16th International Aids Conference

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• 16th International Aids Conference
• Toronto, Canada
• Alliance 2015
• Act Now or Pay later
• Towards a Virus free Generation by 2015
• ActNow in partnership with DWHH/German Agro
  Action

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• ActNow

Community Outreach Programme Makindu, Kenya
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Target Groups

• Youth

• Rural unemployed
• women

• Commercial Sex
• Workers

• Men in gainful
• employment

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Activities

• Intensive trainings

• Open forums

• One day workshops

• Public rallies

• Provision of VCT
• STI Services

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Lesson Learned

• Long term community
• engagement yields
• greater awareness,
• understanding and
• stimulates
• cross -generational
• communication

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Strategies

• Employing an all inclusive team

• Advocacy/stakeholder sensitization

• Integration of public health
  concerns into HIV/Aids curriculum

• Coordinating activities with interventions
  carried by partners

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Partnerships/ Alliances work
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