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AIDS Interventions with Churches - Kenya

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This project, in association with AIDSCAP Kenya was initiated to increase the number and capacity of Kenyan churches initiating and managing effective, culturally appropriate and locally sustainable AIDS intervention projects integrated into the church community. The church was considered an appropriate media as the church enters every community in Kenya, crossing ethnic, gender, age, economic and social boundaries. The project aimed to decrease high risk sexual activity through these grassroots oriented, church integrated AIDS interventions.
Communication Strategies

An integrated media campaign reached people at the international, national and local levels. National press and television spots and articles, a video that aired on prime time television, international radio broadcast, workshops, travelling cinema vans reached rural communities, curriculum modules for teachers and pastors, awareness packets for educators and parents printed in many languages.

Development Issues

HIV/AIDS, youth, rural development, social attitudes and behaviours, grassroots communication.

Key Points

Extensive baseline research was undertaken among church leaders and youth to determine attitudes towards HIV/AIDS, to examine barriers to behavioral change, to reveal key attitudes in regard to high risk behaviour and practice and to identify areas of need and opportunity. The research results guided the development of church-based awareness and intervention programmes as well as the development of tools used in the project.

Partners

AIDS Control and Prevention Project (AIDSCAP), International Medical Assistance Program, Kenyan Christian AIDS Network (an initiative facilitated by the programme), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), local organisations and media outlets.

Sources

Family Health International AIDS Control and Prevention Project - Final Report for the AIDSCAP Program in Kenya. September 1992 to December 1997 pages 137-142. A project funded by USAID. Click here for the online version.