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Community Involvement in HIV-related Policy Initiatives: History, Experiences, and Next Steps

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Despite the undeniable role of policy initiatives in the HIV epidemic, little research has been conducted to evaluate HIV-related policy initiatives that involve partnerships among community members; representatives from community-based organizations, government agencies, and businesses; and academic researchers. In this chapter, we review five policy-change frameworks and the ways in which communities are engaged and partnerships are developed. We then build a rationale for the application of community engagement and partnership and community-based participatory research (CBPR) in HIV-related policy initiatives, providing examples of policy initiatives and lessons learned from such efforts. Lastly, we propose a health-related and community-engaged framework that is informed by existing policy-change frameworks and experiences with policy initiatives that harnessed the strengths of partnerships that included community members; representatives from community-based organizations, government agencies, and businesses; and academic researchers.

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  1. Department of Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa College of Public Health, N438 CPHB, 145 Riverside Dr., 52242, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Jason Daniel-Ulloa PhD, MPH

  2. Department of Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa College of Public Health, N426 CPHB, 145 Riverside Dr., 52242, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Briana Woods-Jaeger PhD

  3. Strengthening The Black Family, Inc., 568 E Lenoir St Suite 001, 27601, Raleigh, NC, USA

    Melvin Jackson MSPH

  4. Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Iowa College of Public Health, 145 Riverside Dr., Box 312 CPHB, 52242, Iowa City, IA, USA

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  5. Community Based Participatory Research Core Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box #7426, 1700 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, 27599, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Alexandra Lightfoot EdD

  6. Focus on Youth Project, Strengthening the Black Family, Inc., 568 E, Lenoir St Suite 001, 27601, Raleigh, NC, USA

    Linda Riggins BA

  7. Public Health Program, School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Taylor University, 236 West Reade Avenue, 46989, Upland, IN, USA

    Dr Robert E. Aronson PH, MPH

  8. Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, 27157, NC, USA

    Scott D. Rhodes PhD, MPH

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Daniel-Ulloa, J. et al. (2014). Community Involvement in HIV-related Policy Initiatives: History, Experiences, and Next Steps. In: Rhodes, S. (eds) Innovations in HIV Prevention Research and Practice through Community Engagement. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0900-1_8

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