| Title | Challenges, strategies, and lessons learned from a participatory community intervention study to promote female condoms among rural sex workers in Southern China. |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2010 |
| Authors | Weeks, Margaret R., Susu Liao, Fei Li, Jianghong Li, Jennifer Dunn, Bin He, Qiya He, Weiping Feng, and Yanhong Wang |
| Journal | AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pagination | 252-71 |
| Date Published | 2010 Jun |
| ISSN | 1943-2755 |
| Keywords | Adolescent, Adult, China, Community-Based Participatory Research, Community-Institutional Relations, Condoms, Female, Female, HIV Infections, Humans, Intervention Studies, Program Development, Prostitution, Rural Population, Women's Health, Young Adult |
| Abstract | China faces a rapidly emerging HIV epidemic and nationwide resurgence of sexually transmitted infections associated with a growing sex industry. Community empowerment and capacity building through community-based participatory research partnerships show promise for developing, testing, and refining multilevel interventions suited to the local context that are effective and appropriate to address these concerns. However, such efforts are fraught with challenges, both for community collaborators and for researchers. We have built an international team of scientists from Beijing and the United States and collaborating health policy makers, health educators, and care providers from Hainan and Guangxi Province Centers for Disease Prevention and Control and the local counties and towns where we are conducting our study. This team is in the process of testing a community-wide, multilevel intervention to promote female condoms and other HIV prevention within sex-work establishments. This article presents lessons learned from our experiences in the first two study sites of this intervention trial. |
| DOI | 10.1521/aeap.2010.22.3.252 |
| Alternate Journal | AIDS Educ Prev |
