RESOURCE SHARING PROGRAM

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RESOURCE SHARING PROGRAM

• WEDNESDAY 8th JULY 2008
• TEMPLE DAVID

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Program today

• Presentation on resource documents on the CD
• 10.00 to 11.00 RESOURCES
• HIV 911 Catherine Jenkins
• Childrens Rights Centre Sharon Shevil
• KZN Network VAW Cookie Edwards
• US Consulate Thula Hlongane

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Program continued

• 11.00 TEA
• 11.15 FAITH BASED RESPONSES (FBOS)
• WCRP Paddy Meskin
• PACSA Gita Dickinson Charles
• HEARTLINES - For Good  
• Khaphuka Project Jacqueline Healy- Buddhis

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• 12.30 LUNCH
• 1.30 TREATMENT WELLBEING
• Diabetes Action Sue Frye
• MRC ( TB Unit) Paul Ngcobo
• MCords Hospital Dr Anne Moyes
• CONCLUSION

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HIV/AIDS Advocacy Media Relations Manual
Stigma Discrimination Handbook
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Because of stigma, those living with HIV are
more likely to fear disclosing their status or
being tested for HIV. As a result, they are at
more risk of transmitting the virus to
partners. Stigma reduction attempts to influence
the social response through communications
regarding prevention and care. Through a BCC
campaign or other prevention efforts, religious
communities should address stigma and provide
compassion and humane treatment for people living
with HIV and AIDS. This approach helps to create
an environment in which people are less fearful
of being tested and are more likelyto accept
their HIV status. It is very important to involve
people living with HIV openly in these
anti-stigma and BCC campaigns. To reduce stigma,
religious leaders need to understand HIV and
AIDS, and the fact that the disease is not a
consequence of a sin, in order for them to reduce
and eventually eliminate the stigma and
discrimination associated with the disease.
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STIGMA REDUCTION Stigma is a critical issue to
address when developing BCC campaigns and other
prevention activities. Stigma is defined as a
mark of shame or discredit on a person or group.
With regard to AIDS, stigma affects people
living with HIV and AIDS and other sectors of the
community touched by the epidemic. Stigma often
presumes a negative behavior on the part of those
affected and is manifested in different ways,
from ignoring the needs of a person or group to
psychologically or physically harming the
stigmatized. Because of stigma, those living
with HIV are more likely to fear disclosing their
status or being tested for HIV. As a result, they
are at more risk of transmitting the virus to
partners.
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Key Implementation Questions for Stigma
Reduction In what ways is stigma hindering
effective prevention and care interventions?
What role can BCC, VCT, and other prevention and
care interventions play in alleviating the impact
of stigma? What existing legal, political,
human rights, and policy contexts are related to
stigma? Are policies in place to enhance and
protect the rights of people living with HIV and
AIDS? Has high-profile disclosure occurred
within the country? Does the hospital and
health care setting play a role in perpetuating
stigma? What role do the religious leaders play
to reduce stigma, denial, and discrimination
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Advocacy manual

• HIV/AIDS Advocacy - Religions for Peace has a
  commitment to strengthen advocacy among religious
  communities regarding the AIDS pandemic. Due to
  stigma and discrimination, children are often
  deprived of basic social services and the support
  of their extended families. Such an enviroment
  can open the door for abuse, sexual exploitation,
  and other issues.
• Advocacy means championing a cause creating
  awareness and understanding about AIDS and
  working to ensure that relevant policies and
  programs are put in place. HIV/AIDS advocacy
  helps drive a more effective response globally,
  regionally and nationally.

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STIGMA DENIAL DISCRIMINATION Training and
Handbook
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SDD Training Handbook

• SDD Training and Handbook This training manual,
  used together with the participants handbook, is
  meant to strengthen the advocacy and media
  relations skills of religious leaders at both
  national and community levels in order to expand
  their advocacy efforts on behalf of children
  orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS, with
  the goal of bringing greater priority to their
  needs and expanding the response.
• A third volume in the set addresses the stigma,
  discrimination, and denial challenges that faith
  communities may help to overcome.

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WHAT RELIGIOUS LEADERS CAN DO ABOUT HIVAIDS
Action for Children and Young People

• HIV/AIDS is a crisis of enormous spiritual,
  social, economic and political proportions. And,
  increasingly, it is a problem of the young.
  Overcoming HIV/AIDS and the stigma that fuels its
  spread is one of the most serious challenges of
  our time. It requires courage, commitment and
  leadership at all levels, especially among
  religious leaders who can use the trust and
  authority they have in their communities to
  change the course of the pandemic.
• The idea for this publication grew out of the
  African Religious Leaders Assembly on Children
  and HIV/AIDS in June 2002, at which religious
  leaders called for tools and resources to use in
  responding to the crisis. UNICEF, the World
  Conference of Religions for Peace and the Joint
  United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) have
  collaborated to prepare this workbook, which
  draws from information sources of various faith
  communities. The workbook has been tested and
  reviewed by religious leaders in Africa and Asia
  as well as by others representing faith-based
  organizations and networks worldwide.

