The Peer-to-Peer HIV & AIDS Peer Educators Trainers' Guide for IMPACT Implementing Agencies in Nigeria is a Nigerian adaptation of various training guides for peer educators. It was developed to equip volunteers with the skills to help prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV/AIDS.

The Peer-to-Peer guide is intended for trainers who will train peer educators. The trained peer educators will, in turn, be expected to take up the challenge to educate their peers on HIV prevention. The trainers will facilitate a process for peer educators to engage in self-examination, learn the basics of STIs, HIV and AIDS, and improve their communication skills, and plan for peer education. The trainers will be leading peer educators to think and talk – about values, attitudes, beliefs, risks, behaviors, sex, sexuality, and relationships.

Peer educators will learn about their minds and bodies and what they need to do to keep both in a state of readiness - and how they can encourage their peers to do the same. By helping their peers to do the same, peer educators are expected to use the peer education approach to contribute significantly towards lowering the rates of HIV and STIs in their immediate communities and ultimately in the nation.

Finally, this is a guide, not a prescription. There are various exercises and all are sufficiently flexible to be adapted for whatever situation trainers may face. Trainers using these exercises may soon find it impossible to return to the old authoritarian ways of teaching. They will eventually find that they can take any new information and design and represent it in the form of exercises that are interactive, participatory and transforming. We hope that those who use this guide will become, with time, "authorities" in democratic teaching methods. In the meantime, have professionally fruitful training sessions!

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