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“NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS :” The Intersection of Community Education and Study Recruitment. NOMAMPONDO BARNABAS Global Campaign for Microbicides, PATH, South Africa KATHERINE WEST SLEVIN Global Campaign for Microbicides, PATH, USA

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  1. “NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS :” The Intersection of Community Education and Study Recruitment NOMAMPONDO BARNABAS Global Campaign for Microbicides, PATH, South Africa KATHERINE WEST SLEVIN Global Campaign for Microbicides, PATH, USA STELLA KIRKENDALE, MPHFamily Health International, USA NEETHA MORAR South African Medical Research Council, South Africa

  2. BACKGROUND • The importance & benefits of community preparedness and education by prevention research sites has escalated • The Complexity of Two Masters: Community Education vsStudy Participants Recruitment • Ongoing debate within the Community Involvement Community of Practice (CoP)

  3. AIMS • To discuss the differences and commonalities between community education and study participant recruitment • To highlight the challenges and intersection of community &outreach staff with roles in recruitment and retention in trials and roles in community education

  4. METHODS : Perspectives collected via virtual and in-person discussions and exercises.

  5. INTERSECTIONS & DIFFERENCES

  6. CHALLENGES • Roles & responsibilities : site & network • Identify aims / impact • Limit of authority – messages for different audiences (also need for community educators to maintain some degree of neutrality) • Confidentiality

  7. PERSPECTIVES: TWO VIEWS

  8. INTERSECTION OF COMMUNITY EDUCATION & STUDY RECRUITMENT

  9. RECOMMENDATIONS • Recognition that community education (CE) supports research, recruitment and retention; Recruitment alone does not support research • Trial sites should develop clear goals, objectives and community engagement plans. • A clear community engagement plan that includes CE will help to sustain CE during trials • Roles, responsibilities and objectives of each have to be clearly defined • Adequate funding, training and support • Synergies / commonalities

  10. CONCLUSION • Study recruitment and community education intersect and are inherently related but have different objectives. As such, how to best serve these dual needs (or ‘masters’) must be clearly defined. • As we head into the next generation of HIV prevention clinical studies and contemplate the best use of resources for the field, it is vital that we: • acknowledge and address the potential challenges introduced by the desire to conduct effective, credible community education and the need to meet study recruitment/retention targets; and • learn from experiences of past and ongoing studies as we turn toward a new chapter of HIV prevention research.

  11. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Morenike Ukpong, New HIV Vaccine and Microbicide Advocacy Society Londiwe Luthuli, CAPRISA Charles Kilel, WRP Kericho All members of the Community Involvement Community of Practice (CoP) for sharing their insights and experiences

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