Investing in Communities Achieves Results : Findings from an Evaluation of Community Responses to HIV and AIDS

Rodriguez-Garcí ; a, Rosalí ; a ; Bonnel, René ; Wilson, David ; N'Jie, N'Della

Washington, DC:World Bank

关键词: ABSTINENCE;    ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES;    ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME;    ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME;    ADHERENCE TO TREATMENT;   

DOI  :  10.1596/978-0-8213-9741-1
RP-ID  :  74275

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The overview summarizes the evaluationof community responses (15 studies, including 11 evaluationscarried out in 8 countries). It presents the evaluationquestions, the methodology, the key results achieved bycommunity responses along the continuum of prevention,treatment, care and support, and the resulting policy andprogrammatic implications. Before the scale-up of theinternational response to the AIDS pandemic, communityresponses in developing countries played a crucial role inproviding services and care for those affected. This studyis the first comprehensive, mixed-method evaluation of theimpact of that response. The evaluation finds that communityresponse can be effective at increasing knowledge of HIV,promoting social empowerment, increasing access to and useof HIV services, and even decreasing HIV incidence, allthrough the effective mobilization of limited resources. Byeffectively engaging with this powerful community structure,future HIV and AIDS programs can ensure that communitiescontinue to contribute to the global response to HIV and AIDS.