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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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.
US Code:
42 USC 241
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