Office of Overseas Programming & Training Support (OPATS)

HIV Prevention for Key Populations

HIV Prevention

Session Objectives

Participants describe four appropriate and two inappropriate activities for PCVs targeting key populations

Participants use action planning to identify opportunities to conduct HIV prevention activities targeting key population communities

Key Populations in Country x

Review key populations status in country (MSM, PWID, SW, SW clients, TG)

Legal status National prevention priorities Any available HIV and health statistics Homophobia/stigma Include HIV prevalence estimates

Comprehensive Programming for Key Populations Behavioral programming – targets individual

behavioral and social change, community-based outreach that moves beyond info

Biomedical – HTC, STI diagnosis and treatment, condoms & lube, linkages to ART, TB & Hep C, VMMC, substance use treatment

Structural – create community, combat stigma, build advocacy capacity, combat violence

Human Rights and HIV

Human right to– Privacy– Confidentiality– Autonomy – Non-discrimination

Empowerment and accountability Legal protection (and enforcement)

Harm Reduction and HIV Prevention1

A set of practical strategies that reduce negative consequences of drug use and other high-risk behaviors

Incorporates strategies that range from safer use to managed use to abstinence

Meets and accepts individuals on their own terms

1Taken from Harm Reduction Coalition Principles of Harm Reduction website. http://harmreduction.org/about-us/principles-of-harm-reduction/ Accessed January 6, 2013.

PCV Activities Targeting Key Populations Educate on the link between high-risk behavior and HIV

transmission Promote KP-targeted HIV prevention services Support formation and functioning of support, peer outreach

groups Train key populations in advocacy so they can assert their rights,

organize for legal/policy reform, and communicate their HIV prevention needs

Conduct in-service training to HCW to promote harm reduction approaches and “-friendly” appropriate service provision

Ensure access to prevention commodities (male and female condoms and water-based lube,

Help groups network with uniformed services to increase safety, reduce extortion