The AIDS pandemic knows no skin colour, race, creed, tribe or age, hence it can affect/infect anyone, including vulnerable children.While the AIDS awareness campaign has reached various target groups, it seems one particular group, the street children, has apparently not been reached, largely because of the elusive nature of this group. Conventional approaches have clearly failed to work with this target group. The difficulties experienced in attempts to reach this high risk group demand that alternative strategies to promoting HIV/AIDS awareness be pursued. This article makes a call for an alternative strategy that is deliberately imaginative and innovative. It makes a case for the peer education strategy as a model for disseminating AIDS education and awareness among street children. It highlights the basic clements of the strategy and argues that the model has potential for success, particularly given that it involves use of people who understand the situation on the streets.
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