Over the course of seven-week exploration, learning about HIV/AIDS, we’ve established a workshop in order to combat HIV/AIDS discrimination through normalizing conversations, dispelling common myths, and raising awareness about HIV/AIDS transmission, prevention, and treatment.
In this workshop, we’ve divided into four sessions including general information about HIV/AIDS, Transmission and Prevention, Treatment, and Stigmas/Discriminations. We covered main information and some activities that would help them to understand aspects of HIV/AIDS. We’re trying to compress every content into a four-hour workshop without sounding too scientific.
The workshop that happened on the 28th of March was successful with audience engaging, session leaders explaining, and the atmosphere turning this topic into an influential one. We are educating people to understand that HIV is just the same as other viruses, that AIDS is not a consequence of bad doings, that people living with HIV are just like people living without HIV, and that the only difference between them is people living with HIV need to take their treatments. We have established this workshop to be a safe space for everybody since it covered some sensitive topics that people might have a hard time dealing with. It turned out that everybody was honest and opened themselves to this topic and that we as the session leaders were touched and grateful for everyone’s participation. We’re also doing a modified version of this workshop in Khmer targeting the high school Cambodian students as well.
Our mission statement: “Cambodian youth combating HIV/AIDS discrimination through normalizing conversations, dispelling common myths, and raising awareness about HIV/AIDS transmission, prevention, and treatment.”
Here are further details on Google presentations that we’ve made:
General Information about HIV/AIDS
