Implementing a large-scale testing-for-tickets intervention to impact HIV awareness and testing uptake in 3 large urban jurisdictions: successes, challenges and lessons learned
Abstract
Established in 2007, with the goal of raising AIDS/HIV awareness in the Houston/Harris County community through education and HIV screening of youth (ages 15-35), the Hip Hop for Houston (now Houston Hits Home) intervention... [ view full abstract ]
Established in 2007, with the goal of raising AIDS/HIV awareness in the Houston/Harris County community through education and HIV screening of youth (ages 15-35), the Hip Hop for Houston (now Houston Hits Home) intervention offers free and exclusive Hip Hop concert tickets for participants that receive HIV screening and attend a one-hour health educational session. To date, under the leadership of the Houston Department of Health and Human Services and in partnership with various community agencies and partners, Houston Hits Home has reached more than 50,000 youth and now includes a multiplicity of clinical and non-clinical preventive screening and services.
In 2011, given similar concerns and recognizing the success and impact of Houston’s initiative, the Urban Coalition for HIV/AIDS Prevention Services (UCHAPS) initiated and organized a peer-to-peer technical assistance (TA) exchange between Houston’s Department of Health and Human Services and community members from Philadelphia and Chicago. This TA-exchange allowed the UCHAPS-sponsored visitors an opportunity to work directly alongside and learn step-by-step how Hip Hop for Houston was implemented and how it might be adapted or modified and put into action in each home city.
Today, four years after that TA-exchange, both Philadelphia (Hip Hop for Philly) and Chicago (Step Up Get Tested) have implemented successful large scale testing events within their own jurisdictions and while each shares similarities, each has also been adapted and modified to ensure maximum impact for those at greatest need of HIV prevention education and testing.
Program implementation from each initiative will be presented and include: conducting large community screening events, including incident command structures, protocols for safety and security; ways to mobilize the community around large scale testing events including engagement of and successful collaboration with both traditional and non-traditional partners; and incorporating other public health and prevention services into large scale testing events.
Authors
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Jennifer Chapman
(Urban Coalition for HIV/AIDS Prevention Services (UCHAPS))
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Matty Lehman
(The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia)
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Peter McLoyd
(Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center)
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Marlene McNeese
(Houston Department of Health & Human Services)
Topic Areas
I. Research Collaborations 1.1 Scientific collaborations in geography and urban health 1.2 , VI. Research and action 6.1 Collaboration; interaction of researchers; stakeholders 6.2 S
Session
EFA-O-04 » Evidence for Action in Policy and Programs (08:00 - Monday, 4th April, TBA)
Paper
CHAPMAN_HipHopAbstract.docx
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