To help raise the skills of country-level United Nations technical staff in leading HIV prevention efforts and reducing new infections, EnCompass designed four customized regional workshops for staff in Southern Africa, Eastern Africa, Middle East and North Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The curriculum addresses knowing the epidemic and response, national strategic planning, leadership skills, gender equality and human rights, cost analysis and best practices in prevention interventions. We developed comprehensive facilitators’ guides, a video briefing for the executive staff, a brochure detailing the program’s HIV prevention initiatives, and delivered a three-hour session at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna in 2010.

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