Addressing the Diverse Needs of Adolescents Through Community-Based Collaboration and Consultation: Project VIDA'S SHEROS Program: An Innovation for HIV Prevention with Female Mexican Adolescents

Objectives: The intervention objectives were to evaluate and describe the feasibility of using a community-based research (CBR) approach to adapt and implement HIV-prevention materials and tools with incarcerated men. We found no prior published reports about CBR HIV-prevention education in Canadian correctional facilities. Methods: Twelve members of the correctional Peer Education Committee (PEC) and Aboriginal PEC, whom a correctional nurse identified as being interested in preventive health, were purposively invited to participate. Eight participants were serving life sentences, three were Aboriginal and their education levels ranged from below grade 8 to 11 years of post-secondary education. The setting was a medium-security federal correctional facility, housing 324 men. The intervention was guided by CBR and ‘greater involvement of people with AIDS’ principles. Participants were invited to attend four workshops, over seven days in May 2014, and to provide their insights regarding future scaled-up CBR HIV prevention. Each workshop included an HIV-prevention presentation and a focus group discussion, two of which were audio-recorded. Findings: All participants attended all sessions. Synthesis of mixed-method findings, with quantitative and qualitative data triangulation, demonstrated two major outcomes: ‘new knowledge was generated’ regarding feasibility of CBR HIV prevention in a men’s correction facility; and ‘capacity building occurred’ with increased participants’ social capital. Thirty incarcerated men requested HIV testing following the intervention, because participants spread their knowledge about HIV prevention to others. Participants asked to become ‘health ambassadors’ – champion advisors for future scaled-up CBR HIV-prevention intervention for the entire correctional facility. Conclusion: CBR HIV prevention is feasible within a Canadian men’s correctional facility.

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Impact of Facility- and Community-Based Peer Support Models on Maternal Uptake and Retention in Malawiʼs Option B+ HIV Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Program

JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes ◽

10.1097/qai.0000000000001357 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 75 ◽

pp. S140-S148 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Sam Phiri ◽

Hannock Tweya ◽

Monique van Lettow ◽

Nora E. Rosenberg ◽

Clement Trapence ◽

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Keyword(s):

Hiv Prevention ◽

Peer Support ◽

Mother To Child Transmission ◽

Child Transmission ◽

Community Based ◽

Mother To Child

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Community Based HIV Prevention Interventions In Africa: A Systematic Review

10.32920/ryerson.14651988.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Sarah Ibrahim

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Hiv Prevention ◽

Teaching Method ◽

Mode Of Delivery ◽

Risk Behaviour ◽

Community Based ◽

Theoretical Underpinning ◽

Hiv Prevention Intervention ◽

Prevention Interventions ◽

Hiv Prevention Interventions

This systematic review is the first to examine the characteristics of community-based HIV prevention interventions, specifically the theoretical underpinning, type and number of components, dose, mode of delivery, and teaching method; and explore the effects of the intervention characteristics on HIV-related knowledge and engagement in risk behaviour among young persons in Africa. A total of 5 studies were included in this review. Conceptual and operational definitions of the intervention characteristics guided the coding and extraction of data from the reports. The overall results of this study showed variability in theoretical underpinning, dose, and mode of delivery of interventions. Multi-component interventions using mixed teaching method produced the desired effect on knowledge and risk behaviour. The examination of community based HIV prevention intervention characteristics provides direction for the development of efficient future interventions to decrease the transmission of HIV among young persons in Africa.

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A Dynamic Model of Client Recruitment and Retention in Community-Based HIV Prevention Programs

Health Promotion Practice ◽

10.1177/1524839909332137 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 135-146 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Robin Lin Miller ◽

Ralph L. Levine ◽

Miles A. McNall ◽

Kevin Khamarko ◽

Maria Teresa Valenti

Keyword(s):

Hiv Prevention ◽

Dynamic Model ◽

Prevention Programs ◽

Community Based ◽

Recruitment And Retention

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HIV Prevention Programs Delivered by Community-Based Organizations to Young Transgender Persons of Color: Lessons Learned to Improve Future Program Implementation

International Journal of Transgenderism ◽

10.1080/15532739.2013.824846 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 127-139 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Deborah J. Gelaude ◽

Melanie L. Sovine ◽

Robert Swayzer ◽

Jeffrey H. Herbst

Keyword(s):

Hiv Prevention ◽

Program Implementation ◽

Prevention Programs ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Organizations ◽

Transgender Persons ◽

Future Program

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Antiviral Marketing: The Informationalization of HIV Prevention

