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CBPR to Prevent HIV within Racial/Ethnic, Sexual, and Gender Minority Communities: Successes with Long-Term Sustainability

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HIV disproportionately affects racial/ethnic, sexual, and gender minority and economically disadvantaged communities. Our community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to HIV prevention has more than a decade-long history of sustained success. Our CBPR partnership comprises scientists and lay-experts from academic, government, and nongovernment institutions, including community-based organizations and businesses, and the community at large. We focus on developing, implementing, and evaluating prevention interventions to reduce HIV and sexually transmitted infections and increase access to health services among immigrant Latinos, including Latino men and women; and African-American/black, Latino, and white gay and bisexual men, men who have sex with men, and transgender persons. In this chapter, we identify and describe our partnership’s underlying values; predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors that influence and sustain our approach to CBPR; and our own real-world challenges to engagement, partnership, and CBPR.

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  1. Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Blvd., 27157, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

    Scott D. Rhodes PhD, MPH, Lilli Mann MPH, Jorge Alonzo JD, Mario Downs, Claire Abraham, Cindy Miller & Eunyoung Song PhD

  2. Triad Health Project, 801 Summitt Avenue, 27405, Greensboro, NC, USA

    Jason Stowers

  3. Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1700 Martin Luther King Blvd., CB#7426, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7426, USA

    Barry Ramsey

  4. El Pueblo, Inc., 2321 Crabtree Boulevard, Suite 105, 27604, NC, Raleigh, USA

    Florence M. Simán MPH

  5. Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, 30322, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Aaron T. Vissman PhD(c), MPH

  6. Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 360 Rosenau Hall Campus Box 7440, 27599, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Eugenia Eng DrPH, MPH

  7. Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Blvd., 27157, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

    Beth A. Reboussin PhD

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Rhodes, S. et al. (2014). CBPR to Prevent HIV within Racial/Ethnic, Sexual, and Gender Minority Communities: Successes with Long-Term Sustainability. In: Rhodes, S. (eds) Innovations in HIV Prevention Research and Practice through Community Engagement. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0900-1_7

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