Learning to Live Positively: a key development tool for promoting "treatment preparedness" amongst HIV/AIDS- affected rural communities in Africa
Sam L. Page, Brice Gbaguidi, Fortunate Nyakanda · 2006
Community learning processes are crucial to increasing resilience to HIV/AIDS in Africa's remote rural areas: This paper describes our experiences of using the How to Live Positively discovery-learning process to empower rural communities in Benin, Malawi, Nigeria and Zimbabwe to reduce their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, improve household nutrition and clean up their environment to reduce opportunistic infections. This process also promotes treatment preparedness amongst resource-poor farmers and should, therefore, be implemented alongside national and international programmes to roll out anti-retroviral drugs across Africa.