1. ESTABLISHING MULTI-SECTORAL LINKAGES TO COMBAT HIV/AIDS
USAID
REDSO/ESA

2. How to Start
Assess the impact of HIV/AIDS on your sector and consider what can be done:
Describe who is infected or vulnerable in your setting
Analyze NRM-related determinants of infection
Identify potential obstacles/constraints
Identify opportunities for intervention

3. A Virtuous Circle Treatment and care HIV Prevention
Pre-empts need for treatment
Treatment and care
HIV Prevention
Reduces risk, strengthens communities
Makes communities less vulnerable
Pre-empts need for future mitigation
Makes communities less susceptible
Strengthens systems for delivery of care
Pre-empts need for future mitigation
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4. Kinds of Interventions
Prevention: Workplace programs, Voluntary counseling and testing, condom distribution, peer education programs
Care and Support: Positive living support groups, medical care in the workplace, flexible working conditions
Mitigation of Impact: community-based self-help projects such as orphan support and micro-enterprise, new conservation techniques

5. Link with Resources in your Country
Link with country NACC or NACP
Learn about the national strategy, including what other groups and NGOs are doing
Discuss how NRM groups might fit into the national approach
Identify what technical and material resources might be available

6. Link with Resources in your Country
Link with other NGOs and CBOs working in HIV/AIDS
Talk with donors and the private sector, to identify what kinds of programs they’re supporting and how NRM groups might link up with those programs
Network in country and regionally, to share lessons learned and technical resources

7. Learn More Visit websites for information, tools and resources
(toolkits)