Training Guide for HIV Counseling and Testing for Youth: A Manual for Providers

This training guide, a companion to HIV Counseling and Testing for Youth: A Manual for Providers, produced in 2005 by Family Health International (FHI), trains providers on how to use that resource. This guide is intended to be used to train experienced HIV counsellors how to offer counselling and testing to youth and how to integrate HIV counselling and testing and other sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. It contains varies interactive sessions including those focused on interviewing, role-play, case study and discussion, referral mapping, and creating working groups for building community support. This training is not intended as basic counsellor training and does not provide information on how to administer an HIV test.

The intention is that, by the end of the workshop described session-by-session in the guide, participants will be able to:

• Use HIV Counseling and Testing for Youth: A Manual for Providers as both a guide to services and programmes and as a reference tool
• Describe and understand the concept of integrated services for HIV counselling and testing and other SRH needs and plan how to implement integrated counselling and services within their organisations
  
• Identify and implement the key elements of HIV counselling and testing for youth:

           Pre-test counselling and risk assessment
           Post-test counselling for both negative and positive results and risk reduction

• Explain the importance of quality referrals in providing HIV counselling and testing to youth and identify the referral systems in place and the gaps in existing referral systems in their communities
  
• Demonstrate improved youth-focused counselling skills, drawing on resources in the manual
  
• Understand how to gain community support for integrated youth services and how to develop promotional and social marketing campaigns for those services
  

 

Contents include:

• Introduction
  
• Agenda
  
• Day 1 Session 1. Opening
  
• Session 2. Integrated services for youth
  
• Session 3. HIV counselling and testing for youth
  
• Session 4. Closing Day 2
  
• Session 5. Review and provider practice session
  
• Session 6. Prevention of sexually transmitted infections
  
• Session 7. Pregnancy prevention
  
• Session 8. Sexuality and youth sexual and reproductive health
  
• Session 9. Provider practice session
  
• Session 10. Closing Day 3
  
• Session 11. Referrals
  
• Session 12. Integrated services
  
• Session 13. Building community support
  
• Session 14. Promoting integrated services to youth
  
• Session 15. Evaluation and conclusion
  
• Handouts, Appendices, Training Supplement