 | The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA |
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| The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA |
Michael Reece, PhD, MPH1, Enbal Shacham, MEd1, and Paul Plate, MS2. (1) Department of Applied Health Science, Indiana University, HPER Building 116, 1025 E. Seventh Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-7109, (2) Positive Impact Inc., 0000, At;lanta, GA 000
Community-based public health providers are challenged to develop and implement programmatically effective and fiscally efficient programs that are responsive to the needs of individuals living with HIV. Recent trends in the epidemic have resulted in the emergence of multiple sub-epidemics of HIV, each complicated by the cultural and social characteristics of the communities in which they have emerged. Over the past two years, academic researchers and community-based mental health providers have partnered to develop, implement, and evaluate a strategic series of interventions designed to be responsive to the cultural characteristics of low-income African American and Latino individuals living with HIV. Throughout the partnership, the partners have worked within the framework offered by the principles of community-based participatory research. This framework has provided critical guidance in four particular areas: 1) pre-intervention research, 2) intervention development, and 3) the development of an evaluation framework and evaluation protocols and instruments. Specific examples will be provided as to the manner in which the principles offered by this framework have been operationalized in this project and the characteristics of this framework that facilitate and challenge the research and intervention process will be discussed.
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Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.