Behind the Pandemic in Aboriginal Communities - Interagency ...

Table 1: Potential Audiences and AdaptationsAudience Purpose Potential Issues Adaptation StrategiesAboriginal peoples inschool and communitysettingsService providersUniversity and collegestudentsFoster critical awarenessof and socialaction on the broaderissues causing HIVvulnerabilityService providersBuild awareness andcultural humility forworking with Aboriginalpeoples• Local norms• Unresolved trauma• Literacy and numeracyissues.• Limited understandingof HIV• Limited understandingofAboriginal peoples,cultures and experiences.• Course hours maybe inflexible andtoo short.• Co-facilitate with a localAboriginal organization.• Invite a local Elder tohelp run the workshop.• Ask a local Elder to providesupport to participants,if needed.• Have a referral list forcommunity supportservices.• Facilitator or participantscan volunteer to read thecards aloud.• Use the visuals to helpexplain concepts.• Hold an HIV 101 workshopin advance withyour local AIDS ServiceOrganizations or publichealth nurse.• Hold one or moreworkshops in advanceon Aboriginal peoples,cultures, and historicaland present day experiences.• Split the workshop intotwo pieces. Deliver Stage2 in one class period andStage 3 the next class.Who Developed this Educational Resource and How?This educational resource is a joint project of the Interagency Coalition on AIDS andDevelopment (ICAD) based in Ottawa and the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN)based in Vancouver.It is an adaptation of Behind the Pandemic: Uncovering the Links between Social Inequityand HIV/AIDS educational resource, co-published by ICAD, AIDS Vancouver and USCCanada in 2004. The original Behind the Pandemic aims to engage Canadians in understandingand responding to the dynamics and social inequities underlying the global HIVpandemic. Behind the Pandemic has been well-received by organizations and participants:It has been used by AIDS Service Organizations, international development NGOs,faith-based organizations, unions, and on university and high school campuses, acrossCanada and around the world.14