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WHAT RELIGIOUS LEADERS CAN DO

• HOW TO USE THIS WORKBOOK
• This book is a resource that religious leaders
  can use to explore ways of responding to
  HIV/AIDS. It explains what HIV/AIDS is, how it
  can be prevented and how it affects particular
  groups, especially children and young people.
• It also explains how parents who are infected
  with HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) can avoid
  passing it on to their infants.
• In addition to these basic facts, each chapter
  includes suggestions on what religious leaders
  can do to stop the spread of this deadly
• epidemic and the human suffering that goes along
  with it.

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Scaling Up for Effective Partnerships
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Responding to crisis - Co-sponsored by
Religions for Peace, a guide to the response of
five world religions to HIV and AIDS and
opportunities for collaboration with governments
and secular groups is now available. Scaling up
effective partnerships A guide to working with
faith-based organizations in the response to HIV
and AIDS provides background information and case
studies, dispels myths, and gives practical
guidance for United Nations staff, government
officials, positive people's networks,
non-governmental organizations, foundations, and
the private sector who want to collaborate with
faith-based organizations on joint projects
related to HIV and AIDS. "Religious communities
are uniquely equipped to help confront the stigma
of HIV/AIDS and provide invaluable training,
background, and support," said Mr. James Cairns,
Director of Programs at Religions for Peace.
"Religions for Peace is deeply committed to
helping religious leaders and communities work
together to address this disease and the many
ways it can devastate families. We are grateful
for this opportunity to work with like-minded
organizations to create this important and timely
guide."
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Building Partnerships for Life

• The role of religions in caring for children
  affected by HIV/AIDS.

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HIV AIDS ADVOCACY MEDIA RELATIONS Handbook for
Religious Leaders.

• Religion plays a central, integrating role in
  social and cultural life. Through personal
  contact, the spoken, broadcast or printed word,
  and through religious symbols, ceremonies and
  traditions, the worlds religions reach out to
  virtually every community in the most remote
  corners of the earth.
• Allison Foose Mye za,
• AIDS Brief for Professionals, Religious Leaders

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Set Advocacy Objective A clear objective makes
it easy to convince others of what you want to
do. The advocacy objective should state what
you want to change in terms of policy how the
change will be effected who will make the
change when the change will be made where
applicableby how much
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The need for the guide was highlighted in a
number of workshops and studies over the past two
years that identified lack of information and
misinformation among staff of multilateral
organizations, government agencies and embassies,
and development partners as major factors
inhibiting scaling up existing faith-based
projects and developing joint initiatives. The
guide reviews the relevant teachings and
structures of five of the major world religions
Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, and
Islam. Examples of current responses, potential
obstacles, terminology and case studies are
intended to give practical advice for initiating
or expanding collaboration at local and national
levels. The guide has been produced by Church
World Service, Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance,
Norwegian Church Aid, UNAIDS, and Religions for
Peace.
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Women of Faith Transforming Conflict A
Multi-Religious Training Manual This manual is
devoted to translating a critical subject into
practical training materials which have been
tested in the field by women of faith from West
Africa and Southeast Europe.
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Millenium Development Goals Toolkit for Religious
Leaders
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• Religions for Peace, with the support of the UN
  Millennium Campaign, has developed a toolkit to
  engage and equip religious leaders and their
  communities to become front-line actors in the
  fight against poverty and disease. The UN
  Millennium Declaration was signed by 189 nations.
  The declaration outlined eight Millennium
  Development Goals to be achieved by 2015,
  including
• eradicating extreme poverty
• achieving universal primary education
• promoting gender equality
• reducing child mortality and hunger
• combating HIV/AIDS and other diseases
• Faith communities are well placed to help achieve
  these goals. The MDG toolkits were developed,
  field tested, and launched with UN partners
  to assist religious communities in raising
  awareness, advocating, training, and conducting
  outreach to address poverty and disease.

