Adapting Evidence-Based Interventions to Meet the Needs of Adolescents Growing Up with HIV in South Africa: The VUKA Case Example

Overview

Journal Glob Soc Welf

Publisher Springer Nature

Date 2015 May 19

PMID 25984440

Citations 34

Authors

Claude Ann Mellins

Danielle Nestadt

Arvin Bhana

Inge Petersen

Elaine J Abrams

Stacey Alicea

Helga Holst

Nonhlahla Myeza

Sally John

Latoya Small

Mary McKay

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Abstract

The VUKA family program is one of the only evidence-based interventions to promote positive psychosocial outcomes in South African HIV-infected pre- and early adolescents and their families. In this paper, we discuss the collaborative process by which a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, researchers, counselors, and artists/educators and families adapted and developed VUKA for this population using community-based participatory research methods. We describe the intervention and explore lessons learned that may be applicable across contexts related to international collaboration and adapting evidence-based interventions so that they are likely to be acceptable, feasible, and effective in a given setting and country context.

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