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Positive:
Jamal
Negative:
Anisha
Transitional: Sasha
Sasha
Sasha is a 16 year-old African girl. She has long, braided hair, about 54 inches tall
and a slender built. She is married to Dominique. Dominique is 25 years old and
does not treat their marriage as monogamous; he sleeps with other women behind
her back. Sasha feels that she may be pregnant because her period did not come
for 2 months. Also recently, Sasha displayed symptoms of a particular illness,
symptoms that are possibly indicative of acute HIV infection. Her knowledge of HIV
is elementary; she knows that you can transmit the virus through unsafe sexual
contact but Sasha is unaware of the threat it has on her fetus.
Description
Young girl, aged 18
Situation
Since she was 16, Heathers mother kept pushing her to get married.
Formative Research
Main Goal: Reduce rates of HIV transmission in South Africa.
Process Objective: To encourage young women, particularly pregnant
women, to get tested for their sero-status and to follow with the necessary, medical
steps to manage good maternal and/or fetal health.
Define Target Audience: Young pregnant women living in South Africa.
Define Educational Issues: They are to feel the same effects that the
transitional character, Sasha, feels regarding questionable sero-status, willingness
to test despite the stigma, fear of losing social support. (How do they really feel?)
Develop Frameworks
Issues List:
Problems:
In some African countries, many women get HIV after
marriage because of their husbands
HIV-positive women are afraid to go for the HIV test due to
discrimination (UNAIDS, 2006d, p.134)
Women who already know their status are less likely to
attend any counseling or treatment sessions (Preventing Mother, n.d.).
Antiretroviral drugs have proven to decrease the rate of
MTCT from 20-45% to less than 2% in many western countries (Children, HIV,
n.d.).
HIV-positive women are advised to take antiretroviral
drugs to prevent MTCT. This treatment is also given to newborn babies for a short
time to reduce the chance of getting infected (Preventing Mother, n.d.).
Moral Framework?
Values Grid:
HIV/AID
It is good that women in the community get tested for HIV.
It is bad that women in the community
do not get tested for HIV.
It is good that HIV-positive women in their society know It is bad that HIV-positive women in their
society do not know about the increased health risks to her newborn child.
about the increased
health risks to her newborn child.
It is good that women get on a necessary antiretroviral It is bad that women do not get on a necessary
antiretroviral therapy prophylaxis if they tested positive.
therapy prophylaxis if they tested
positive.
It is good that individuals go for counseling and testing in
counseling and test-order to know their HIV/AIDS status.
status.
It is good that people practice safer sex.
It is good that people are aware of the link between STI It is bad that people are not aware of the link
between STI and HIV/AIDS.
and HIV/AIDS.
It is good that people go for treatment as soon as they get
It is bad that people do not go for
treatment as soon as they infected with STIs.
get infected with STIs.
Monitoring?
Impact Evaluation?