Training Resources for Counselors, Educators
and Outreach Workers

Test Counselor Resources

• Theory and Practice of Client-Centered Counseling and Testing, Nicolas Sheon, HIV InSite Knowledge Base Chapter, June 2004: Includes Guidelines, Training Materials, Articles, and Research Protocols.
• How Accurate is the HIV Antibody Test, CDC Factsheet, 1997.
• HIV Antibody Assays(AIDS Knowledge Base)
• SF Bay Area Referral Lists (Includes the New Linkages Resource Lists)
• Ask InSite Frequently Asked Questions about Transmission, Safer Sex and the Accuracy of Tests, edited by Nicolas Sheon, PhD.
• Confession and HIV Test Counseling (Nicolas Sheon's Dissertation Project)
• HIV Subtypes: a quick primer
• Using transcripts to evaluate counseling strategies, papers from the Managing Desire Conference, April 10, 1996
• Learn from other counselors: Index of Test Counselor Narratives
  This section contains extracts from interviews with HIV test counselors about difficult clients and the strategies for counseling them.

Guidelines

• Checklist for harm reduction test counseling, by Nicolas Sheon
• Open Ended Questions for Test Counselors by Nicolas Sheon
• Applying Harm Reduction to HIV Test Counseling, by Kristen Ochoa, etc.
• Revised Guidelines for HIV Counseling, Testing, and Referral, CDC, Nov. 9, 2001
• Rapid Testing for HIV: Implications for Prevention and Test Counseling A collection of articles and links related to Rapid Testing.
• Key Issues in Counseling and Testing, CDC Satellite Broadcast in Real Audio

New Therapies and New Testing Technologies

• New Testing Technologies: Implications for Prevention Strategy by Nicolas Sheon, Testing technologies are changing rapidly and the current prevention infrastructure must take advantage of new opportunities.
• HIV Home Tests and Youth: For a Testing Controversy, Press 1 Bridges volume 3(1) Winter 1997.
• Understanding the Impact of New Treatments on HIV Testing Summary of a January 28-30, 1998, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Forum.
• HIV Prevention and the New Virology, by Edward King

Safer Sex

• Hot Sex, Safely: A Guide to Safer Sex Techniques: The best and most comprehensive online safer sex guide from the Society for Human Sexuality
• Guide to Safer Unsafe Sex (i.e. barebacking) from Bareback Jack
• HIV InSite Safer Sex Page
• Safer Sex Page Features fact sheets, newsletters, brochures, safer sex forum, info for counselors.
• Safer Sex Tips for Lesbians
• Oral Sex Information for Counselors from California Office of AIDS
• San Francisco Sex Information
• Just Say Yes! It's about saying "yes" to sex you do want, and "no" to sex you don't.
• Solo: a great website promoting masturbation

Latex, Lube and Dams

• Where to get it (in bulk): A provider's guide to buying prevention supplies
• Solutions to Some Common Condom Problems Nicolas Sheon, Berkeley Free Clinic
• Demonstrating and Marketing Condoms and Lube Nicolas Sheon, Berkeley Free Clinic
• The Soft Sell Counselor Narrative about getting men to use condoms
• Do Condoms Work? CAPS Factsheet
• The Truth About Latex Condoms SIECUS Fact Sheet
• The Latex Condom: Recent Advances, Future Directions from FHI
• Male Latex Condoms and Sexually Transmitted Diseases CDC, December, 2002.
• Microbicides As An Alternative Solution
• Nonoxynol-9: No Good for HIV Prevention: from the CDC, 1997.
• Where to find Dental Dams and Gloves
• Good Vibrations Lots of info on safer sex and pleasure including "Dental Dams: Frequently Asked Questions"
• FDA Requirements for Testing Barrier Methods for STD Prevention
• A Girl's Guide to Condoms: For Girl's Only!

Ordering Safer Sex Supplies Online

• Blowfish
• Condom Sense
• Condomania offers a good selection of condoms and some useful information
• Condom Country
• Good Vibrations features an excellent selection of latex supplies, toys, and guides to good sex. A good place to look for that hard-to-find brand of dental dams.
• Official Condom Directory (Lists dozens of condom related sites)