Treatment Literacy and Prevention Practitioners

The Treatment Literacy and Prevention Practitioners (TLPPs) are recruited and provided with intensive in-house training which equips them to take Treatment Literacy messages regarding a wide range of topics about HIV/ AIDS and related issues to public clinics, hospitals and schools. There are 70 TLPPs across five provinces who work in dedicated sites (clinics, hospitals and schools) on a daily basis, providing face-to-face treatment literacy sessions and making use of the Treatment Literacy DVD series. As far as possible, we aim to recruit TLPPs to work in their local communities.

Currently we have TLPPs are operating in 34 clinics where they provide Treatment Literacy sessions regarding abstinence, being faithful and other prevention strategies plus Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT), palliative care and TB, and treatment issues such as antiretroviral therapy, adherence, side effects etc. TLPPs are currently working in 40 schools where they train peer educators and promote prevention through delaying sexual activity, partner reduction and safer sex.