Organizing Asian Pacific Islanders in an urban community to reduce HIV risk: a case study
Loue, S.; Lloyd, L.S.; Phoombour, E.
Aids Education and Prevention Official Publication of the International Society for Aids Education 8(5): 381-393
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0899-9546 PMID: 8911566 Document Number: 459038
A case study is prevented of community organization efforts within the Asian Pacific Islander communities of San Diego County to reduce the risk of HIV transmission. A five-phase process was used to implement the strategies of locality development, social planning, and social action: community analysis, programme design and initiation, programme implementation, programme maintenance and consolidation, and programme reassessment. An evaluation of the process indicates that there were increases over time in the project's activities as well as in the levels of interagency connectedness. This is one of the few reported efforts to organize Asian Pacific Islander groups to address HIV transmission. Key elements that led to the successful organization of the original project into a tax-exempt nonprofit entity (the Asian Pacific Islander Community AIDS Project) were emphasis on community ownership, reliance on group consensus, use of "gate-keepers" to access communities, simultaneous multilevel programming, and service to the community as a "coordinating" entity.