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General objectives
 SUNFLOWER
project will generate, collect and disseminate good practices,
information and data on HIV/AIDS prevention methods among young
people that will be used by national administrations,
professionals and other parties from New EU Member states that
work in the field of HIV prevention. SUNFLOWER consortium will
identify innovative strategies to promote safer sex among
adolescents and high risk populations, including access to
targeted services, and improved awareness of sexually transmitted
infections and their prevention. SUNFLOWER will be aimed at
provide strong basis for monitoring health determinants in this
critical field. Knowledge acquired through this project will be
disseminated above all in the New EU Member States: Bulgaria,
Romania, Slovak Republic, Czech Republic and Lithuania represent
the countries partners which will be assigned some of the
fundamental project activities. In addition, the project results
will be disseminated in Croatia by our local collaborating
partner. A further general objective will be to create an European
Network focused on HIV/AIDS prevention among young people most at
risk (men having sex with men (MSM), migrant populations,
injecting drug users, sex-workers, and others groups), and to help
them solving problems connected to their lifestyle that highly
turn out to be risky factors for the spread of the infection among
young people.
Strategic relevance
and contribution to the Public health programme
SUNFLOWER project is aligned to the
objectives expressed in the Public Health Programme, in fact:
- it will be focused on ways for the
exchange and dissemination of both national and international
experiences in raising awareness on HIV/AIDS and sexual health;
- it will identify good practice and
guidance on counselling and prevention of HIV spreading, taking
into account the diversity of specific vulnerable groups (such as
youth, migrant populations, injecting drug users and men having
sex with men (MSM);
- it will identify and disseminating
good practice related to harm reduction activities.
Methods and means
SUNFLOWER project will be structured
in four macro-tasks. Firstly, each partners will carry on the
analysis of the local contexts and the scientific aspects of the
HIV spreading in Europe studying the literature on the theme and
about the different local contexts; defining the common parameters
to analyse local contexts and the tools used to analyse the local
contexts. Secondly, starting from the analysis of local context
and thanks to the International seminars, the project partners
will be able to define and exchange good practices using
questionnaires and interviews with opinion leaders and sector
operators and semi-structured interviews with social, health and
educational operators working with young people and HIV/AIDS
prevention. After having analysed the local contexts and defining
and exchanged the good practices, the partners will organize an
European prevention campaign. The campaign will be organised by
young people, selected trough a competition concerning the
HIV/AIDS issues, coordinated by a Communication Expert of ANLAIDS.
The SUNFLOWER prevention campaign will support three intervention
modalities acting to create conditions to help adolescents, to
adopt beliefs, attitudes and behaviours that reduce their risk of
infection. These modalities, supported at local level, will
include advocacy, behaviour change communication and education. In
addition, the prevention campaign will be based on “Actions in
traditional field” as flyers with prevention information, posters
and handbooks and “Actions in digital field” as a project web
site. Finally, the local partners will work to implement the local
activities made up by young people, in particular the
experimentation of new prevention methods among young people. All
the actors involved will define a common plan of action to
implement the campaign with same guide lines. In this way the
common plan of action will ensure the collection of data and
information starting from a common ground. Moreover, all the
collected data and information will be compared and shared to
improve the future prevention campaign.
Expected outcomes
Each task has a precise outcome in
order to achieve the general objective of the project. The
identification of best practices among countries partner of
SUNFLOWER project in the fight against HIV/AIDS will aim to
promote safer sex among adolescents and high risk populations,
including access to targeted services, and raised awareness of
sexually transmitted infections and their prevention. These best
practices will help the NGOs and PAs of the New Member states
participating in the project to address in the best way the future
prevention campaigns and with the purpose to optimise their
results in the mid-term. The innovative European prevention
campaign will aim to raise the awareness of the young people most
at risk of infection living in the New Member states participating
in the project. The transfer of good practices in New European
Member states will aim to adapt the methodology of the local
actors working in the fight of HIV/AIDS to the identified good
practices and to the know-how of the most experienced partners to
create a multiplier effect of the prevention methods proposed by
the transfer of good practices. Finally, the experimentation of
new prevention models will aim to encourage a continuous
improvement of prevention campaigns for young people most at risk
of infection. |
