1. TRAINING SESSION

2.  Introduction  Sylvain  Michael  Cassandre  Participants (name, place, organization)  How are you ?  Logistics  Hotel (extra nights, check out)  Any question

3. 9:00Breakfast 9:30Introduction 10:3015 minutes break 10:45Successful workshop 12:00Lunch 13:00Confidentiality, GIPA 14:30 15 minutes break 14:45Ground rules, parkink lot, homework 16:15End of day

4. Advisory committee / Comité consultatif Kamilla Petrosyan, MD, MPH & Jessica Dolan, AIDS Community Care Montreal / Sida Bénévoles Montréal Ginette Tremblay, BRAS Outaouais Sophie Wertheimer, CATIE Ken Monteith, COCQ-SIDA Gary Lacasse, Maison Plein Cœur Llewellyn Goddard, Toronto People With AIDS Foundation

6. The My Life With HIV program is a series of six workshops of three (3) hours each, addressing newly diagnosed HIV positive people who are treatment-naïve and considering starting antiretroviral treatment A person with HIV who has never taken HIV medication. The program aims to improve HIV positive people’s understanding of the daily and long-term effects of treatment, and to provide them with practical tools to improve their overall health.

10. Physical space Materials Facilitator training Body Language Listening Getting the discussion started Keeping the discussion on track Encouraging non-participators Reinforcing Management of interactions between participants

12.  How to Introduce Confidentiality to a Group  Engage participation  A word on the GIPA principle

13.  Before the workshop begins  Specify the learning objectives of the workshop  The “educational contract”—Agreeing on the Objectives  During the Workshop  Group Dynamics  Closing the Workshop  Summarize and Reconnect with Objectives  evaluation  Enhancing the Impact of the Workshop through Follow up

14. Greater Involvement of People living with HIV/AIDS Meaningful Involvement of People living with HIV/AIDS One Foot Forward: A GIPA Training Toolkit http://www.cdnaids.ca/onefootforwardagipat rainingtoolkit The Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV (GIPA) http://data.unaids.org/pub/BriefingNote/200 7/JC1299_Policy_Brief_GIPA.pdf

16. Setting the rules  For the success of the proceedings, it is important to set and respect basic rules in a group in order to assure a fun, pleasant atmosphere.  In keeping with the GIPA/MIPA spirit, the elaboration of the ground rules should be done with all participants. Ground rules can be revisited before each session.  Some examples of basic ground rules are:  Raise your hand if you want to speak and respect others when they are speaking.  Do not cut anyone off and please respect the order of speech. Speak for yourself only (by using “I” statements).  Remember that you have all signed a confidentiality agreement.

17.  The Parking Lot is a simple facilitation tool: you just need a poster and some sticky notes. But it enables you to send strong messages to participants of a workshop: 1. “I’ve heard you” 2. “We won’t forget” 3. “We will talk about it for sure”  At the end of the workshop or when the training day ends, take 10 to 15 minutes to review the items put in the Parking Lot with the team.  You should seek to identify:  - Items that must be addressed now (AND so we do NOW)  - Items that need to be addressed but not right now (so they remain in the Parking Lot)  - Items that no longer need to be addressed, that have been covered (so we remove it…)

18.  Using homeworks or not  One more tool to increase knowledge acquisition  A way to keep in touch between session  Giving an moment to reflect  Evaluation tool during the workshop

21.  9:00Breakfast  9:30Ice Breaking exercise  10:3015 minutes break  10:45The co-facilitation  12:00Lunch  13:00Workshop 1 to 5  14:30 15 minutes break  14:45Conclusion  15:15End of day

22.  Choosing the most appropriate  Encourage participation  Try to have fun  Let’s try one

24.  The co-facilitation  A team work  Managing lack or too much participation  Or how to say shut up politely or please speak your mind  Dealing with wild variety of personalities  I like you....not !

26. Introduction Welcome Presentation of the program, confidentiality form, Icebreaker exercise, evaluation questionnaire Workshop 1 Let’s talk! Setting ground rules, HIV 101, CD4/viral load, transmission, risk evaluation, Can we talk? Relations with your health provider team Workshop 2 Going further! HIV 201, HIV life cycle, antiretroviral medications, short and long term side effects

27. Workshop 3 Are you ready? When and why to start treatment, readiness to start/Do I have choices? Women and HIV treatment Workshop 4 Why is adherence so important? Adherence and resistance, drug interactions Workshop 5 What now? Self-care/wellbeing, strategic coping, disclosure

28.  Integration of the program My Life with HIV into your organization  Improvement, adjustment, modification  Reflect your local reality  Keep open the communication

29.  Participative evaluation  Many thanks for your participation  Have a safe way home  Thanks

30. My Life with HIV program is funded by: 2075 Plessis, Montréal Québec, H2L 2Y4 Tel: 514-527-0928 Fax: 514-527-0701 Email: treatment@accmontreal.org