Orphans and Vulnerable Children - CRIN

Preventing HIV Infection

In this activity, you will:

 Describe the measures that can be used to prevent HIV infection

Facilitator’s notes:

For this activity you will need:

 Copies of Handout 4

 Flipchart and markers

To facilitate this activity:

1 Brainstorm with the group ways that they think they can

prevent becoming infected with HIV. Write their ideas

up on flipchart paper.

Discuss participants’ answers together with the group

and correct any wrong or inaccurate answers.

2 Based on the list on your facilitator’s notes above, you

may want to expand on the points further in a discussion

with the group. For example, the point ‘Be faithful to your

partner’ implies that both partners are HIV negative and

that neither partner is having sex outside the partnership.

If one partner is not faithful, it could put both partners

at risk of becoming infected with HIV.

3 Distribute Handout 4 to participants. Carefully review

each item on the handout to ensure understanding.

Activity 3

The most common strategies for preventing HIV transmission and

infection are:

• Abstain from sex


• Be faithful to your partner


• Use condoms (practise safe sex)


• Avoid sharing sharp instruments such as razors or needles (where you
  may come into contact with infected blood)


• Prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (join a PMTCT programme).

30 minutes

(^102) Unit 2, Module 1 Guide to Mobilising and Strengthening Community-Led Care for Orphans and Vulnerable Children