The Social Conditions for Successful Peer Education

A Comparison of Two HIV Prevention Programs Run by Sex Workers in India and South Africa

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11053768
AutoresF Cornish (0000-0002-3404-9385, Glasgow Caledonian University, autor de correspondencia), Catherine Campbell (0009-0008-4644-7728, Institute of Social Psychology London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton St WC2A 2AE London UK, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen44
Número1-2
Páginas123-135
Fecha de publicación2009-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-0562 • E-ISSN: 1573-2770
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1007/s10464-009-9254-8
PMID19521765
OpenAlexW2012905065
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas49
Referencias citadas33

Peer education is a community‐based intervention being implemented worldwide as an approach to HIV prevention. However, its results are inconsistent, with little consensus on why some projects succeed while others fail. Considering peer education as an ‘intervention‐in‐context’, we systematically compare the context and the implementation of two peer education interventions run by sex workers, one in India and one in South Africa, which produced contrasting outcomes. In so doing, we aim to identify key factors in the projects’ successes or failures that may inform future peer education efforts. The Indian project's relative success was facilitated (1) by a more stable and supportive social, material and political context, and (2) by a community development ethos which devoted significant resources to sex workers’ involvement, ownership and empowerment, as opposed to a biomedical approach which marginalised sex workers’ concerns. We conclude with lessons learned and implications for current trends in peer education

Context (archaeology) · Economic growth · Empowerment · Ethos · Geography · Health education · Health psychology · Intervention (counseling) · Peer education · Peer group · Political science · Psychological intervention · Public health · Public relations · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology