On the Road Guide to Teaching Mining Workers and Truck Drivers About HIV/AIDS

This guide was produced to help reduce the spread of HIV among high-risk groups in Tanzania by providing HIV and other health information in small, dynamic, and informal settings from trained facilitators. This guide is particularly intended to be used by people who are away from home for long periods of time, such as people working in the mining industry or long-distance truck drivers. According to the publishers, small group sessions can be used to share information on HIV risk with people who are considered to be at high-risk, such as commercial sex workers, bar workers, truck drivers, food vendors, and others, in the hope that if they have the right information on HIV, they will be able to make informed health choices and avoid contracting HIV or infecting others.

The series of activities in this document can be used to coordinate, facilitate, and evaluate the sessions. The guide advises facilitators that it is important for the facilitator to familiarise themselves with the full guide before undertaking any of the small group sessions. The small group discussions will be held in areas where at risk groups identified are found, such as bars, recreation centers, truck stops, guest houses, community halls, dormitories, and other places where members of the mining industry gather when they are not working in the mines, or places where truck drivers gather when they are not driving. The guide is divided into four sections:

• Introduction and Facilitator Instructions
• Programme Sessions (dealing with testing, condoms, alcohol abuse etc.)
• Facilitator Evaluation
• Informational Handouts for participants

This manual was developed for the Tanzania Marketing and Communications for AIDS, Reproductive Health, Child Survival and Infectious Diseases (T-MARC) project, a six-year (2004-2010) United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded project, led by the Academy for Educational Development.

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