Canadian Journal of Communication ◽

10.22230/cjc.2019v44n2a3331 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Margaret MacAulay

Keyword(s):

Hiv Prevention ◽

Gay Men ◽

San Francisco ◽

Information Technologies ◽

Participatory Process ◽

Community Based ◽

Immunodeficiency Virus ◽

Virus De L’Immunodéficience Humaine

Background Leveraging the affordances of technology to enhance human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention efforts has become an increasing public health priority. Grounded in a case study examining the role of networked information technologies in reshaping the HIV prevention landscape for gay men in San Francisco and Vancouver, this article proposes that HIV prevention has become informationalized. Analysis The informationalization of HIV prevention is a convergent and participatory process where networked information technologies not only mediate but also produce HIV risk subjectivities, discourses, and practices in ambivalent ways.Conclusion and implications This article argues that although informationalization creates many important opportunities to revitalize HIV prevention, the binary logic of data and code can unwittingly reproduce hierarchies of guilt/innocence and perpetrator/victim that pose challenges for community-based HIV advocacy efforts.Contexte L’utilisation des dernières technologies pour contrer le virus de l’immunodéficience humaine (VIH) est devenue de plus en plus prioritaire en santé publique. Cet article se fonde sur une étude de cas portant sur comment les technologies de l’information en réseau ont modifié la prévention du VIH parmi les hommes gais à San Francisco et Vancouver. L’étude suggère que dans ces circonstances la prévention du VIH est devenue informationnalisée. Analyse Cette informationnalisation est un processus convergent et participatif où les réseaux informationnels ne font pas que transmettre les subjectivités, pratiques et discours relatifs au risque du VIH mais aussi produisent ceux-ci de manières ambivalentes.Conclusions et implications Cet article soutient que, bien que l’informationnalisation crée de nombreuses occasions pour améliorer la prévention du VIH, la logique binaire de « données » et « codes » peut par inadvertance reproduire certaines hiérarchies (culpabilité/innocence, agresseur/victime) qui entravent les efforts de la communauté pour prévenir le VIH.

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‘Break the Chains 2015’ community-based HIV prevention campaign for men who have sex with men in Switzerland: non-randomised evaluation and cost analysis

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032459 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. e032459

Author(s):

Kathrin Frey ◽

Stéphanie Lociciro ◽

Patricia Blank ◽

Matthias Schwenkglenks ◽

Françoise Dubois-Arber ◽

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Keyword(s):

At Risk ◽

Hiv Prevention ◽

Cost Analysis ◽

Hiv Testing ◽

Community Based ◽

Prevention Campaign ◽

Sex With Men ◽

Hiv Acquisition ◽

Risk Of Hiv Acquisition ◽

Campaign Message

ObjectivesTo study the implementation, effects and costs of Break the Chains, a community-based HIV prevention campaign for men who have sex with men (MSM) in Switzerland, from March to May 2015, which aimed to reduce early HIV transmission by promoting the campaign message to adopt short-term risk reduction followed by HIV testing.DesignNon-randomised evaluation and cost analysis.SettingGay venues in 11 of 26 cantons in Switzerland and national online media campaign.ParticipantsMSM in online surveys (precampaign n=834, postcampaign n=688) or attending HIV testing centres (n=885); campaign managers (n=9); and campaign staff (n=38) or further intermediaries (n=80) in an online survey.Primary and secondary outcome measuresThe primary outcome measure was the proportion of MSM at risk of HIV acquisition or transmission who adhered to the campaign message. Secondary outcomes were postcampaign test uptake, knowledge about HIV primary infection and sense of belonging to the gay community.ResultsCampaign staff estimated that they contacted 17 145 MSM in 11 cantons. Among 688 respondents to the postcampaign survey, 311 (45.2%) were categorised as MSM at risk. Of 402/688 (58.5%) MSM who had heard about Break the Chains 2015, MSM categorised as being at risk were less likely to report adherence to the campaign message than MSM not at risk (adjusted OR 0.24; 95% CI 0.14 to 0.42). Twenty per cent of MSM with a defined risk of HIV acquisition or transmission who adopted risk reduction declared having done so because of the campaign. Costs for one MSM at risk to adhere to the campaign message were estimated at USD purchasing power parity 36–55. The number of HIV tests in the month after the campaign was twice the monthly average.ConclusionBreak the Chains increased HIV testing, implying that community-based campaigns are useful HIV prevention strategies for MSM. Additional interventions are needed to reach MSM at the highest risk of infection more effectively.

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