The UN Aids Communication Framework for HIV and Aids published in 1999 states that communications approaches to HIV and AIDS prevention and care need to be re-evaluated.
‘Communication is central to prevention strategies aimed at influencing individual and social behaviour. Since there are so many variations in the contexts that determine behaviour, it is evident that communication approaches to HIV/AIDS prevention and care need to be re-evaluated.

Link http;//data.unaids.org/Publications/IRC-pub/JC355-CommFramew_en.pdf

At the International AIDS conference in Toronto 2006 community level activists frequently complained that their work is stymied by rigid conditionalities, lack of funds and limited access to information particularly in regional languages.

Link http://www.panos.org.uk/files/toronto06_panos5.pdf


The Qualitive Research Methods complied by Family Health International, Sept 2005 states:-

‘ The success of a health intervention, that is- that it actually reaches the people it is intended to help- rests on how well it addresses socio-behavioural factors such as culture norms; ethnic identities, gender norms, stigma and socio-economic status’

“ THERE IS A TREMENDOUS YEARNING, NOT FOR TECHNOLOGY PER SE, BUT FOR WHAT TECHNOLOGY CAN MAKE POSSIBLE” MR KOFI ANNAN, TUNIS 15TH NOVEMBER 2005
 

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