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• It is essential that teachers are trustworthy and supportive of the youth. Where feasible, election of counselling teachers through youth should be considered. Female teachers can play an important role as counsellors for girls. • Women groups do not have the same institutional links compared to the youth peer educators and a main concern regards their level of sustainability. Health posts and family planning volunteers may be used as more sustainable resource persons to provide information on HIV. However, they contribute less to reducing barriers and stigma on issues related to HIV. Where women groups or any other community groups exist in the frame of other programmes they may be used to integrate the issue of HIV - provided they bear a certain level of sustainability. • Women alone have limited capacity to inform and involve the men, they feel that barriers will persist as long as men are not directly targeted. Both male and female want the other to know about their concerns. They therefore welcome a joint training. Involving men/boys is also important to gain their support and raise awareness on HIV prevention. CAPITALIZATION STUDY HIV/AIDS Prevention and Reproductive Health Project NRCS/SDC 2000-2007 27
Annex I Newspaper extracts Advising husband to use condom by telephone Women from Tatarkot village in Parbat district can now talk freely about HIV/AIDS and reproductive health issues even as they are most backward socially, economically and academically. They said they are on a campaign to educate other community members what they have learned: those infected with HIV need care and support, women should keep their sex organs clean and stay away from unsafe sex. “We did not know why it was important to keep our sex organs and clothes clean during the menstruation cycle,” said Dhana Kumari Bishwakarma, President of Tatarkot Women’s Group. “We should practise safe sex, which is possible through using condoms and family planning methods. We used to feel shy and hide our face when somebody talked about these but now we ourselves talk freely and frankly about sexual and reproductive health issues.” The change, according to her, came after Nepal Red Cross 28 CAPITALIZATION STUDY HIV/AIDS Prevention and Reproductive Health Project NRCS/SDC 2000-2007
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