Document Title: Project proposal- HIV information dissemination

Paper code: 13050

Project proposal- HIV information dissemination 

Detailed description of proposed project

In Uganda and especially at the university level Parents, guardians and the community in general do not speak/ communicate with their children/ youth concerning skill based HIV/AIDS, which leaves the youth vulnerable to STD/HIV infection. Seen that situation as a gap, the government and other stakeholders initiated various HIV prevention campaigns focusing on educating youth about HIV. These efforts included Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MOEVT) designing HIV/AIDS related materials that were not packed in a youth friendly way and have not been applied in students extra – curricular activities.

With all those efforts new HIV cases among university who lie in the group of youth between 13-24 keeps on increasing, this is due to the fact that the type of knowledge delivered is neither comprehensive nor skill based. Leaving a gap of more than 60.2% of young women and 58.5% % young men lacking skilled based comprehensive HIV/AIDS knowledge with 50% of young women and 43%of men having first sexual intercourse before reaching 18 years of age, which leads to high level of unplanned pregnancies ranging from 3% among young women 15 years of age to 54% among women aged 19 years.

World health Organization (WHO) has devised a scale to rate different types of behaviour change communication (BCC) interventions (The Ready, steady, Go! Scale rates). The Go! Scale rate means that, the intervention approach has extensively been proven; it’s workable, can be adopted and scaled up.

In this project Kyambogo university in collaboration with its stakeholders will apply The GO scale rate to implement the project since this intervention includes dissemination of skilled based HIV/AIDS education through a combination of multiple channels such as radio, print and performed art (interactive: drama, public speaking, coral, solo verse and others) reinforcing the same messages. Such sessions enable the audience to go through the process of understanding problem and reach consensus on the solution. And this is where interventions appear.