Sexual Risk Reduction Training

AMFAR: Men who have Sex with Men (MSM)

MSM (men who have sex with men) is one of the key areas SAPTA has been able to source funding for HIV/AIDS alcohol/drugs risk reduction, funded by the amfAR organization. SAPTA activities with MSM focus on the coastal region of Kenya. So far, SAPTA has been able to run training workshops for MSM HIV/AIDS peer educators in Mombasa (Kenya's second largest city), Mombasa South Coast Ukunda and Lamu island along the Kenyan Coast, through collaborating with International Centre of Research and Health (ICRH). The training workshops focused on Alcohol/Drug/HIV/AIDS risk reduction modification among MSMs.

The training equips the participants with skills and techniques of outreach interventions that they will use with their peers. So far, the trainings have produced 36 peer educators involved in active outreach work, both at Ukunda and Lamu respectively.
Under a grant from Ford Foundation 40 MSM HIV/AIDS peer counselors had been trained in Mombasa.