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"The SALT visit brought the GLIA team together like no management consultant could do" Staff members of the Great Lakes Initiative on AIDS (GLIA) did a SALT visit in an association of former sex workers in Kigali, during their annual retreat. "I was expecting that the sex workers would be full of self-pity and ask for handouts. Imagine my surprise when they offered to help us at the GLIA!" |
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AKDN Knowledge Fair held in Bamako, Mali
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Communities in Butembo assess their own need for information
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SALT is cool
Novi, Programme Officer at the AIDS Commission in Pontianak, Indonesia |
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Asian Red Cross/ Red Crescent Regional HIV/AIDS network (ART) is interested in the AIDS Competence Process A Constellation team -Claire Campbell (a coach from Australia) together with Red Cross participants from the ADB-NGO Competence process from Cambodia and Indonesia- facilitated a one-day workshop at a meeting of the ART network. The network wants to integrate the AIDS Competence approach into their way-of-working. |
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Going to scale with the launch of a blended learning programme
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AIDS Community India captures results of the AIDS Competence Process An action group within the Solution Exchange AIDS Community decided to capture results from the AIDS Competence Process in India. They selected two programmes, namely that of Samraksha in North Karnataka and Salvation Army's Community Health Action Network in Aizawl, as sites for the visit. Read Solution Exchange, Action Group for local community response to HIV (pdf file) |
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BelCompetence organises a workshop in Brussels On February 29 and March 1, the Belgian facilitation team organises a workshop in Brussels. "We need to reinforce our team to make sure that the AIDS/Life Competence spreads in Belgium," explains Aicha, one of the facilitators of BelCompetence. |
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The AKDN-Mali Knowledge Fair took place in Bamako on 6 and 7 February 2008. The workshop was a continuation of the AIDS Competence Process that EMBALMALI, EDM-SA and CAM have been following during the last 2 years with the support of the Constellation for AIDS Competence. In addition to representatives from the 3 companies guests were invited from a wide variety of other organisations. The Constellation provided 3 facilitatorand there were 28 participants at the workshop. 
32 facilitators met in Butembo (DR-Congo) for the second workshop organised by the Constellation and HealthNetTPO, to learn how to use the self-assessment for AIDS Competence. "Now the communities assess their own aids competence and decide what they want to know about aids," explains Nzotsi Paluku, working for HNTPO. 
"During a SALT visit a group of transgender taught me how to respect friendship and family and these are values which I have forgotten in my family life".
The Constellation and the Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine will launch a blended learning programme, thanks to the support of the Norwegian government. This course combines online modules and practical field exercises. On February 14-15, both organisations met in Brussels to launch the course