Winston Husbands, Joanita Nakamwa, Wangari Tharao, Nicole Greenspan, Liviana Calzavara, Thrmiga Sathiyamoorthy, Marvelous Muchenje-Marisa, Keresa Arnold, Orville Browne, Jelani Kerr
We assess participants' experience of Black Pastors Raising Awareness and Insight of Stigma through Engagement (Black PRAISE), an intervention for Black churches to promote critical awareness of HIV affecting Black Canadian communities. We used a community-based participatory approach to implement Black PRAISE among six churches in the Greater Toronto Area and Ottawa, in October-November 2016. For the intervention, congregants received a booklet with validated HIV-related information, attended a sermon on compassion and justice, viewed a short film on HIV-related stigma, and completed baseline and follow-up surveys to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention...
July 11, 2020: Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities