Tools for change: Strategies for effective community-based HIV prevention


Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

5012.0: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - Board 1

Abstract #122192

Susan L. Davies, PhD, Department of Health Behavior, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1665 University Blvd., Suite 227, Birmingham, AL 35294, (205) 975-8049, sdavies@uab.edu, Lucy Annang, MPH, Health Behavior, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 227 Ryals Public Health Building, 1665 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35294, and Scott D. Rhodes, PhD, MPH, CHES, Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Section on Social Sciences and Health Policy, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1063.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, the participants will be able to

(a) Describe the the benefits of using a community-based approach to HIV prevention programming; and
(b) Delineate 11 common elements of successful community-based HIV prevention programs as found in the research literature.

Keywords: Community-Based Public Health, HIV/AIDS

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.

Partnerships to Support HIV/AIDS Research and Practice

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