Working through bound liberation: a community engagement framework for health partnerships.

Background: A community-academic partnership was developed to implement a community-based participatory research project within Chicago's Englewood community.

Objectives: We explain how Mental Health Impact Assessment (MHIA) ensures that mental health and health inequities are considered in decision making by using a systematic process that engages populations most likely to be impacted by those decisions.

Methods: We report on the process of developing an MHIA by engaging community partners to evaluate and predict potential mental health outcomes of an employment policy.

Methods of promoting safer sex behaviors utilized by men who have sex with male casual sex partners.

The purpose of this article is to report results of a qualitative investigation into the methods that HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) use to initiate safer sex with casual sexual partners. In-depth, qualitative interviews were conducted with 57 HIV-positive adult MSM living in a large midwestern city. Using an inductive approach to data analysis, participants revealed a typology of safer sex strategies that can be placed into four primary categorizations: having a nonnegotiable sexual behavior policy, behaviorally controlling the interaction, being verbally direct, and being verbally indirect.

Women's report of regret of HIV disclosure to family, friends and sex partners.

The purpose of this study was to examine whether HIV-positive women experience regret as a consequence of disclosing their HIV serostatus. Participants for this study were 73 HIV-positive women involved in a longitudinal study of HIV disclosure. Results revealed that overall, participants experienced little regret.