‘Before we were sleeping, now we are awake’

Community-based behavioural interventions aimed at reducing risky sexual behaviour have yet to be shown to be effective in the developing world. Stepping Stones is a participatory STI/HIV prevention workshop programme based on empowerment techniques, which has been adapted to an infertility prevention framework for The Gambia. Published in the African Journal of AIDS Research, this paper describes a preliminary evaluation in two villages where the intervention was carried out compared to two control villages.

Published date: 2002

Language(s): English