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Programmes/ Projects Supported by ATF

2016

Programmes / Projects supported by the AIDS Trust Fund in January 2016

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Application: Project Touch (Executive Summary submitted by the applicant)
Applicant: The Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association of Hong Kong
Objectives: The objectives of this programme are:
  1. to provide early intervention and promote sustainable behavioral change among young MSM through intensive community based, peer-led multi-leveled early intervention. A diverse and youth centered mode of service delivery, including multi-session group intervention, peer education, peer support network and mass programs will be provided to increase the awareness of young MSM towards their vulnerability to HIV, to raise their HIV/STI knowledge, to understand their risk limits and personal boundary and to master negotiation skills in regards to condom use;
  2. to empower and mobilize young MSM to take charge in the prevention campaign and develop new initiatives that truly meet the need of MSM;
  3. to extend the service to two new centers in the New Territories;
  4. to recruit, train, mobilize and support young MSM Popular Opinion Leaders to effectively spread safer sex messages to their peers;
  5. to reach out hard-to-reach younger MSM and PLHIV aged 16-29 online and encourage condom use and regular testing;
  6. to provide early HIV education and risk prevention to younger MSM and PLHIV who mostly seek friends and sex online and have weaker socio-emotional support;
  7. to support PLHIV aged 16-29 and reduce their risk behaviour;
  8. to upscale VCT service in HIV and syphilis for newly come out and high risk young MSM and strengthen VCT service in remote area;
  9. to mobilise young MSM participating in HIV prevention by training and empowering the young community leaders to be VCT counsellors;
  10. to tackle the unsafe sex practice among couples and address the psychosocial factors behind such as difficulties in developing intimacy and commitment, open relationship, family issues and mental health, boundaries setting, power & control, etc.;
  11. to collaborate with multi-disciplinary professional in case consultation and counseling with young MSM with high risk behaviours;
  12. to increase teachers, social workers and medical professionals’ awareness on HIV prevention and skills on working with MSM through providing sensitivity and skill-building trainings;
  13. to equip parents with knowledge in HIV and have better communication with gay children; and
  14. to run school educational workshops and visits and public exhibition.
Project Duration: June 2016 to March 2019
Contact Person: Mr. Chau Chun Yam
Assistant Social Work Officer
Room 203, Lung Poon Court Commercial Centre,
Diamond Hill, Kowloon
Telephone: 2320 4005
Fax: 2328 6401