Oz-Dev: Tingim Laip (Value Life) Phase 2

Tingim Laip is Papua New Guinea’s largest community-based HIV prevention strategy operating in 37 sites across 13 provinces. It was designed to respond to the urgent need for a targeted behaviour change intervention focusing on the most vulnerable populations in settings throughout the country where HIV transmission was known or likely to be high. 1.2 Tingim Laip Phase 2 (TL2 or “the Project”) will continue the work of Tingim Laip (TL) in focusing prevention interventions primarily on settings rather than on individuals or groups. The focus on settings also deflects stigma from individuals and groups who may already be vulnerable and offers a practical solution to some of the challenges raised in working with highly mobile populations. TL2’s focus on settings is about those locations where risks converge to create vulnerability i.e. individual, interpersonal, community and structural factors that affect peoples’ ability to protect themselves from the epidemic and to deal with its impact. Key features of Tingim Laip Phase 2 are: