Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Empowering the people: Development of an HIV peer education model for low literacy rural communities in India | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Research Open Access Empowering the people Development of an HIV peer education model for low literacy rural communities in India Koen KA Van Rompay 1 2 Purnima Madhivanan3 Mirriam Rafiq1 Karl Krupp1 Venkatesan Chakrapani4 and Durai Selvam5 Address 1Sahaya International Inc. Davis USA 2University of California Davis USA 3University of California School of Public Health Berkeley USA 4Indian Network for People living with HIV AIDS Chennai India and 5Rural Education and Action Development READ Vilandai Andimadam Post Tamil Nadu India Email Koen KA Van Rompay - kkvanrompay@ Purnima Madhivanan - pmadhivanan@ Mirriam Rafiq - mirriamrafiq@ Karl Krupp - karl_krupp@ Venkatesan Chakrapani - cvenkatesan@ Durai Selvam - readpen@ Corresponding author Published 18 April 2008 Received 25 March 2007 Human Resources for Health 2008 6 6 doi 1478-4491-6-6 Accepted 18 April 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 6 2008 Van Rompay et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Despite ample evidence that HIV has entered the general population most HIV awareness programs in India continue to neglect rural areas. Low HIV awareness and high stigma fueled by low literacy seasonal migration gender inequity spatial dispersion and cultural taboos pose extra challenges to implement much-needed HIV education programs in rural areas. This paper describes a peer education model developed to educate and empower low-literacy communities in the rural district of Perambalur Tamil Nadu India . Methods From January to December 2005 six non-governmental organizations NGO s with good
