Abstract
Background
Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Nigeria are especially at risk of HIV in Nigeria. Their vulnerability to HIV is linked to multiple concurrent sexual relationships, transgenerational sex, and transactional sex, amongst other factors. These factors have sociocultural contexts that vary across a multi-cultural country like Nigeria. The aim of this study was to use an innovative collaborative approach to develop a minimum HIV prevention package for AGYW which is responsive to sociocultural settings and based on combination HIV prevention.
Methods
We conducted action research to develop and implement actionable HIV prevention intervention models that address AGYW’s vulnerabilities to HIV in three Nigerian States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. The action research adopted the breakthrough series (BTS) collaborative, which accelerates improvement through mutual learning. The BTS implementation involved rapid Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles: an iterative process to plan and implement a basket of interventions. Problems or problematic situations, termed change topics, for which interventions could be carried out were identified in each study location. Using participatory approaches during a series of meetings called learning sessions, specific and innovative interventions, termed change ideas, were developed. These learning sessions were conducted with young women groups and other stakeholders. The change ideas were tested, studied, adapted, adopted, or discarded at each participating site. Exposure to and uptake of the implemented interventions was assessed in the study areas using a household survey with 4308 respondents, 53 focus group discussions, and 40 one-on-one interviews in intervention and control study sites.
Results
Five categories of interventions were collaboratively developed, namely: Parental communication; Peer to peer interventions; Facilitator-led interventions; Non-traditional outlets for condoms, and Social media-based interventions. A good reach of the interventions was demonstrated as 77.5% of respondents reported exposure to at least one type of intervention. Nearly half of the respondents reported being exposed to the parental communication interventions, while 45.1% reported being exposed to the youth facilitator-driven interventions. Social media interventions had the lowest penetration. Also, there was between 15 to 20 positive percentage point difference between intervention and control for the uptake of HIV testing, and between 5 to 9 positive percentage point difference for uptake of male condoms. These differences were statistically significant at p<0.001.
Conclusions
Interventions developed through participatory approaches with young people and well-tailored to local realities can improve the acceptability and accessibility of programs that are able to reduce the risk of HIV infection among AGYW.
Funder
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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