Honduras
Using Entertainment Education (EE) to provide HIV/AIDS prevention
Activity Dates
2004-2007
Activity Summary
As a result of the success of the first mass media campaign, in 2004 HCP implemented a new campaign directed at vulnerable groups with high HIV/AIDS prevalence: Garifuna, men who have sex with men (MSM), commercial sex workers, and people living with HIV/AIDS. This campaign used the EE approach, specifically community theatre and radio to promote HIV prevention messages.
Implementation Process
The establishment of the IEC Sub Committees with two vulnerable groups, Garifuna and MSM, has considerably empowered them to take leadership in designing their first IEC strategy to prevent HIV/AIDS. For the first time, both groups presented their IEC strategy at the eighth STI/HIV/AIDS Congress held in Tegucigalpa in March of 2004. The groups implemented their strategies using an entertainment education approach, through theatre skits that reflect the reality of the group members with HIV/ AIDS prevention messages.
Taking advantage of artistic talents of volunteers that belong to several NGOs working with vulnerable groups, volunteers were trained in message development and dramatic arts to produce skits with preventive health messages. A series of EE presentations took place in different groups' venues such as "Gay Talent Nights," Weekend Fairs and Special Meetings culminating on the National Celebration of AIDS Day in early December as the cornerstone of their activities to prevent HIV/AIDS. After the presentations, the groups encouraged audience participation to discuss the health prevention messages.
Evaluation/Findings
Evaluation results conducted among Garifuna youth and the MSM population exposed to the EE drama showed a significant increase in knowledge of HIV/AIDS preventive behaviors, intention to engage in discussions about HIV/AIDS and the intention to seek VCT services. The impact was also evident among the volunteer theatre group members and actors; it empowered then to talk about HIV and HIV/AIDS prevention with their peers and to make informed choices about their own behavior. It also provided the volunteers with opportunities to be part of the fight against HIV in their community.
Garifuna Activities
- 12 Theatre workshops, multiple rehearsals
- 120 active volunteers involved in theatre groups
- 15 local performances
- 15 debates alter the performance
- 10 theatre pieces, one radio drama, 20 episodes
- More than 2,000 adolescents, youth and adults exposed to HIV/AIDS theatre presentations with prevention messages.
- Production: 10 Theatre pieces and one 20-episode radio drama
Audiences
- 15- to 24-year-old Garifuna youth and adolescents from 10 communities from the Cortes, Colon and Atlantida Regions of Honduras.
- Men who have sex with men from Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula y La Ceiba.
Partners
Enlace de Mujeres Negras, Fundación de Mujeres Garifunas en Marcha; ODECO La Ceiba, Centro Independiente para el Desarrollo de Honduras, ECOSALUD, Organización Fraternal Negra de Honduras MSM, COGAYLESH, Colectivo Vilota; Kukulkan, Arco Iris, CEPRRES/San Pedro Sula, Comunidad Gay Sanpedrana; OPROUCE La Ceiba
Activities
- 9 Theatre workshops and several rehearsal meetings
- 50 active volunteers involved in theatre groups
- 7 local theatre presentations
- 7 debates after theatre presentation
- More than 400 men who have sex with men exposed to theatre pieces with HIV/AIDS preventions messages
- Production: 4 theatre pieces
Materials/Tools
Research Reports/Publications
- Evaluation of participatory community theater for increasing HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes and behavioral intention among vulnerable groups in Honduras. Alisha H. Creel, Department of Health, Behavior and Society. Johns Hopkins University & Ana Claudia Franca-Koh, PhD HCP Senior Program and Evaluation Officer
- REPORTE TÉCNICO Obras de Teatro para prevención del VIH en Jóvenes 15 a 24 anos de la población Garifuna en Honduras
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