What is HIV RAP?

HIV RAP is a comprehensive library of research and prevention resources in a single online collection. Developed in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, these science-based resources have been vetted by independent expert scholars and tested by practitioners in the field. The eight distinct web centers feature education, training and research on HIV/AIDS, 34 effective HIV/AIDS prevention programs, and tools to culturally adapt, implement, assess and evaluate effective programs to suit your efforts.

Social science and health science libraries will find this single-point-of-entry, 24-hour-accessible collection invaluable to students, researchers and faculty of sociology, public health, or social work departments, schools of nursing and/or medicine, and to students doing course work or research projects on HIV/AIDS. The web centers are rich in multimedia content, and feature lecture materials, lesson plans, learning activities and discussion topics, downloadable powerpoint slides and hundreds of resources for reference and further reading.

Community-based ASOs, health clinics and practitioners will find HIV RAP to be a resource at every level of their organization. HIV RAP will help build staff and client knowledge about HIV/AIDs and how to prevent it. The 34 prevention programs included in HIV RAP were designed for a broad audience and contain everything needed to replicate effective interventions. Additional web centers provide tools to build and adapt culturally competent programs, implement and sustain effective programs, and evaluate and analyze program efforts. Special features include an online HIV risk assessment and customized learning resource (offered in English and Spanish), and an evaluation resource that allows easy online survey creation and data collection and analysis.

The library is organized into 8 topically focused web centers including:

  • PETRA: Promoting Education, Teaching, & Research on AIDS
    These easy-to-navigate, easy-to-understand resource modules provide information about HIV/AIDS incidence, prevalence, antecedents, consequences, prevention, and treatment.
  • DILS: The Data & Internet Literacy Series
    The user-friendly modules provide a comprehensive guide to teaching and learning everything you need to know about utilizing data and the Internet to understand issues, optimize your research and achieve your goals.
  • HAPPA: The HIV/AIDS Prevention Program Archive
    The archive includes everything needed to replicate 33 prevention programs or adapt its implementation protocols to meet the needs of a particular population. Evaluation instruments are included to help assess effectiveness.
  • SAHARA: Sistas Accessing HIV/AIDS Resources At-a-click
    This interactive, computer-based intervention provides a positive multimedia learning experience for African-American women. Participants interact with the computer-based intervention individually and at their own speed, with minimal staff time required.
  • Tools for Building Culturally Competent HIV Prevention Programs
  • By better understanding culture and cultural competence and their connection to HIV, this center is designed to help professionals who are planning, implementing, or evaluating HIV prevention programs in their local communities.
  • KTR: Know The Risks
    This module provides a client-directed stand-alone HIV/AIDS risk-screening tool and learning activities center that will facilitate increased levels of HIV risk screening and discussion with clients.
  • HPPI: HIV/AIDS Prevention Practitioner Institute
    Develop a program model. Replicate and adapt effective programs. Understand process and outcome evaluation studies. Collect outcome date.
  • VPEC: The Virtual Program Evaluation Consultant
    Create customized evaluation surveys. Access secure and confidential storage of data from self-administered online surveys.

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