CrowdOutAIDS

Pragmatic experience accrue out of personal or community experiences both on social cognitive process and people's personal experiences to identify characteristics and definitions of influencing factors to issues. As we focus on current vision of Zero New HIV Infections; Zero AIDS related Deaths; and Zero Stigma; key question is: what is likely, from the individual perspective, to hinder success in attaining the vision. All forms of phobic responses account for most answers. Therefore, "Lay Perspectives" of target audiences have become more relevant at every level of interventions than ever before. The pool of knowledge at individual and community level are influenced mainly by crude and lay ways people as individuals and members of groups generate knowledge on different aspects of their lives. Notwithstanding, the basis for policy formulation should be an amalgation of positivist and other alternative approaches to generating knowledge. Solving problems should be guided by the understanding that human decisions, choices, behaviours, practices, dynamics are heterogeneous than they are homogeneous. Every moment in life is a learning event, and therefore unpredictable, not easy for direct observation and experimentation. Therefore, flexible approaches are a pathway to successful strategies to both youth and any other community initiative!