In this notebook, we learn about how the development agency CARE-Bangladesh involved key stakeholders, particularly a transport workers’ union, in the task of HIV/AIDS prevention in Bangladesh. This story provides important insights into engaging key stakeholders in advocacy work that is socially acceptable and relevant to the lives and experience of target communities.
AIDS
Using traditional leaders to combat ignorance and to bring communities together
Buddhist monks, nuns, and novices offer practical and spiritual assistance to people with HIV and to their communities in an attempt to bring communities together and to fight the ignorance and stigma around HIV/AIDS. The Sangha Metta project trains monks, nuns, and novices in all areas of intervention for people living with or affected by AIDS.
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