title: Factors affecting the delivery of HIV/AIDS prevention programs by community-based organizations.
abstract: Community based organizations (CBOs) play a frontline role in HIV/AIDS prevention activities. CBOs face formidable challenges to effective delivery of HIV prevention services including client characteristics such as homelessness and CBO characteristics such as limited resources and staff turnover. Despite these obstacles, CBOs are generally well positioned to deliver services to specific high-risk populations because they understand their local communities and are connected to the groups they serve. [C1]This qualitative study illustrates that structural, sociocultural, organizational, and individual client factors both facilitate and act as barriers to delivery of HIV prevention services. These challenges and successes help identify critical technical assistance needs.
authors.affiliation: Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention-Epidemiology and Surveillance, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA. kchillag@cdc.gov
authors.forename: Kata
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chillag
authors.forename: Kelly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bartholow
authors.forename: Janna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cordeiro
authors.forename: Sue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Swanson
authors.forename: Jocelyn
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Patterson
authors.forename: Selby
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stebbins
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Woodside
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sy
mesh_terms: D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003256:Community Participation; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods