit was designed in Zambia as a facility-based teaching aid that can be used by health providers when counseling men about health. Initially designed around counseling for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision, the initial focus groups with men expanded its scope to ‘everything men wanted to know about SRH but were afraid to (or did not know where or who to) ask.

This kit was so popular that copies of it were stolen from the printing warehouse where it was stored before distribution. The facility-based providers who were given mock-ups to pretest in their health centers for a week, came back with great feedback but refused to return their mock ups because they were afraid they would not get another copy later.

This is a rare tool developed for counseling men and has already been requested by other countries for adaptation. 

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