AIDS & Mobility Master Toolkit
This Master Toolkit is the collection of Core Training materials and relevant additional information from the fields of HIV prevention and migrant health that the project partners consider essential sources for anyone interested in learning about or implementing a transcultural HIV and AIDS mediator project.
The A&M project 2008-2011 served as a pilot project to test whether the transcultural mediator model could be successfully implemented in a range of different sites and with diverse key populations. Partners decided at the beginning of the project that documenting the model and its materials would be a main result and output.
One of the most important insights from piloting the model in the six European sites was that success is closely related to how well the model could be adapted to local circumstances. Some of the materials in this toolkit have already been through a process of development and adaptation. The results are consensus versions that contain the core project method and structure as a solid basis for further local adaptation. We suggest you use them as a starting point and consider the insights and learning experiences of the A&M project partners documented in this toolkit as well as your own operating environment and experience when you adapt them for your own use.
We have produced this Master Toolkit in order to disseminate the transcultural mediator model for HIV prevention with migrants and mobile populations as far and wide as possible. As A&M project partners we believe that it is a useful and effective approach that should be considered as a component of every comprehensive HIV prevention program that includes migrants, mobile populations or ethnic, cultural, religious or language minorities as key populations.
We encourage you to explore and use this toolkit in your HIV prevention efforts and to inform others in your network about it.
What is in the Master Toolkit
This toolkit contain four main packages of materials:
A&M Background Materials
The A&M background materials give an overview of HIV and AIDS and migration. They include case studies, country reports, research and policy documents. They can be especially useful if you want to become more familiar with the topic and with the history of the efforts that governments, NGOs and the A&M network have already made.
A&M Core Training Materials
The core training materials are practical tools that you can use to train transcultural mediators, reach your key populations, and for evaluating your project. They include a training curriculum, slide kits, the AIDS & Mobility Guidebook and evaluation forms. Most are available in a range of languages, representing the cultural groups who participated in the pilot project.
A&M Promotional Materials
The set of promotional materials to show how project partners recruited candidates for mediator training and participants for community information sessions.
Supplementary Materials
The last package of materials included in this toolkit contains a selection of models and materials that use similar principles and methods or have similar goals to the transcultural mediator model. We included them to show that different approaches can lead to success and that it is useful to consider existing options and the experiences of others before creating your own version of HIV prevention activities with migrant and mobile populations.
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