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developing countrywide strategies. Training of various groups was completed, as described
above. Approximately 200 University of Swaziland students were also reached through class
discussions and condom demonstrations and distribution. A number of other activities were
undertaken during the course of the project, such as ongoing education on the topic of AIDS
prevention for the local print media, and working with local businesses and church groups to
train work-based peer educators. Several educational brochures were developed, tested and
distributed, many of which were adapted from existing materials from the region, including a
South Africa-originated comic book on AIDS. The project also produced the first video on
AIDS made in Swaziland.
The work of the project is currently being continued with funding from the Swaziland
USAID mission. Project staff are in the process of developing an independent NGO, The
AIDS Information and Support Center (TASC), that will take a major role in the
nongovernmental response to HIVIAIDS in Swaziland.
Save the Children/Cameroon
HetUlquarters in WestpOI1, Connecticut, and
programs in 38 countries
Overview
Save the Children/Cameroon, working out of the organization's country office in Marolla,
focused most of its HIVIAIDS prevention activities in several divisions of the Far North
Province where a child survival project was also in operation. A few additional activities
also took place early in the project in Ntui, an area near the city of Yaounde, but on the
advice of the midterm assessment team, the project focus was limited to the Far North.
Counterpart
The Save the Children (SC) staff collaborated with vari01llS other NGOs and the local
Ministry of Health in the Far North Province, although a relationship with one specific local
counterpart group was not developed.
Methods
The primary goal of SC's AIDS education program was the training of trainers (TOT) from
the community in the skills, facts and attitudes that would limit the spread of AIDS. Their
approach was based on the concept that people are more receptive to being educated by
someone·from their own community, especially when dealing with a sensitive social issue
like HIV. Once trained, the individuals then would serve as trainers for their target group
population.
The precise target groups to be trained were modified several times over the course of the
project. They initially included several categories of community members, but were
ultimately reduced to a focus on one primary target group, health personnel (including
military health workers).
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