As part of its commitment to engaging in research that is useful to the broader community, HIVAN has introduced a series of community resource booklets based on its field-studies.
The booklets are available in hard copy (while stocks last) and electronically, (downloadable from this website, see below ).
A summary of each resource is provided below, together with costs of ordering hard-copies and the URL for downloads of electronic versions.

For more information or to obtain copies of HIVAN resources, please contact:

Dianne Merchant -Tel: 031 260 3052; Fax: 031 260 2013; E-mail: [email protected]

Bank Deposits can be made to:

Bank: First National Bank
Account Holder: University of KwaZulu-Natal
Account No: 5087 193 2932
Branch Code: 223 626
Branch Name: Durban Corporate

Please note that resources will only be dispatched on faxed proof of payment into the above account.

Copies can also be collected at cost price from the HIVAN offices, as follows:

Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN), Public Affairs Annex,Howard College Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 232 King George V Avenue , Durban
Office hours: 8.00 am – 4.30 pm

Supporting Youth: Broadening the approach to HIV/AIDS prevention programmes

(Catherine Campbell, Carol Ann Foulis, Sbongile Maimane, Zweni Sibiya)

The aim of many HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns is to pass on information. Yet, even with the right information, many young people do not take steps to protect themselves from infection. As a result, they are often blamed for the problems facing HIV/AIDS prevention.

This booklet argues that blaming youth is not fair. Very often, young people live in social environments that prevent them from taking control of their sexual health. It is these social environments that need to change along with individual people.

Whilst the booklet draws on a single case-study to make its points, it outlines a generalisable model of “Six essential components for successful HIV/AIDS prevention programmes”. This will be useful for anyone interested in working with young people to protect their sexual health – through facilitating the development of social environments that support young peoples’ efforts to protect their sexual health.

URL for download: http://www.hivan.org.za/booklets/Supporting%20Youth%20Booklet.pdf

Cost: R10,00 each (SOLD OUT!!!)

Understanding and challenging HIV/AIDS stigma

(Catherine Campbell, Yugi Nair, Sbongile Maimane, Zweni Sibiya)

Many people have negative attitudes towards those who have HIV/AIDS, and their families. These attitudes – which are called stigma - undermine HIV/AIDS care and prevention and cause great personal suffering and tragedy. The fight against HIV/AIDS and the fight against stigma have to go hand-in-hand: it is not possible to challenge one without challenging the other.

The aim of this book is to encourage individuals, groups and communities to think and talk about their own experiences of the rejection, secrecy, isolation and fear as a result of stigma, and then to develop ways to overcome it. Some anti-stigma programmes rely on the provision of information about HIV/AIDS, but on its own, this is not enough. In addition to receiving information, communities need to examine how stigma affects them in their particular contexts and what responses are possible and appropriate for their situation. It presents responses and strategies formulated at a local level for tackling barriers to openness about HIV/AIDS and sexual health, focusing on communities’ own narratives and proposed solutions

The content of this book comes from the experiences of two communities, one near Durban and the other in a rural area near Empangeni. The lessons from these two communities are used as a starting point for other communities to begin to discuss and critically analyse their own stories of stigma and its causes.

Cost: R10,00 each

Mailing and Administration: R10,00 per copy

URL for download: http://www.hivan.org.za/booklets/stigma.pdf

Babiza’s Story/ Indaba kaBabiza

(Siphelele Ndlovu)

Babiza’s Story / Indaba ka Babiza, the first in a series entitled “By Children for Children through Books”, inspired by the Convention of the Rights of the Child.

Published in November 2004, this 34-page, illustrated booklet relays 10-year-old Siphelele Ndlovu’s personal account of his encounter with the epidemic.

Cost: R10,00 each

Mailing and Administration: R10,00 per copy

URL for download: http://www.hivan.org.za/booklets/BABIZAS.pdf

“Deadly Myths?”

A 50 minute docu-drama produced by social anthropologist Jill Kruger. This film, in attempting to address the challenge of breaking through the ignorance and prejudice surrounding HIV/AIDS, journalises a range of myths and misperceptions relating to the epidemic. The documentary highlights how people, both infected or affected by the epidemic at grassroots level, cope with what people at ground level are doing to deal with a virus that most, if not all, are affected by within their community. The film is available in both VHS and DVD formats.

Cost: DVD / Video R120,00 each

Mailing and Administration: R15,00 per copy