Formative work and community engagement approaches for implementing an HIV intervention in Botswana schools

K.S. Miller, H.J. Cham, E.M. Taylor, F.L. Berrier, M. Duffy, J. Vig, L. Chipazi, C. Chakalisa, S. Sidibe, K. Swart, N.S. Tau and L.F. Clark

American Journal of Public Health, 2016, vol. 106, issue 8, 1439-1441

Abstract: Providing adolescents with evidence-based sexual risk reduction interventions is critical to addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. Project AIM (Adult Identity Mentoring) is an innovative, evidence-based, youth development intervention that is being evaluated for the first time in Botswana through a 3-year (2015-2017), 50-school cluster randomized controlled trial, including testing for herpes simplex virus type 2 as a sexual activity biomarker. Conducting a trial of this magnitude requires the support and collaboration of government and community stakeholders. All school staff, including teachers, must be well informed about the study; dedicated staff placed at each school can help to improve school and community familiarity with the study, improve the information flow, and relieve some of the burden study activities places on schools. © 2013 American Public Health Association.

Keywords: adolescent; Botswana; child; clinical trial; community participation; controlled study; female; Herpes simplex virus 2; high risk behavior; HIV Infections; human; in service training; isolation and purification; male; multicenter study; organization and management; procedures; program evaluation; randomized controlled trial; sexual behavior; sexual education, Adolescent; Botswana; Child; Community Participation; Female; Herpesvirus 2, Human; HIV Infections; Humans; Inservice Training; Male; Program Evaluation; Risk-Taking; Sex Education; Sexual Behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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