Factors affecting the delivery of HIV/AIDS prevention programs by community-based organizations.
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.
Chillag
Kata
K
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
Bartholow
Kelly
K
Cordeiro
Janna
J
Swanson
Sue
S
Patterson
Jocelyn
J
Stebbins
Selby
S
Woodside
Carol
C
Sy
Francisco
F
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