A model for community representation and participation in HIV prevention trials among women who engage in transactional sex in Africa

• Published in: AIDS care Vol. 20; no. 9; pp. 1039 - 1049
• Main Authors: Shagi, Charles, Vallely, Andrew, Kasindi, Stella, Chiduo, Betty, Desmond, Nicola, Soteli, Selephina, Kavit, Natujwa, Vallely, Lisa, Lees, Shelley, Hayes, Richard, Ross, David, on behalf of the Microbicides Development Programme
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Taylor & Francis Group 01.10.2008; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Ltd; Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Anti-Infective Agents, Local - therapeutic use; At risk; Biological and medical sciences; Black people; Citizen participation; clinical trial; Clinical trials; Clinical Trials, Phase III as Topic; Communication; Community; Community involvement; Community Participation; Developing countries; Disease prevention; Feasibility Studies; Female; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Health Promotion - methods; HIV; HIV Infections - prevention & control; HIV Infections - transmission; HIV-1; Hotels; Human immunodeficiency virus; Human viral diseases; Humans; Infectious diseases; LDCs; Liaison; Medical research; Medical sciences; Medical sociology; Medical treatment; Mental health; microbicide; Mobile Health Units - organization & administration; Mwanza City; participatory research; Prevention; Prevention. Health policy. Planification; Preventive programmes; Prostitution; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Reproductive health; Researcher-Subject Relations; Sex Work - ethnology; Sex Work - psychology; Sexual behavior; Sexual health; Sexually transmitted diseases; Sexually Transmitted Diseases - prevention & control; Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry; STD; Survey data; Tanzania; Viral diseases; Viral diseases of the lymphoid tissue and the blood. Aids; Women; Africa; Tanzania; Mwanza Tanzania; Tanzania, Mwanza; Social environment; Human; Immunopathology; Sanitary program; Retroviridae; Community participation; AIDS; Immune deficiency; Lentivirus; Infection; Virus; Prevention; Partnership; Viral disease; Clinical trial; Feasibility; Field inquiry; Human immunodeficiency virus; Woman; Microbicidal effect; Public health; Life Sciences

Actively engaging communities in effective partnerships for the design and implementation of HIV prevention research is vital to the successful conduct of ethically robust, locally-appropriate clinical trials in developing countries. This is especially true in vulnerable at-risk sub-populations, whe...