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Religions for PeaceTRAINING GUIDE FOR RELIGIOUS
LEADERS

• FOREWORD 4
• The Purpose of this Guide 4
• Introduction for Trainers 5
• Facilitating Adult Learning Sessions 6
• The Role of the Trainer-Facilitator 7
• One-day Training for Religious Leaders 10
• Three-day Training of Trainers (TOT) Workshop 20
• More Resources on Training 31
• Acknowledgment 31

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MDG Training Guide

• This training guide is designed for two types of
  training workshops on the Millennium
• Development Goals (MDGs) that utilize Faith in
  Action Working Toward the Millennium Development
  Goals,
• An action toolkit for religious leaders and
  communities
• produced by Religions for Peace with support of
  the Millennium Campaign
• The Purpose of this Guide

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PURPOSE OF THIS MDG GUIDE

• 1. A one-day workshop on the MDGs for
• religious leaders.
• 2. A three-day Training of Trainers
• (TOT) workshop for trainers or facilitators
• who will develop and conduct training
• workshops for religious leaders.

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Excel document on the CD that has all the contact
information of all attending the Resource Sharing
Fair
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• On the CD is an Excel document of all Provincial
  key contacts for KZN

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• There is a Ward document that has all the places
  in Durban that you can go to for help .

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• There are three parts to the Gender Sexuality
  Toolkit

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Supporting community action on AIDS in developing
countries (Alliance)
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Aim of this toolkit This toolkit aims to support
community groups to work in a practical and
thorough way on improving understanding and
relationships between women and men. Through
this, it aims to promote sexual wellbeing,
strengthen communities and help them to prevent
HIV.
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FENICC JUSTICE RECONCILIATION
MANUAL "Encounters with local faith-based
leaders have enriched myappreciation of their
position. Faith-based leaders and communities
have an important role to play. --Mr. Bruno
Cathala, Registrar of the International Criminal
Court Religions for Peace hosted an experts
meeting, African Faith Based Communities
Advancing Justice and Reconciliation in Relation
to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This
manual is the tangible outcome to this
convening. The manual, which will also be
translated in French, explains the ICC mandate
and mission within the broader context of justice
and reconciliation to ensure that religious
practitioners decide to support the complementary
role of the ICC.  This also promotes
relationships among religious leaders,
faith-based organizations, and the ICC.  In this
way the ICC will help to deliver justice and hope
for the future.
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The Manual addresses these questions and also
contains two sets of workshop modules Justice
and reconciliation need their proper time and
place in African societies in transition.  How
does criminal justice, especially as delivered by
the ICC, fit into this? What is the mandate of
this new criminal world court and how does it
work? What role can religious leaders and
faith-based groups play to advance justice and
reconciliation, especially in relation to the
ICC? The manual was launched in Kampala, Uganda,
in April,  2006, hosted by the Inter-Religious
Council of Uganda (IRCU). In July, 2006,
Religions for Peace with the World Council of
Churches on behalf of FENICC, launched the manual
and conducted a training in Liberia with members
of the Inter-Religious Council of Liberia.
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Please find a presentation and survey done by
HSRC in 2008 on SA
National HIV prevalence Incidence,
Behaviour and Communication.
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Toolkit on TB and understanding the Challenges
of TB and Stigma
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THE JONAS BROTHERS We are constantly looking for
role models for our young people, especially in
relation to HIV AIDS. The Jonas Brotehrs are an
example of young people who are famous, modernm
fun , yet have the right values. Check out the
links given on the Jonas brothers and their
Chastity Pledge
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JONAS BROTHERS REVEAL PURITY PLEDGE
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The Jonas Brothers have revealed theyre all
virgins - and they plan to stay that way until
their married. The three brothers - twenty year
old Kevin, eighteen year old Joe and fifteen year
old Nick - told Details magazine that they all
wear purity rings to symbolise their pledge. Joe
explained the rings represent promises to
ourselves and to God that well stay pure till
marriage
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• Joes ring is silver and is adorned with a cross
  but its not in the best of shape It actually
  ripped apart a little bit, just on the bottom,
  here, but I didnt want to get a new one, because
  this one means so much to me.
• Kevin added that his is similarly damaged Its
  getting banged up a little bit because of the
  guitar. Its pretty rock and roll.
• But while Kevin bought his ring at Tiffany Co,
  Nick got his made at Disney World and he thinks
  its pretty awesome

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The Jonas Brothers
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ACCESS ENABLING DOCUMENTS!

• How to access the pilot coordinated outreach
  component of the ACCESS enabling documents
  campaign
• ACESS ENABLING DOCUMENTS CAMPAIGN Partners
  meeting 17TH FEBRUARY 2009

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CARING FOR CAREGIVERS!

• Caring for the caregivers in the face of HIV and
  TB.
• This document gives insight to the importance of
  caring for caregivers.
• They are the lifeblood of the Home based care
  campaigns.

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