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Table 4 Suggestions for Improvement

From: Perspectives of education sector stakeholders on a teacher training module to reduce HIV/AIDS stigma in Western Kenya

Language considerations

‘We can maybe have a Kiswahili translation of it for those who may not be understanding the English language comfortably or even the vernaculars.’- Secondary school teacher

Visual changes

‘The animation. It was good I think you should just add some a bit of color for it to be appealing to the eyes.’- HIV negative adolescent

‘I was imagining it should be more of pictorials added because especially us Kenyans, reading a whole story that is written in this manner, most people do not have that patience. A pictorial could have serviced.’- Secondary school teacher

Using real situations

‘Also the time that you will be presenting, how about you bring someone who is HIV positive to share his/her story with them?’- Adolescent community advisory board

‘Now what we can only add here is, maybe you can give examples of people who have lived with the disease for a certain number of years. They have lived healthy for certain number of years, they have been living healthy throughout their lives, they have lived with the disease, and they have lived up to a hundred years or something like that.’- Primary school teacher

‘I think also the best way we can do it, if we have people or adolescents, they share the real life experience, so that the other people can know it is, this thing is real. The experience. They share what they normally go through, I think it can also help teachers to understand that this thing is real how they are being discriminated in school, how they want to be handled in school, I think when we have people with the disease they explain their life experience, it can really help.’- Nurse

Gender differences

‘My worry initially was that the first two examples is for boys. I was getting worried, what about teachers who handle girls in a school setting and what have you.’- Secondary school teacher

‘We can still add another one like a girl, so that the girls can still express...you know the challenges that the boys are passing, and the challenges the girls, you know girls have more challenges than boys. If we can still add the video for the girls.’-Nurse