South African Medical Research Council, Gender and Health Research Unit, Durban, South Africa, and UKZN, School of Health Sciences, Durban, South Africa.
South African Medical Research Council, Gender and Health Research Unit.
AIDS Educ Prev. 2023 Feb;35(1):14-35. doi: 10.1521/aeap.2023.35.1.14.
This article describes the processes of transforming an in-person group-based intervention to promote uptake of PrEP among young woman in South Africa to an online interactive "workshop" during the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning in person and continuing virtually, we used a step-by-step participatory approach with multiple stakeholder groups to develop nine activities to increase knowledge about, as well as motivation and intention to take PrEP, and to address gender-based barriers to PrEP. Activities were informed by our theoretical framework and formative work with young women ages 18-25. We demonstrate how we developed a gender-enhanced online PrEP workshop that was interactive, group-based, and in accordance with elements of established successful intervention design; why WhatsApp emerged as the most accessible application for the young women in our workshop; and how an intervention with a hybrid approach-alternating between chat box and live sessions-combined with verbal, written, and emoji-based communication enabled interaction among participants.
本文描述了将南非促进年轻女性采用 PrEP 的线下团体干预措施转变为 COVID-19 大流行期间的在线互动“工作坊”的过程。我们从线下开始，然后持续进行线上活动，采用分步骤的参与式方法，让多个利益相关方群体共同开发了九项活动，以提高对 PrEP 的了解，增强采取 PrEP 的动机和意愿，并解决基于性别的 PrEP 障碍。这些活动是基于我们的理论框架和与 18-25 岁年轻女性的基础工作而制定的。我们展示了如何开发一个增强性别意识的在线 PrEP 工作坊，该工作坊具有互动性、团体性，并符合既定成功干预设计的要素；为什么 WhatsApp 成为我们工作坊中年轻女性最容易接触到的应用程序；以及一种混合方法的干预措施——在聊天框和实时会话之间交替——结合口头、书面和表情符号的交流，如何使参与者之间能够进行互动。
