Publications by authors named "Basil Lucas"
Article Synopsis
- Community-based organizations (CBOs) are crucial for health promotion and delivering HIV prevention strategies to at-risk minority groups, though they often struggle with funding and capacity for rigorous evaluation.
- The CDC's Innovative Interventions project provided funding for three CBOs to thoroughly assess their interventions aimed at Black women, Black MSM, and juvenile males.
- The article discusses challenges faced by these CBOs in their evaluation efforts—like building organizational capacity, participant recruitment and retention, and using process monitoring—and outlines strategies they developed to successfully conduct their evaluations.
Black men who have sex with men (MSM) in the United States experience disproportionately high rates of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs); however, the number of evidence-based interventions for Black MSM is limited. This study evaluated the efficacy of Many Men, Many Voices (3MV), a small-group HIV/STI prevention intervention developed by Black MSM-serving community-based organizations and a university-based HIV/STI prevention and training program. The study sample included 338 Black MSM of HIV-negative or unknown HIV serostatus residing in New York city.
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