Peer Facilitator Skills ___________________________________________________
Objectives
By the end of this session , participants will be able to define stigma , describe how young Objectives people experience stigma , and how stigma affects young people ’ s access to harm reduction services and HIV treatment . In addition , participants will be able to describe three barriers affecting young people ’ s access to harm reduction services .
Expected time of activity : 20 minutes .
Activity
Write the following questions on a big piece of paper or on a board and ask the training Activity participants to answer during a large group discussion :
o What is “ stigma ”? o How do young people experience stigma ? Have you ever been stigmatised ?
Ask participants to share their thoughts for 5 to 10 minutes . After the discussion has taken its course and people around the room have had an opportunity to learn what others think , pose the following two questions on a big piece of paper or on a board . Make sure that nobody from the group has seen these questions during the first part of the activity :
o How might young people experience stigma when they are a drug user , sex worker and / or HIV positive ? o How are people living with HIV , drug users or sex workers described by some people ?
Open up the discussion again and allow another 5 to 10 minutes for the group to discuss these two questions . If the discussion needs some prompts to get going , ask the group to list some of the names that drug users or sex workers are called . You may write these words on a big piece of paper or on a board and then ask participants to reflect