Publication type:
Training / Education Manual
Agency:
AIDS Resource Centre Okanagan & Region (ARC)
Summary:
A training manual about Hepatitis C for people giving preventive education presentations. The manual includes: steps for getting started; a barriers to care section that explores the influence of values and attitudes on learning; info about injection drug use; a detailed presentation about Hepatitis C including: history, facts and figures, definitions, the liver, info about the progression of the disease, symptoms, transmission, prevention, testing, treatments, co-infections and support for people living with HCV; a definition and strategies for harm reduction; info about safe sex, safer sex, and unsafe sex; condom facts and how to use condoms correctly; a glossary of terms.
Keywords:
AIDS service organization (ASO); harm reduction; HIV/AIDS