Documentation of HIV prevention research and programmatic learnings from India: selected peer-reviewed journal articles and key highlights: 2013-2014
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Community mobilization often requires greater time and resource investments than typical interventions, yet few evaluations exist to justify these investments. We evaluated the added benefit of community mobilization on HIV prevention outcomes among female sex workers (FSWs) using a composite measure of volunteer participation in program committees by FSWs. After adjusting for treatment propensity, we used multilevel structural equation modeling (MSEM) to test our program theory. We hypothesized that stronger community mobilization would be associated with increased levels of consistent condomuse andwith increased levels of perceived fairness, mediated by psychosocial processes. Community mobilization had an indirect effect on consistent condomusemediated through social cohesion and an indirect effect on perceived fairness mediated by collective efficacy. Our results suggest higher levels of community mobilization help improve condomuse and reduce perceived discrimination beyond the effects of the core HIV intervention program. We recommend further testing of this model.Resumen Movilización de comunidad requiere más tiempo e inversión de recursos que una tı́pica intervención, pero muy pocas evaluaciones existen para justificar estas inversiones. Se evaluó el beneficio de movilización de comunidad en la prevención de VIH en sexoservidoras usando un indicador compuesto de participación de voluntarios en comités de programa por sexoservidoras. Después de ajustar por propensión de tratamiento, se usó una ecuación de múltiple niveles estructural para probar nuestra teorı́a de programa. Nuestra hipótesis es que una movilización de comunidad más fuerte estuviese asociada con un nivel aumentado de uso de condones consistente con niveles aumentados de imparcialidad percibida, mediada por procesos psicosociales. Movilización de comunidad tuvo un efecto indirecto en el uso de condones consistente mediado por cohesión social y un efecto indirecto en la percibida imparcial mediado por eficacia colectiva. Nuestros resultados sugieren que niveles elevados de movilización de comunidad ayudan a mejorar uso de condones y reducir discriminación percibida más allá de los efectos de la intervención del programa de VIH. Recomendamos pruebas adicionales de este modelo.
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