Transferring HIV Prevention Technology to Community-Based Organizations: How Can HIV Prevention Scientists Play an Effective Role in Practice?

Abstract

Abstract The purpose of this chapter is to explore the contextual conditions that affect why AIDS-related community-based organizations might welcome research-based HIV prevention technologies or view them skeptically and as failing to serve community development aims. Our purpose is to try to characterize the environment in which AIDS community-based organizations perform their work and how preventing AIDS is viewed from the standpoint of the community-based organizations to which researchers seek to disseminate their research and HIV prevention programs. Our hope is to promote greater dialogue among researchers and staffs of community-based organizations about how to marry scientfic aims to disseminate research-based HIV prevention technologies, hereinafter referred to as “technology transfer,” with the social change, service provision, community development, and survival concerns of community-based organizations.