CBPR to prevent HIV within racial/ethnic, sexual, and gender minority communities: Successes with long-term sustainability

Abstract

HIV disproportionately affects racial/ethnic, sexual, and gender minority and economically disadvantaged communities. Our community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to HIV prevention has more than a decade-long history of sustained success. Our CBPR partnership comprises scientists and lay-experts from academic, government, and nongovernment institutions, including community-based organizations and businesses, and the community at large. We focus on developing, implementing, and evaluating prevention interventions to reduce HIV and sexually transmitted infections and increase access to health services among immigrant Latinos, including Latino men and women; and African-American/black, Latino, and white gay and bisexual men, men who have sex with men, and transgender persons. In this chapter, we identify and describe our partnership’s underlying values; predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors that influence and sustain our approach to CBPR; and our own real-world challenges to engagement, partnership, and CBPR.