title: Disparities in Community Readiness for HIV/AIDS prevention.
abstract: HIV and AIDS as a community(1) issue have not been dealt with extensively in the literature. One model that offers promise for development of effective prevention and intervention efforts is the Community Readiness Model, a nine-stage model that assesses the level of readiness of a community to develop and implement prevention programming. Data are presented from a Community Readiness assessment of 30 rural U.S. communities: 10 African American, 10 Mexican American, and 10 White non-Mexican American. Four to five key respondent interviews were conducted via telephone in each community using the Community Readiness Assessment protocol during 1999-2000. Limitations of the study and implications for prevention are discussed. This study was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
authors.affiliation: Applied Studies in American Ethnicity, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA. Barbara.Plested@colostate.edu
authors.forename: Barbara A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Plested
authors.forename: Ruth W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.forename: Pamela Jumper
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Thurman
mesh_terms: D019058:Community Networks; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D017146:Models, Organizational; D012424:Rural Population; D014481:United States