Tools for Building Culturally Competent HIV Prevention Programs

Content Authors: Julie Solomon, Ph.D., Jacqueline Berman, Ph.D., Laura Lessard, MPH, Diana Dull Akers, Ph.D., Angela Amarillas, MA, Megan Bunch, MA, and Josefina J. Card, Ph.D. Programming: Ruben Ruiz, Tamara Kuhn, MA

In the fight to reduce the spread of HIV, addressing the specific HIV-related needs of diverse cultural groups is becoming increasingly important. The Tools for Building Culturally Competent Prevention Programs website is designed to help HIV prevention professionals who are planning, implementing, or evaluating programs to increase the cultural competence and effectiveness of HIV prevention efforts in their local communities.

The Tools website is divided into Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation Toolkits. Each Toolkit comprises a set of research-based, practitioner-friendly resources, including:

	Key Concepts, which summarize in plain language the important concepts and practices in effective, culturally competent HIV prevention programming. Interactive elements within the Key Concept webpages help reinforce the concepts with concrete examples.
	Tools, which are user-friendly MSWord checklists and worksheets that facilitate culturally competent programming. The user can type directly into each document and save it for future use.
	Other Resources, which include "tales from the field"--true stories of how the key concepts have been put into practice in real-world prevention settings--and links to additional relevant resources available through the Internet.

The Tools website also contains an introductory section that provides an overview of the concepts of culture and cultural competence, and their relevance for HIV prevention programming. The site also offers a glossary of all the terms used in the site.

Development of the Tools for Building Culturally Competent Prevention Programs site was funded by two grants from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The site.s content and features were informed by the scientific literature in HIV prevention and related fields and by Federal standards and guidelines for health care and social service provision. The site was also informed by needs assessment research, usability testing, and field testing in collaboration with HIV prevention professionals working in diverse cultural contexts.

Pricing
180-day Unlimited Access Subscription for a single user is available for only $75.
A subscription to Tools for Building Culturally Competent HIV Prevention Programs can be easily integrated into university courses as a supplementary course material. The six month subscription period allows students full access and use of the materials over the course of an entire semester.

This product is also available as part of the HIV RAP subscription package.