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Times and places: Process evaluation of a peer-led HIV prevention intervention. Subst Use Misuse 2006;41(5):669-90

Date

04/11/2006

Pubmed ID

16603454

DOI

10.1080/10826080500411403

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-33645779748 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   39 Citations

Abstract

Here we present results from a process evaluation of a peer-led HIV prevention intervention. The Risk Avoidance Partnership, conducted from 2001 to 2005, trained active drug users to be peer health advocates (PHAs) to provide harm reduction materials and information to their peers. Results indicate that PHAs actively conducted harm reduction outreach both when partnered with staff and on their own time. Although PHAs conducted most of their outreach in public locations, they also provided drug users with harm reduction materials at critical moments in places where HIV risky behaviors were likely to occur. PHAs were credible and trusted sources of information to their drug-using peers who sought PHAs out for HIV prevention materials. Process evaluations of successful HIV prevention interventions are necessary to understand how and why such interventions work for further intervention refinement.

Author List

Dickson-Gomez J, Weeks M, Martinez M, Convey M

Author

Julia Dickson-Gomez PhD Professor in the Institute for Health and Equity department at Medical College of Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Adult
Female
HIV Infections
Harm Reduction
Humans
Interviews as Topic
Male
Middle Aged
Peer Group
Program Evaluation
Substance-Related Disorders
United States