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Project Accept is an HIV prevention trial in which 34 communities in Africa (in South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe) and 14 communities in Thailand are being randomized to receive either a community-based HIV voluntary counseling and testing (CBVCT) intervention plus standard clinic-based VCT (SVCT), or SVCT alone. The CBVCT intervention has three major strategies: (1) to make VCT more available in community settings; (2) to engage the community through outreach; and (3) to provide post-test support. These strategies are designed to change community norms and reduce risk for HIV infection among all community members, irrespective of whether they participated directly in the intervention. (posted 7/10)

The HIV InSite website provides curricula, training guides, participant and interventionist manuals, evaluation forms, logs, worksheets, guidelines, etc for the following:

• Protocol Summary
• Community Preparedness
• Community Mobilization
• Community-based Voluntary Counseling & Testing
• Post-test Support Services
• Utilization

The tools, templates and resources in this toolkit were compiled and developed by the CBR team at Access Alliance based on half a decade of implementing CBR projects. The CBR team at Access Alliance realized early on that having solid CBR training and tools was crucial to the success of its CBR projects. Thus, the team made it a priority to build CBR training and tools. In 2006, we created a part-time in-house researcher trainer position whose task was to develop innovative CBR training materials and tools and to deliver CBR training to peer researchers and other partners as per the need of our CBR projects. We also hired a consultant from the Catalyst Centre (Matthew Adams) to ground our CBR training and tools in a popular education framework.

Resources for exploring promising approaches to promote community health and development.

These instruments were used to measure the effectiveness of the multisite INSPIRE Study (known as VOICE in San Francisco) and cover medication use and adherence, health care utilization, substance abuse, injection behavior, sexual behavior, partner relationships, and more. Instruments:

Scoring: N/A Reliability and/or validity: Purcell DW, Metsch LR, Latka M, Santibanez S, Gómez CA, Eldred L, Latkin CA, INSPIRE Study Group. Interventions for seropositive injectors—research and evaluation: an integrated behavioral intervention with HIV-positive injection drug users to address medical care, adherence, and risk reduction. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2004 Oct 1;37 Suppl 2:S110–8.