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Fourth Annual CAPS Conference: Broadening the HIV Prevention Landscape April 16, 2004

Broadening our vision of and for HIV/AIDS programming and research Darrell P. Wheeler, Ph.D., M.P.H. Hunter College School of Social Work. Fourth Annual CAPS Conference: Broadening the HIV Prevention Landscape April 16, 2004. The historical path of HIV/AIDS programming and research. Trauma

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Fourth Annual CAPS Conference: Broadening the HIV Prevention Landscape April 16, 2004

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  1. Broadening our vision of and for HIV/AIDS programming and researchDarrell P. Wheeler, Ph.D., M.P.H.Hunter College School of Social Work Fourth Annual CAPS Conference: Broadening the HIV Prevention Landscape April 16, 2004 dpwheeler

  2. The historical path of HIV/AIDS programming and research • Trauma • Advocacy • Activism • Action • Research • Evaluation • Efficacy • Translation and dissemination • Addressing new needs and traumas dpwheeler

  3. The context of research in HIV • Expert in it’s orientation. • Historically excluded participation by “certain” community members. • Compartmentalizes the subject into units of analyses. • Focuses on pathologies. • Paternalistic. dpwheeler

  4. The context of programming in HIV • It’s professional. • It’s conditional (ie., you may have the resources to do the program if…). • Often uses foreign concepts, tools and methods. • “Front’s” community members. dpwheeler

  5. HIV/AIDS and programming have brought us many important lessons. • Understanding modes of transmission and infection. • Understanding elements of behavior in relation to transmission and infection. • Produced numerous service provider systems. • Produced thousands of papers, articles and reports. dpwheeler

  6. …it hasn’t brought us an end to the epidemic! dpwheeler

  7. Thinking outside of the historical context to broaden the HIV prevention landscape dpwheeler

  8. Elements of a research agenda forgotten • Social justice. • Community stabilization. • Economic justice. • Context and time. • Diversifying the body of researchers. • Examining how and why the body of researchers looks as it does. • Political justice and advocacy • Our time in the Bushes dpwheeler

  9. Elements of a research agenda forgotten (continued) • Identifying values and variables of interest to the target population. • Keeping research in the context of the person’s life. • Holding research and researchers accountable to providing meaningful results for community members. dpwheeler

  10. And if we do this??? dpwheeler

  11. We can produce desired changeHousing Works the example. • Opportunities for self-actualization. • Employment and employment opportunities. • Greater sense of mutuality and connectedness. • Structural challenges and structural changes. • Stabilized lives and stabilized communities. dpwheeler

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