title: Family-based HIV prevention and intervention services for youth living in poverty-affected contexts: the CHAMP model of collaborative, evidence-informed programme development.
abstract: Family-based interventions with children who are affected by HIV and AIDS are not well established. The Collaborative HIV Prevention and Adolescent Mental Health Program (CHAMP) represents one of the few evidence-based interventions tested in low-income contexts in the US, Caribbean and South Africa. This paper provides a description of the theoretical and empirical bases of the development and implementation of CHAMP in two of these countries, the US and South Africa. In addition, with the advent of increasing numbers of children infected with HIV surviving into adolescence and young adulthood, a CHAMP+ family-based intervention, using the founding principles of CHAMP, has been developed to mitigate the risk influences associated with being HIV positive.
authors.affiliation: Child, Youth, Family & Social Development Research Programme, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa. abhana@hsrc.ac.za
authors.forename: Arvin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bhana
authors.forename: Mary M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: McKay
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mellins
authors.forename: Inge
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Petersen
authors.forename: Carl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bell
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D005190:Family; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D011204:Poverty Areas; D012307:Risk Factors