The Train-the-Trainer Module

2. The Train-the-Trainer Module Developed by the J2J Program & Bob Meyers of NPF

3. J2J Participation at IAS2011 & Train the Trainer SessionsSupported by unrestricted grants from … Gilead SAIC NPF Programs Fund

4. What’s Ahead • Methods of adult learning • General background • What you might do

5. Concepts of Adult Learning

6. Learner Directed • Adults are Learner Directed If they understand why they need the information you have, they are more likely to retain it. • McCain DV, Creating Training Courses (When You're Not a Trainer). Alexandria, VA: ASTD Press, 1999.

7. Apply Learner-Direction Make sure learners know they will get: • Story ideas; • Tips for selling them to editors

8. Experiential • Adults are Experiential They learn more by doing. They want to be actively involved in their learning. • McCain DV, Creating Training Courses (When You're Not a Trainer). Alexandria, VA: ASTD Press, 1999.

9. Apply Experiential Learning Role-play: An interview with someone HIV+; Selling a story to an editor.

10. More Than One Teaching Method • Curriculum should incorporate numerousinstructional methods. Some adults learn best from lectures. Others value words and pictures. • McCain DV, Creating Training Courses (When You're Not a Trainer). Alexandria, VA: ASTD Press, 1999.

11. Le Journaliste E. Boucicaut, au cours d’une présentation à Port-de-Paix, Haiti, Août 2007

12. Video from Howard Hughes Medical Institute How HIV infects a cell

13. Based on Prior Knowledge • Adult learners often bring years of experience to the table. Build on what they know. • McCain DV, Creating Training Courses (When You're Not a Trainer). Alexandria, VA: ASTD Press, 1999.

14. Apply Prior Knowledge Ask how learners have: Gotten information from government; Conducted a tough interview; Made numbers more interesting; Protected privacy of a source; Reported on an AIDS topic; Your idea here.

15. What Will You Talk About? Idea No. 1: • Simple overview of HIV/AIDS, using Bob’s Refresher Course (included on this drive), and/or other slides.

16. What Will you Talk About? Idea No. 2: • Any topic from the conference that’s relevant to your community. • Use conference notes and printed matter; • Use relevant websites; • Bring in appropriate local speaker .

17. What Will you Talk About? Idea No. 3: • Vulnerable people in your community -- Women -- Children -- Medical workers -- Men in risky relationships

18. What Will You Talk About? Idea No. 4: • Vulnerable groups in your community -- Local communities; -- National defense; -- Migrant workers; -- Agriculture; -- Education.

19. What Will You Talk About? • Idea No. 5: • Prevention -- Condoms – male or female -- Microbicides -- Limited sexual partners -- Clean needles -- Preventing mother/child transmission -- Male circumcision, for adults

20. What Will You Talk About? Idea No. 6: • Transmission -- Unprotected sexual contact - IV drug use - Unsafe clinical environment - Mother-to-child transmission

21. What Will You Talk About? Idea No. 7 • Obstacles in covering HIV/AIDS -- Ignorance of the facts -- Lack of interest from editors or viewers -- Fear -- Stigma & discrimination -- Lack of time -- Lack of official or editorial support -- Denialists -- Anything else?

22. What Will You Talk About? Idea No. 8 • AIDS and … • Tuberculosis • Treatment as prevention • Cure

23. Bob’s 4 Tips

24. TIP #1

25. Use Charts and Graphs

26. BUSINESSHIV slows economic growth Growth Impact of HIV (1990-97) (80 developing countries) 0 -0.2 -0.4 -0.6 -0.8 Reduction in growth rate GDP per capita (%, per year) -1 -1.2 -1.4 -1.6 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 HIV Prevalence Rate (%) Source: R. Bonnel (2000) Economic Analysis ofHIV/AIDS, ADF2000 Background paper, World Bank. Slide adapted from UNAIDS: “Socio-Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS in Africa,” presented by Anita Alban and Lorna Guiness, ADF 2000.

27. TIP #2

28. Prepare some local statistics ahead of time • www.unaids.org • www.globalhealthfacts.org • www.iasociety.org

29. TIP # 3

30. Use Powerful Photos • In Germany, a nail for every death in a year.

31. Use Powerful Photos In China, this man’s son is dying of AIDS.

32. TIP #4

33. Language Should Not Stigmatize For Example: -- “Person with HIV/AIDS,” not “AIDS victim or AIDS sufferer” • Sex worker, not prostitute • “contracted HIV…” not “was infected with HIV…” A separate list of appropriate language appears elsewhere on this drive.

34. Discussion/Story Ideas • How do people who are HIV+ feel about the word “victim”? • Should sex workers be regulated? • Do we identify someone who is HIV+? • Can we follow an HIV+ person as he/she attempts to get medicine?

35. Discussion/Story Ideas • Why are men reluctant to use condoms? • What can we tell readers/viewers about a female condom? • How do we report on MSM? • How do we deal with denialists? • Do we have an ethical obligation to cover HIV/AIDS?

36. Discussion/Story Ideas • What research into HIV/AIDS is being done here in … • What about a story about the stress on health professionals, like nurses, as they deal with people who are HIV+ and there is no money. • NCDs • How do families talk about HIV/AIDS? • To prevent it • If someone is living with it

37. Good Luck!