SynthesisAIDS and behavior2014
The impact of community mobilisation on HIV prevention in middle and low income countries: a systematic review and critique.
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Better Together?: A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of HIV Prevention Interventions that Build or Strengthen Social Ties.AIDS and behavior · 2025Pooled it
- Explaining inequity in knowledge, attitude, and services related to HIV/AIDS: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- The role of Community Mobilization in maternal care provision for women in sub-Saharan Africa- A systematic review of studies using an experimental design.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2017Pooled it
- Thetha Nami: participatory development of a peer-navigator intervention to deliver biosocial HIV prevention for adolescents and youth in rural South Africa.BMC public health · 2021Trial
- Community Mobilization for HIV Testing Uptake: Results From a Community Randomized Trial of a Theory-Based Intervention in Rural South Africa.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2017Trial
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- A Qualitative Assessment of "Generacion Actual": An HIV Community Mobilization Intervention Among Gay Men and Transgender Women in Lima, Peru.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Community-led strategies for communicable disease prevention and management in low- and middle- income countries: A mixed-methods systematic review of health, social, and economic impact.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Contextual Factors Influencing Implementation of HIV Treatment Support Strategies for Female Sex Workers Living With HIV in South Africa: A Qualitative Analysis Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2024Article
- Using Participatory Implementation Science to Advance Health Equity.Annual review of public health · 2024Review
- An Open Letter on Advancing HIV prevention: Augmenting an ecosystem-based approach to understand prevention decision-making.Gates open research · 2024Article
- Community interventions for pandemic preparedness: A scoping review of pandemic preparedness lessons from HIV, COVID-19, and other public health emergencies of international concern.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- The role of community engagement toward ensuring healthy lives: a case study of COVID-19 management in two Ghanaian municipalities.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Why were COVID-19 infections lower than expected amongst people who are homeless in London, UK in 2020? Exploring community perspectives and the multiple pathways of health inequalities in pandemics.SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2022Article
- Development of a community-based COVID-19 intervention in rural Ghana: a document analysis.BMC public health · 2022Review
- Racial disparity in ART adherence is closed in states with high social trust: Results from the Medical Monitoring Project (MMP), 2015.Journal of community psychology · 2022Article
- Tackling structural stigma: a systems perspective.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2022Article
- Evaluating and Engaging: Using Participatory Video With Kenyan Secondary School Students to Explore Engagement With Health Research.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Community Health Workers. Reinforcement of an Outreach Strategy in Rural Areas Aimed at Improving the Integration of HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria Prevention, Screening and Care Into the Health Systems. "Proxy-Santé" Study.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
While community mobilisation (CM) is increasingly advocated for HIV prevention, its impact on measurable outcomes has not been established. We performed a systematic review of the impact of CM within HIV prevention interventions (N = 20), on biomedical, behavioural and social outcomes. Among most at risk groups (particularly sex workers), the evidence is somewhat consistent, indicating a tendency for positive impact, with stronger results for behavioural and social outcomes than for biomedical ones. Among youth and general communities, the evidence remains inconclusive. Success appears to be enhanced by engaging groups with a strong collective identity and by simultaneously addressing the socio-political context. We suggest that the inconclusiveness of the findings reflects problems with the evidence, rather than indicating that CM is ineffective. We discuss weaknesses in the operationalization of CM, neglect of social context, and incompatibility between context-specific CM processes and the aspiration of review methodologies to provide simple, context-transcending answers.
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