AEGiS-06IAC: Evolving rural, AIDS education program: an assessment.

6th International AIDS Conference


San Francisco, California, USA — June 20-23, 1990

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Evolving rural, AIDS education program: an assessment.

Int Conf AIDS 1990 Jun 20-23; 6:352 (abstract no. Th.D.905)
Ostergren W, Meiger C; Life Planning/Health Services, Dallas, Texas, USA

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this paper is to track a rural minority, AIDS education program through its 3 stage evolution and assess the efficacy of each stage.

METHODS: The program was initiated by a perceptive dermatologist at the onset of the AIDS epidemic. His efforts which created Stage 1 through creation of an Ad Hoc Committee of the county medical society are chronicled. Stage 2 was the creation of a CDC funded State Health Department authorized Program Materials Review Panel by a voluntary not-for-profit family planning agency with a health center in the community. Stage 3 are the multiple organizations created through the Program Materials Review Panel. Each stage is evaluated by statistical analysis, in-depth interviews of principles and survey results.

RESULTS: Evaluation of Stage 1 shows a heightened involvement by 30 physicians enabled the program to enter the school systems from 5th grade to junior college and the county jail. Stage 2 creates the evaluation tools to determine present and future evaluation as the education programs are put in place in the more traditional social service agencies. Stage 3 is documented as the refinement of approaches to meet high-risk populations is increased.

CONCLUSION: Each stage was important and involved different segments of the population (i.e., junior college, hospital, jail, housing authority). Each stage was necessary to be effective. The approach has been replicated in other communities.

Keywords: AEGIS, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.), Program Evaluation, Evaluation Studies, Ethnic Groups, Prisons, Data Collection, Schools, prevention & control, ICA6KWDaegis,acquiredimmunodeficiencysyndrome,centersfordiseasecontrolandprevention(uKWDsKWD),programevaluation,evaluationstudies,ethnicgroups,prisons,datacollection,schools,prevention&control,ica6

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