HIV/AIDS Introductory Workshop

HIV/AIDS, me and my world

This workshop

The workshop below is a reworked version of the first session of a larger HIV/AIDS educator training programme. It can be adapted and used on its own or used as the introduction to a longer learning programme, such as the HIVAIDS programme offered on WE by Otago Polytechnic.

Aim

This workshop session is aimed at personalising HIV/AIDS while placing related issues and impacts in a broader context. (If you are using this session as an introduction to a larger HIV/AIDS education process, you can include aims such as introducing the learners to the programme facilitators and to the programme as a whole.)

Outcomes

By the end of this session learners will have: Met and begun to develop relationships with their fellow learners and the facilitator/s. (Explored the purpose and structure of the longer course). Discussed the 'life as a classroom' concept and identified the need to be alert to learning opportunities about HIV/AIDS in all contexts. Explored HIV/AIDS as a disease infecting and affecting individual humans within a broader context. Explored what it means to be human and have needs. Related a personal experience of and explored how they feel about HIV/AIDS. Begun to identify how HIV/AIDS impacts on what it means to be human and on human needs. Explored what they hope to gain by learning more about HIV/AIDS.

Materials

In order to run this session effectively you will need:

• Newsprint sheets
• Felt-tip pens
• Crayons
• Prestick or masking tape
• A4 sheets of blank paper

Time required

This session should take approximately 6 hours including teas and lunch times.