Raising Awareness and Building Capacity
Our HIV programmes raise awareness and build the capacity of communities to respond to HIV.
Our community education and social marketing programmes need to:
- maximise communities' understanding of the consequences of HIV infection
- inform communities about how HIV is and is not transmitted
- increase capacity for risk reduction and risk elimination techniques, including how to access and use prevention commodities
- improve knowledge about and access to VCT, treatment, care and support services
- improve community knowledge about the forms, causes and effects of HIV-related stigma and discrimination
- encourage and support community leadership and community-led initiatives, and
- provide communities with opportunities to participate in addressing HIV.