Identifying gaps in HIV prevention services.
Identifying gaps in HIV prevention services.
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找出艾滋病毒预防服务方面的差距。
DOI：
10.1080/19371910903240761
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Leone,PeterA
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作者：
Torrone,ElizabethA;Levandowski,BrookeA;Thomas,JamesC;Isler,MalikaRoman;Leone,PeterA
人类免疫缺陷病毒(HIV)预防计划和机构正在减少资源，以应对日益增长的感染率。确定艾滋病毒预防服务中的差距有助于为预防资金和项目政策提供信息。为了描述美国南部一个州的艾滋病毒预防需求，我们在北卡罗来纳州的一些县进行了面对面的采访，采访了预防机构和社区中其他人认为是社区艾滋病毒预防服务的“有影响力的告密者”。我们以县为分析单位(n=10)，通过社区特征调查差距的差异，如性传播疾病发病率的差异。农村县经常报告缺乏方案和服务方案协调/合作方面的问题。最常报告的满足艾滋病毒高危人群需求的障碍是资金问题，其次是污名问题。这项研究的结果可以让当地和地区的规划者了解如何有效地针对预防项目，包括旨在减少艾滋病毒等性传播疾病的种族和地理差异的项目。
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention programs and agencies are fighting growing rates of infection with decreasing resources. Identification of gaps in HIV prevention services can help inform prevention funding and program policies. To describe HIV prevention needs in a southern U.S. state, we conducted face-to-face interviews with prevention agencies and persons considered by others in their community to be “influential informants” of the community's HIV prevention services in a sample of counties in North Carolina. Using county as the unit of analysis (n= 10), we investigated differences in gaps by community characteristics, such as disparities in sexually transmitted disease rates. Lack of programs and problems with service program coordination/cooperation were reported frequently by rural counties. The most commonly reported barrier to meeting the needs of persons at risk for HIV was funding, followed by stigma. Findings from this study can inform local and regional planners on how to efficiently target prevention programs, including programs aimed at reducing racial and geographic disparities in sexually transmitted diseases, such as HIV.