The development and implementation of an innovative community-based intervention to strengthen community capacity for HIV prevention and care among Canadians of African Caribbean and Black (ACB) women in Ontario: a research protocol
African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) women are overrepresented among new HIV diagnoses due to social and structural factors. This study seeks to create, implement, and evaluate a community-based peer-led intervention to improve access to HIV prevention and care for ACB women in Canada. This multisite...
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| author | Josephine Etowa Notisha Massaquoi Francisca Omorodion Danielle Brown-Shreves Ilene Hyman Akalewold Gebremeskel Hugues Loemba Bishwajit Ghose Egbe Etowa Jennifer Rayner Charles Dabone Lounanjio Brown O’Sullivan Azeeza Sule Joseph Kiirya Sanni Yaya Wangari Tharao Haoua Inoua Angela Kaida Apondi Odhiambo Clinton Beckford |
| author_facet | Josephine Etowa Notisha Massaquoi Francisca Omorodion Danielle Brown-Shreves Ilene Hyman Akalewold Gebremeskel Hugues Loemba Bishwajit Ghose Egbe Etowa Jennifer Rayner Charles Dabone Lounanjio Brown O’Sullivan Azeeza Sule Joseph Kiirya Sanni Yaya Wangari Tharao Haoua Inoua Angela Kaida Apondi Odhiambo Clinton Beckford |
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| description | African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) women are overrepresented among new HIV diagnoses due to social and structural factors. This study seeks to create, implement, and evaluate a community-based peer-led intervention to improve access to HIV prevention and care for ACB women in Canada. This multisite, five-year project, using community-based participatory research, implementation science and evaluation frameworks, will be implemented in five non-iterative phases. Phase 1: Community and partner engagement; Phase 2: Critical health and racial literacy training curriculum and HIV resource development; Phase 3: Implementation research with first cohort of trained HIV Peer Equity Navigators [PENs] in three sites; Phase 4: Training of second cohort of HIV PENs and program implementation of HIV PEN intervention across Ontario; and Phase 5: Evaluation, knowledge sharing and plans for national scale up. We will use a mixed methods approach, including quantitative and qualitative data, such as surveys and qualitative interviews, to analyze and identify implementation scenarios, changes in improving access, and ensuring equity to HIV prevention and care for ACB women in Ontario, Canada. Evidence on the effectiveness of this innovative, peer-led intervention will be used to inform policies and practice related to HIV prevention and care for ACB women in Canada. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c6fe13355b7d4ea89f41feac7b5573642025-01-27T18:46:33ZengTaylor & Francis GroupGlobal Public Health1744-16921744-17062025-12-0120110.1080/17441692.2024.2436425The development and implementation of an innovative community-based intervention to strengthen community capacity for HIV prevention and care among Canadians of African Caribbean and Black (ACB) women in Ontario: a research protocolJosephine Etowa0Notisha Massaquoi1Francisca Omorodion2Danielle Brown-Shreves3Ilene Hyman4Akalewold Gebremeskel5Hugues Loemba6Bishwajit Ghose7Egbe Etowa8Jennifer Rayner9Charles Dabone10Lounanjio Brown O’Sullivan11Azeeza Sule12Joseph Kiirya13Sanni Yaya14Wangari Tharao15Haoua Inoua16Angela Kaida17Apondi Odhiambo18Clinton Beckford19School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, CanadaHealth and Society, Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, CanadaDepartment of Sociology and Criminology, Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Windsor, Windsor, CanadaUniversity of Ottawa & Queens’s University, Ottawa, CanadaDalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaSchool of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, CanadaFaculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, & Clinician at Montfort Hospital (Ottawa)/Hôpital Montfort (Ottawa), Ottawa, CanadaSchool of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, CanadaAfrican and Caribbean Council for HIV/AIDS in Ontario, Toronto, CanadaAlliance for Healthier Communities (Toronto) /Alliance pour des communautés en santé (Toronto), Toronto, CanadaCanadians of African Descent Health Organization, Ottawa, CanadaAfrican and Caribbean Council for HIV/AIDS in Ontario, Toronto, CanadaSomerset West Community Health Centre, Ottawa, CanadaRiver Jordan Ministry, Ottawa, CanadaGlobal and International Studies Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Ottawa/Université d’Ottawa, Ottawa, CanadaWomen’s Health in Women’s Hands (Toronto), Toronto, CanadaAIDS