Prevention & Community Education
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Prevention is at the very heart of primary care. AIHA’s primary healthcare, healthy communities, and women’s health partnerships work to empower individuals to take charge of their own health and wellbeing by arming them with the information they need to make smarter lifestyle choices. Prevention is a focus area for many HIV/AIDS Twinning Center partnerships, with some targeting young people, soldiers, or other vulnerable populations.
Whether at a community health fair, through a school-based health education program, or during a regular check-up or outreach visit, care providers are trained to encourage open dialogue with people about often taboo subjects like sex and substance abuse. By discussing things that put individuals at risk for contracting HIV, practitioners and counselors are helping stem its spread.
In Kenya, for example, an HIV/AIDS Twinning Center partnership between De Paul University in Chicago and the Kenya Episcopal Conference-Catholic Secretariat in Nairobi is implementing a culturally appropriate abstinence-based prevention program in Catholic schools throughout the Kenyan capital and its environs.
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