Evaluating an HIV and AIDS community training partnership program in five diamond mining communities in South Africa*
SOURCE: Evaluation and Program Planning
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2010
TITLE AUTHOR(S): L.C.Rispel, K.Peltzer, N.Nkomo, B.Molomo
KEYWORDS: COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION, HIV/AIDS, MINING AND MINERALS INDUSTRY, SOUL CITY
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 6261
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/4344
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/4344
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2010
TITLE AUTHOR(S): L.C.Rispel, K.Peltzer, N.Nkomo, B.Molomo
KEYWORDS: COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION, HIV/AIDS, MINING AND MINERALS INDUSTRY, SOUL CITY
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 6261
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/4344
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/4344
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Abstract
In 2006, De Beers Consolidated Diamond Mines in South Africa entered into a partnership, with the Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communications to implement an HIV and AIDS Community Training Partnership Program (CTPP), initially in five diamond mining areas in three provinces of South Africa. The aim of CTPP was to improve HIV knowledge and to contribute to positive behavior changes in the targeted populations. This paper describes the evaluation of the CTPP, one year after implementation. The evaluation combined qualitative interviews with key informants and trainers and a post-intervention survey of 142 community members. The successes of the CTPP included capacity building of trainers through an innovative training approach and HIV and AIDS knowledge transfer to community trainers and targeted communities in remote mining towns. The Soul City edutainment brand is popular and emerged as a major reason for success. Challenges included insufficient attention paid to contextual factors, resource constraints and the lack of a monitoring and evaluation framework. Independent evaluations are useful to strengthen program implementation. In remote areas and resource constraint settings, partnerships between non-governmental organisations and corporations may be required for successful community HIV and AIDS initiatives.-
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