PUBLIC AWARENESS PROJECT ON THE PREVENTION OF STI-HIV/AIDS WAS COMPLETTED

 

Public Awareness Project on the Prevention of STI-HIV/AIDS, started on 7 th of April in Central and Eastern Black Sea Region (Sinop, Samsun , Rize Trabzon, Ordu, Giresun, Hopa) was completed on 7 th April 2007. The project lasted 12 months aimed to to increase awareness of the 40% of population living in city centers, that are above 15 years olds, specially the people who can influence various segments of the society, young people, people with hearing or seeing disabilities as well as construction workers, on prevention of STI and HIV infection, to increase condom use in the target region as well as to increase access to and utilisation of STI services, including screening counseling and treatment at the target area.


All activities in scope of the project were realized without any modification and targets of the project were reached.

Here are some of the figures of the project activities implemented:

  • 27 local authorities in total at 7 cities were visited and the project was introduced.
  • In scope of the social marketing campaign, TV and radio programmes and TV and radio spots on to prevention and protection methods concerning HIV/AIDS and STI, access to related health services were produced.
  • 4 programmes were broadcasted for 300 times, 270.000 seconds long in total, on 5 local/regional TVs ( Samsun  KLAS TV, Giresun TEMPO TV, Ordu KANAL 52, Trabzon Zigana TV, Rize, Rize TV).
  • A TV advertisement was broadcasted for 1200 times, 12.000 seconds long in total, on 5 local/regional TVs ( Samsun  KLAS TV, Giresun TEMPO TV, Ordu KANAL 52, Trabzon Zigana TV, Rize, Rize TV)
  • 4 radio programmes were aired for 630 times, 180.000 seconds long in total, on 6 local/regional radios ( Samsun KLAS FM, Giresun TEMPO FM, Ordu RADYO 52, Trabzon Karadeniz FM, Rize Rize'nin Sesi, Sinop Barış FM)
  • A radio spot aired for 2100 times, 21.000 seconds long in total, on 6 local/regional radios ( Samsun KLAS FM, Giresun TEMPO FM, Ordu RADYO 52, Trabzon Karadeniz FM, Rize Rize'nin Sesi, Sinop Barış FM)
  • 18 newspaper advertisements, one at a time in regional editions of 2 national newspapers ( Sabah ( Ankara edition), Takvim ( Ankara edition)), 4 times at 4 local/regional newspapers ( Samsun HABER GAZETESİ, Ordu OLAY, Trabzon KARADENİZ GAZETESİ, Rize FIRTINA GAZETESİ) were published.
  • 7000 stickers were printed and distributed.
  • 120 billboards were hanged in Trabzon , Samsun , Ordu, Giresun and Rize.
  • 400 posters were hanged up in project settlements.


Project activities were covered both local and national media;

  • 19 news coverage in LOCAL TV Channels
  • 61 news coverage on INTERNET (widely used at LOCAL LEVEL)
  • 41 news coverage in LOCAL PAPERS
  • 3 news in 2 national newspaper.
  • 1 news on www.trt.gov.tr .
  • 1 news coverage in nation-wide magazine.
  • 9 news coverage on INTERNET (widely used at NATIONAL LEVEL)
  • 1 news in TRT
  • 60.000 leaflets on the project topics were disseminated in the target area.
  • Web page www.korkmakorun.com was prepared and announced in 10 different local/regional popular web sites for 6 months. By the end of the project 234 questions were received. The experts answered the questions on weekly basis. The web page was visited for 23344 times.
  • 16 doctors received training of trainers for 2 days in Samsun on prevention and protection methods concerning HIV/AIDS and STI, access to related health services. 1380 pages coloured presentation printouts for experts on prevention and protection methods concerning HIV/AIDS and STI, access to related health services and communication skills were prepared and printed out.
  • 11 informative seminars for 590 representatives of 28 different institutions were realized
  • In scope of the community leader trainings, 52 groups including young people, seeing disabled people, hearing impaired people, members of local NGOs, students were trained in 7 project settlements. In total, 846 people were trained in scope this activity.


In scope of the project exit activities;

  • A TV advertisement was produced and broadcasted for 1200 times and 12000 seconds in total.
  • 18 newspaper announcement were realized
  • 2 Capacity building meetings in Samsun and Trabzon with approximately 85 attendants from participating institutions, NGO's, chambers, unions were realized.
 
Added: 23/10/2007