HIV Prevention Approaches Addressing Concurrent Sexual Partnerships - An Inventory

This resource pack, published by the Royal Tropical Institute's Development Policy and Practice Department, is an inventory of campaigns and interventions which are designed to address concurrent sexual partnerships (CSP) in Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, Namibia, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda. The resource is meant for anyone working on HIV prevention and or around sexual health and interested in addressing concurrent sexual partnerships more effectively.
The pack aims to provide:

• an overview of existing HIV prevention approaches and matching materials around CSPs, and where these materials can be found;
• reflections on how work on HIV prevention in relation to CSPs could possibly be enhanced; and
• inspiration to develop and implement activities at the community level that enhance people's skills to reduce their risk to HIV infection.

The first chapter provides an introduction and background information to this study. Chapter 2 provides a description of the campaigns and interventions identified and, where available, with the matching evaluation findings. Chapter 3 provides an overview of challenges and gaps identified in the current approaches, and some suggestions on how HIV prevention around CSPs could be further enhanced. Chapter 4 contains an overview of the matching campaign TV and radio spots, leaflets, brochures and interactive training materials, and where these can be accessed.
This initiative was triggered by students from sub-Saharan Africa following the HIV track of the Public Health Master’s degree at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), an international course with participants from all continents. Some of the African students expressed a strong need for information on interventions and campaigns to more effectively prevent the spread of HIV in relation to these CSPs in their home countries.