Committee of Ottawa, Ottawa, CanadaCommunity Health and Epidemiology Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, B.C.), Burnaby, CanadaDalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaOffice of Vice President, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, University of Windsor (Ontario), Windsor, CanadaAfrican, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) women are overrepresented among new HIV diagnoses due to social and structural factors. This study seeks to create, implement, and evaluate a community-based peer-led intervention to improve access to HIV prevention and care for ACB women in Canada. This multisite, five-year project, using community-based participatory research, implementation science and evaluation frameworks, will be implemented in five non-iterative phases. Phase 1: Community and partner engagement; Phase 2: Critical health and racial literacy training curriculum and HIV resource development; Phase 3: Implementation research with first cohort of trained HIV Peer Equity Navigators [PENs] in three sites; Phase 4: Training of second cohort of HIV PENs and program implementation of HIV PEN intervention across Ontario; and Phase 5: Evaluation, knowledge sharing and plans for national scale up. We will use a mixed methods approach, including quantitative and qualitative data, such as surveys and qualitative interviews, to analyze and identify implementation scenarios, changes in improving access, and ensuring equity to HIV prevention and care for ACB women in Ontario, Canada. Evidence on the effectiveness of this innovative, peer-led intervention will be used to inform policies and practice related to HIV prevention and care for ACB women in Canada.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17441692.2024.2436425African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) womenHIV prevention and carePeer Equity Navigators [PENs]community-based participatory researchimplementation science and evaluation frameworksSDG 3: Good health and well-being |
| spellingShingle | Josephine Etowa Notisha Massaquoi Francisca Omorodion Danielle Brown-Shreves Ilene Hyman Akalewold Gebremeskel Hugues Loemba Bishwajit Ghose Egbe Etowa Jennifer Rayner Charles Dabone Lounanjio Brown O’Sullivan Azeeza Sule Joseph Kiirya Sanni Yaya Wangari Tharao Haoua Inoua Angela Kaida Apondi Odhiambo Clinton Beckford The development and implementation of an innovative community-based intervention to strengthen community capacity for HIV prevention and care among Canadians of African Caribbean and Black (ACB) women in Ontario: a research protocol Global Public Health African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) women HIV prevention and care Peer Equity Navigators [PENs] community-based participatory research implementation science and evaluation frameworks SDG 3: Good health and well-being |
| title | The development and implementation of an innovative community-based intervention to strengthen community capacity for HIV prevention and care among Canadians of African Caribbean and Black (ACB) women in Ontario: a research protocol |
| title_full | The development and implementation of an innovative community-based intervention to strengthen community capacity for HIV prevention and care among Canadians of African Caribbean and Black (ACB) women in Ontario: a research protocol |
| title_fullStr | The development and implementation of an innovative community-based intervention to strengthen community capacity for HIV prevention and care among Canadians of African Caribbean and Black (ACB) women in Ontario: a research protocol |
| title_full_unstemmed | The development and implementation of an innovative community-based intervention to strengthen community capacity for HIV prevention and care among Canadians of African Caribbean and Black (ACB) women in Ontario: a research protocol |
| title_short | The development and implementation of an innovative community-based intervention to strengthen community capacity for HIV prevention and care among Canadians of African Caribbean and Black (ACB) women in Ontario: a research protocol |
| title_sort | development and implementation of an innovative community based intervention to strengthen community capacity for hiv prevention and care among canadians of african caribbean and black acb women in ontario a research protocol |
| topic | African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) women HIV prevention and care Peer Equity Navigators [PENs] community-based participatory research implementation science and evaluation frameworks SDG 3: Good health and well-being |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17441692.2024.2436425 |
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