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Potential Target Groups for HIV/AIDS Interventions and Activities
   Last updated: 16.08.02
School Youth interventions / Out of school youth
Male and female youth enrolled in primary schools (age 6-11)
Male and female youth enrolled in secondary schools (12-16)
Male and female youth aged 6-11 not enrolled in schools
Male and female youth aged 12-16 not enrolled in schools

Sex worker interventions
Sex workers in urban areas

Strengthening public sector condom distribution
Protection by condoms for all casual sex acts and of sex acts in regular partnerships (proportion of sex acts in regular partnerships set at 2% for the analysis)

Condom social marketing (including female condom)
Protection by condoms for all casual sex acts and proportion of sex acts in regular partnerships (proportion of sex acts in regular partnerships set at 2% for the analysis)

Strengthening STI services
Men (15-49) with curable symptomatic STIs and access to health services
Non-pregnant females (15-49) with curable symptomatic STIs and access to health services
Pregnant women with syphilis and access to health services

Voluntary counselling and testing (VCT)
Current sexually active population

Workplace interventions
HIV prevention activities: all males and females in formal employment
STI treatment: same groups as those for strengthening STI services, but limited to workplaces that have STI treatment.
Condom distribution: the number of sex acts requiring a condom (set at 100% causal and 2% of regular partnerships) for those in formal employment

Strengthening blood transfusion services
Units of blood used in transfusions

Prevention of MTCT
Screening (VCT): Pregnant women 15-49 with access to ante-natal services.
ARV treatment for pregnant women testing positive and formula for infants.

Mass media
National campaigns for entire country

Palliative care
For PLWHA who are symptomatic

Clinical management for opportunistic illness
For PLWHA with access to health services

Home-based care
For PLWHA who are symptomatic and have access to health services

Clinical care for children
Includes palliative care for all children who are HIV positive and symptomatic, and clinical care for children who are HIV positive and symptomatic with access to health services

Prevention of OIs (cotrimoxazole and TB preventive therapy)
For PLWHA who are symptomatic and have access to health services

Support for orphans
All AIDS orphans less than 15 years old

Psycho-social support and counselling
For PLWHA who are symptomatic

Treatment (HAART)
For PLWHA with access to health services

Notes
This is one of two tables included to provide more information about specific HIV/AIDS Interventions. It should be noted, however, that the interventions are listed from the perspective of a national agency delivering services, rather than that of NGOs as described in this paper.

Source: WHO/UNAIDS 2000: “Key Elements in Care and Support” (draft working document) as cited by Lamptey, P.R., Zeitz, P., Larivee, C. (Eds.) (2001) Strategies for an Expanded and Comprehensive Response (ECR) to a National HIV/AIDS Epidemic. Draft of July 10. MODULE 6: Technical Considerations of an Expanded and Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Response. Family Health International (Washington, D.C.)

Source: A Question of Scale
This is an extract from A Question of Scale: The challenge of expanding the impact of non-governmental organisations’ HIV/AIDS efforts in developing countries,
by Jocelyn DeJong, published by the Horizons Project of the Population Council with the International HIV/AIDS Alliance in 2001. To view the whole report follow this link.

To download, complete with graphics, in pdf format (which requires Adobe Acrobat software to read it) follow this link (file size 1.43 Mbytes).