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Broadening our vision of and for HIV/AIDS programming and research Darrell P. Wheeler, Ph.D., M.P.H. Hunter College School of Social Work. Fourth Annual CAPS Conference: Broadening the HIV Prevention Landscape April 16, 2004. The historical path of HIV/AIDS programming and research. Trauma
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Broadening our vision of and for HIV/AIDS programming and researchDarrell P. Wheeler, Ph.D., M.P.H.Hunter College School of Social Work Fourth Annual CAPS Conference: Broadening the HIV Prevention Landscape April 16, 2004 dpwheeler
The historical path of HIV/AIDS programming and research • Trauma • Advocacy • Activism • Action • Research • Evaluation • Efficacy • Translation and dissemination • Addressing new needs and traumas dpwheeler
The context of research in HIV • Expert in it’s orientation. • Historically excluded participation by “certain” community members. • Compartmentalizes the subject into units of analyses. • Focuses on pathologies. • Paternalistic. dpwheeler
The context of programming in HIV • It’s professional. • It’s conditional (ie., you may have the resources to do the program if…). • Often uses foreign concepts, tools and methods. • “Front’s” community members. dpwheeler
HIV/AIDS and programming have brought us many important lessons. • Understanding modes of transmission and infection. • Understanding elements of behavior in relation to transmission and infection. • Produced numerous service provider systems. • Produced thousands of papers, articles and reports. dpwheeler
Thinking outside of the historical context to broaden the HIV prevention landscape dpwheeler
Elements of a research agenda forgotten • Social justice. • Community stabilization. • Economic justice. • Context and time. • Diversifying the body of researchers. • Examining how and why the body of researchers looks as it does. • Political justice and advocacy • Our time in the Bushes dpwheeler
Elements of a research agenda forgotten (continued) • Identifying values and variables of interest to the target population. • Keeping research in the context of the person’s life. • Holding research and researchers accountable to providing meaningful results for community members. dpwheeler
And if we do this??? dpwheeler
We can produce desired changeHousing Works the example. • Opportunities for self-actualization. • Employment and employment opportunities. • Greater sense of mutuality and connectedness. • Structural challenges and structural changes. • Stabilized lives and stabilized communities. dpwheeler