de Wildt GR, Frencken HR, van Rens LE, Buckers MJ, de Jongh-Wieth FE; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12; 10: 259 (abstract no. PC0404).
GGD-City Health Department, The Hague, Netherlands.
OBJECTIVE: To respond to the need for low-cost health promotion tools, especially for youth, which raise lasting awareness about individual risk-behaviour, the interaction between partners, negotiating safe sex and the spread of HIV. METHOD: A 1 hour role play was developed in Botswana, the Netherlands and Lesotho amongst over 20 groups such as secondary school students and teachers. Participants received individual role cards (e.g: careless hunter, boy who insists on safe sex) and a glass of water and set out to meet different partners. One glass, symbolising the seropositive starter, contains invisible starch. An encounter with safe sex is symbolised by toasting glasses; unsafe sex by exchanging water. At the end of the play iodine is added to each glass: starch containing water becomes visible, symbolising testing seropositive. The issues are discussed such as persuasion, resistance, negotiating and power relations (e.g. between boys and girls). RESULTS: Evaluations highlight that the exercise is easy and cheap to perform and was found non-threatening but direct by participants. It facilitates discussion and the creation of awareness on individual risk-behaviour, on power relations and on the ability to negotiate safe sex. CONCLUSION: This interactive role play, when used with other activities, is a powerful low-cost health promotion tool which can be used at a large scale in both developed and developing countries.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Botswana
- Demography
- Developing Countries
- Female
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- Interpersonal Relations
- Lesotho
- Male
- Netherlands
- Risk-Taking
- Safe Sex
- Unsafe Sex
Other ID:
UI: 102210525
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