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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
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).