Multisite Evaluation of the In Community Spirit Program - Prevention of HIV/AIDS for Native/American Indian and Alaska Native Women Living in Rural and Frontier Indian Country
Multisite Evaluation of the
In Community Spirit Program - Prevention of HIV/AIDS for
Native/American Indian and Alaska Native Women Living in Rural and
Frontier Indian Country
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The In Community Spirit Program is
designed to increase HIV prevention knowledge and reduce the risk
of contracting HIV among American Indian and Alaska Native women.
The program has three components (prevention education, community
awareness, and capacity building) and is implemented through six
cooperative agreements. The evaluation of the In Community Spirit
Program is multi-component, culturally competent, and multi-site.
The evaluation includes key informant interviews with program staff
and service providers to understand the facilitators and barriers
of HIV prevention education, outreach and awareness, and capacity
building across grantee programs as well as sustainability efforts
related to these activities. The evaluation also includes surveys
to be administered at pre, post, and 3 month follow up of an
adapted, gender-based HIV prevention curriculum. The surveys
examine women's knowledge, attitudes, awareness, and behaviors
related to HIV and its prevention as well as stigma related to HIV
testing and knowledge of testing sites. Because of the lack of
information on evidence based practices for American Indian and
Alaska Native women, this evaluation provides an opportunity to
collect meaningful data on adapting existing evidence based
practices to this population. Data gathered through the evaluation
will be used to understand the extent to which the In Community
Spirit Program has been able to achieve its goals and will enrich
understandings of the way in which innovative programs impact
quality and access to HIV prevention and intervention services for
American Indian and Alaska Native women.
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USC 241 Name of Law: Section 301 Public Health Services Act
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