HIV/AIDS prevention for migrants and ethnic minorities: three phases of evaluation.

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Serval ID
serval:BIB_11293
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
HIV/AIDS prevention for migrants and ethnic minorities: three phases of evaluation.
Journal
Social Science and Medicine
Author(s)
Haour-Knipe M., Fleury F., Dubois-Arber F.
ISSN
0277-9536 (Print)
ISSN-L
0277-9536
Publication state
Published
Issued date
1999
Volume
49
Number
10
Pages
1357-1372
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
There are now a number of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes for migrant and ethnic minority communities throughout the world, both 'top down' programmes organised, for example, by governments and large NGOs, and 'bottom up' programmes, organised by migrant groups themselves. Evaluation of such programmes, however, is in most cases sorely lacking. The Swiss 'Migrants Project' is, to the authors' knowledge, the only such programme to have been systematically accompanied by evaluation throughout. This paper describes three phases of evaluation of the Migrants Project (exploratory studies, process, and outcome evaluations). The evaluations have highlighted the need for culturally and linguistically appropriate prevention efforts which use already-existing community structures, as well as the need to identify and train people from within communities to carry out local prevention efforts. Outcome evaluation has shown that: a government sponsored HIV/AIDS prevention programme can meet with acceptance by migrant communities; considerable engagement in prevention activities can be mobilised; and AIDS prevention among such communities can be effective. Such efforts can create levels of sensitivity to HIV issues and of protective behaviour that are equal to those of the host country population. The strategy adopted by the programme is thus supported. Key elements are to avoid potential for stigmatising by: (1) placing HIV/AIDS prevention efforts for migrant populations within an overall national HIV/AIDS prevention strategy; (2) informing and sensitising general populations within migrant communities before initiating more targeted prevention with migrant IDUs, MSM, and CSWs; (3) encouraging, facilitating and guiding health promotion efforts which emerge from within migrant communities themselves.
Keywords
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/prevention & control, HIV Infections/prevention & control, Humans, Minority Groups, Program Evaluation/methods, Switzerland, Transients and Migrants
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Web of science
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