TOT on HIV/AIDS

Location: DCSE Guest House, Deshpande fellows of Social Entrepreneurship
Activity: Training of the Trainers

Leader: Mr.Lakshmish.S, Followers: Mr.Ajay and Mr.Shambuling

Objectives:
1. To conduct activities focusing on HIV awareness, and making the fellows knowledge on HIV.
2. To focus more and more areas for HIV awareness.

Process: Facilitating the group fellows to take up activities related to HIV. Since few already worked in the field of HIV, and conducted some activities relating to HIV, the activity was chosen to be Training of Trainers. The session started showing a telefilm focused on HIV. The film is produced by BSF, India and contains modes of transmission of HIV by constructing a small story around it.

After concluding the film, brainstorming session was done to clear their understanding. Few had some misconceptions like HIV may spread through mosquito bite. All these were clarified and by saying ‘risk’ is the main consideration for HIV testing, conducted a group activity for better understanding.

Distributed a chit containing some activities and those were distributed to all the group members and they were asked to categorize the act as high risk, low risk or no risk. After categorizing the person should give explanation why they feel so and justify their answer. The other group members could challenge the person and it went on very well. It was a thought provoking activity for the group; it gave rise to clarification in depth. The participation was so good that the session was carried for more than 2 hours.