Document 1867
 DOCN  M94A1867
 TI    Integration and not intervention: prospects for HIV prevention through
       rural women.
 DT    9412
 AU    Varma S; Gandhi Nagar, Jaipur, India.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):433 (abstract no. PD0340). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370708
 AB    INTRODUCTION: Rajasthan is a poor, feudalistic, desert province in
       Western India where frequent famines have led to a huge migrant male
       population. Tribal prostitution is a tradition. Women's status is poor
       owing to low literacy (20%), child and early teenage marriages, high
       population growth rate (28%), declining sex ratio (913) and general
       social and economic deprivation. INSTRUMENT: Women's Development
       Programme (WDP) is an NGO-provincial Government collaboration that uses
       the government infrastructure to facilitate grassroots dissemination of
       information among rural women by NGOs to tackle social and economic
       issues. I have been one of the architects of the Women's Development
       Prog. in Rajasthan. INTERVENTION: The WDP is now being used for HIV
       education through a core team of trained workers who address rural women
       interpersonally. PROCESS: The training process of the WDP trainers is
       participatory and is based on experimental learning. It has developed
       training and IEC material in the local language. CONCLUSION: The
       programme has received positive response and overall economic and social
       empowerment of the target women is the objective. The information
       dissemination network has also positively influenced the attitudes of
       the state officials and men working in the programme. An illustrative
       description of the integration of HIV education in ongoing development
       programmes to minimise sexual harm among disenfranchised women will be
       presented in the paper.
 DE    Female  *Health Education  Human  HIV Infections/*PREVENTION & CONTROL
       *Rural Health  MEETING ABSTRACT

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