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Archival Content: 1999-2005
Background > What is HIV Prevention Outreach?
Outreach Best Practices
- Going to where drug users are, not waiting for them to come to you
- Gaining the trust of IDUs
- Accessing a wide range of IDU social networks
- Involving peers and workers who know the community and its issues
- Offering education that’s:
- clear and direct
- based on actual injecting and sexual practices
- Going beyond education alone to offer:
- help
- referrals to care and treatment
- Giving outreach workers and peer educators:
- adequate supervision
- burnout/relapse prevention
- payment/support/assistance
- initial training
- structured ongoing learning opportunities
- Giving outreach managers:
- high level of training
- flexibility
- ability to manage wide range of people
- ability to handle crises and changing circumstances
Source: Adapted from Dave Burrows, AIDS Projects Management Group, Sydney, Australia
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