ASIANS AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS AND HIV PREVENTION: AN ASSESSMENT OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING NEEDS
The API American Health Forum (APIAHF) recently completed an assessment of the technical assistance and training (TAT) needs of community-based organizations (CBOs) targeting APIs with HIV prevention interventions. APIAHF's
assessment was conducted in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the five
other National/Regional Minority Organizations (NRMOs). APIAHF's assessment of the TAT needs of API CBOs
involved multiple methodologies during a one-year period, August 1997 through August 1998. The methodologies
included two surveys of 80 CBOs targeting APIs with HIV prevention interventions (with a total of 58 responding CBOs
from 15 states, Washington D.C. and Guam, 72.5% response rate to one or both surveys), a survey of 30 national,
territorial, state and local health departments and Health Ministries in jurisdictions with the highest number of API
residents (with 24 responses, 80% response rate), 5 focus groups of staff of API HIV prevention programs targeting
API gay and bisexual men (36 participants from 17 CBOs), 8 focus groups of API youth (80 participants under age 25
from 6 cities) and 5 key informant interviews with leaders of API gay groups from 5 cities.
In addition, we used information from several ongoing TAT activities within our NRMO program, including national panels reviewing API language HIV prevention materials in 10 API languages, our National Summit on Technology Transfer of HIV Prevention Interventions for Asian and Pacific Islander Men Who Have Sex with Men (March 1997), our analysis of HIV prevention plans from 40 jurisdictions (June 1998), the San Francisco International Summit on Filipinos and HIV/AIDS (July 1998), a TAT workshop for the Pacific jurisdictions (August 1998) and our National Asian and Pacific Islander Summit on HIV/AIDS (September 1998).
An executive summary prepared by the CDC along with the API NRMO chapter were disseminated to NAPICAS
members in the fall 1999. For more information about the needs assessment, please contact Ignatius Bau by phone,
415/954-9951, or e-mail, ibau@apiahf.org.
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