title: Adapting and disseminating a community-collaborative, evidence-based HIV/AIDS prevention programme: Lessons from the history of CHAMP.
abstract: In recent years, calls for the scaling-up, or more broad dissemination of evidence-based HIV prevention programmes, have increased. This paper responds to the call for increasing applicable knowledge about programme dissemination by reviewing the history of a major evidence-based human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention and mental health promotion programme that has been adapted successfully and pilot-tested across four settings - including two major cities, as well as in the United States, Trinidad and Tobago and South Africa - to date. This programme, entitled CHAMP (the Collaborative HIV Prevention & Adolescent Mental Health Project), is distinctive primarily for its emphasis on community collaboration and power-sharing, and also its incorporation of individual, family and community-level interventions. The history of programme development, including theoretical foundations and results across sites, is discussed with a particular emphasis on the implications of CHAMP'S dissemination thus far.
authors.affiliation: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sperber
authors.forename: Mary M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: McKay
authors.forename: Carl C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Bell
authors.forename: Inge
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Petersen
authors.forename: Arvin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bhana
authors.forename: Roberta
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Paikoff