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11.4ObjectivesTimeHealth Fairs on HIV and Gender1. To help community members or community groups plan a health fair on gender,HIV and male involvement.60 minutesMaterials • Flipchart paper and markers• Enough copies of Handout 19: Community Health Fairs for all participantsSteps1. Ask if any participants have ever set up a health fair to reach communities orgroups. Explain that a health fair is an event at which people can gather informationon various topics. Ask them to share that experience, including what worked and didnot work. (Five minutes)2. Ask participants to discuss the benefits and challenges of health fairs.Note the following benefits and challenges if they haven’t been mentionedafter five minutes:Benefits• Can reach large numbers of people• Can be very interactive• Can be low resource (depending on props used)• Can focus on many broad topicsChallenges• May need to provide refreshment, food, chairs, prizes, which can be costly• Need to be interactive and ““fun” to hold the attention of the audience3. Pass out Handout 19: Community Health Fairs to participants. Review the keypoints.4. Divide the participants into two groups and ask them to develop a health fair with$300 in resources (amount can change based on country context). Each group shouldfocus on one of the topics below.• Increase men’s use of VCT (Voluntary Counseling and Testing) andARV (Anti-Retroviral) treatment and support of PPTCT (Prevention ofParent to Child Transmission).• Increase knowledge about GBV (Gender-Based Violence) and HIV5. Once they have developed their ideas, ask them the following:? Who was the audience?? How was the health fair structured?? What resource people did they invite or use?? What other resources did they need?? How did they spend the funds they were given?? How did they ensure that the audience participated in the health fair andcontinued to stay interested?6. Debrief by asking the following questions:? What was difficult about designing the health fairs?? What did they enjoy about it?? Is this a tool they could see using in their programs? In what way? (Howwould it be helpful?)106