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Evaluating an HIV and AIDS Community Training Partnership Program in Five Diamond Mining Communities in South Africa
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Rispel, L. C.; Peltzer, K.; Nkomo, N.; Molomo, B. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2010
In 2006, De Beers Consolidated Diamond Mines in South Africa entered into a partnership, with the Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communications to implement an HIV and AIDS Community Training Partnership Program (CTPP), initially in five diamond mining areas in three provinces of South Africa. The aim of CTPP was to improve HIV…
Descriptors: Communicable Diseases, Program Implementation, Foreign Countries, Corporations
Peer-Led Interventions to Reduce HIV Risk of Youth: A Review
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Maticka-Tyndale, Eleanor; Barnett, Jessica Penwell – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2010
One approach in HIV prevention programming targeting youth is to use peer leaders in what is referred to as peer education programming. This paper critically reviews and synthesizes the results and lessons learned from 24 evaluated peer-led programs with an HIV/AIDS risk reduction component that target youth in the communities where they live and…
Descriptors: Synthesis, Program Evaluation, Youth, Low Income
Changing Needle Practices in Community Outreach and Methadone Treatment.
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Wechsberg, Wendee M.; And Others – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1994
This pretest/posttest study used two samples of injecting drug users (184 from street outreach and 103 from a methadone program) to assess drug use and human immunodeficiency virus risk practices. The improvement in risk behaviors at posttest suggests that intervention programs were agents of change. (SLD)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Behavior Change, Change Agents, Community Programs