Title | Mobilizing communities around HIV prevention for youth: how three coalitions applied key strategies to bring about structural changes. |
Publication Type | Publication |
Year of Publication | 2010 |
Authors | Chutuape KS, Willard N, Sanchez K, Straub DM, Ochoa TN, Howell K, Rivera C, Ramos I, Ellen JM |
Corporate Authors | Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions |
Journal | AIDS Educ Prev |
Volume | 22 |
Issue | 1 |
Pagination | 15-27 |
Date Published | 2010 Feb |
ISSN | 1943-2755 |
Keywords | Adolescent, Black or African American, Child, Community Networks, Community-Based Participatory Research, Community-Institutional Relations, Female, Florida, Hispanic or Latino, HIV Infections, Humans, Male, Organizational Case Studies, Prisons, Puerto Rico, Sex Education, Sex Offenses, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Urban Population, Young Adult |
Abstract | <p>Increasingly, HIV prevention efforts must focus on altering features of the social and physical environment to reduce risks associated with HIV acquisition and transmission. Community coalitions provide a vehicle for bringing about sustainable structural changes. This article shares lessons and key strategies regarding how three community coalitions located in Miami and Tampa, Florida, and San Juan, Puerto Rico engaged their respective communities in bringing about structural changes affecting policies, practices and programs related to HIV prevention for 12-24-year-olds. Outcomes of this work include increased access to HIV testing and counseling in the juvenile correctional system (Miami), increased monitoring of sexual abuse between young women and older men within public housing, and support services to deter age discordant relationships (Tampa) and increased access to community-based HIV testing (San Juan).</p> |
DOI | 10.1521/aeap.2010.22.1.15 |
Alternate Journal | AIDS Educ Prev |
PubMed ID | 20166784 |
PubMed Central ID | PMC2850206 |
Grant List | U01 HD 040533 / HD / NICHD NIH HHS / United States U01 HD040474 / HD / NICHD NIH HHS / United States U01 HD040497 / HD / NICHD NIH HHS / United States U01 HD040533-01 / HD / NICHD NIH HHS / United States U01 HD040470 / HD / NICHD NIH HHS / United States U01 HD040533 / HD / NICHD NIH HHS / United States U01 HD 040474 / HD / NICHD NIH HHS / United States |