Development and preliminary evaluation of a behavioural HIV-prevention programme for teenage girls of Latino descent in the USA.

National data suggests that teenage girls of Latino descent in the USA are disproportionately affected by HIV with the rate of new infections being approximately 4 times higher compared to White women of comparable age. This paper highlights the need for an effective single-sex HIV prevention program for teenage girls of Latino descent and describes the development and preliminary evaluation of Chicas Healing, Informing, Living and Empowering (CHILE), a culturally-tailored, HIV prevention programme exclusively for teenage girls of Latino descent that was adapted from Sisters Informing, Healing, Living, and Empowering (SiHLE), an evidence-based HIV prevention program that is culturally tailored for African American young women. Theatre testing, a pre-testing methodology to assess consumer response to a demonstration of a product, was utilised to evaluate the relevance and utility of the HIV program as well as opportunities for the integration of cultural constructs. Future directions for the evaluation of CHILE are discussed.

美国的全国性数据显示，拉丁裔少女受艾滋病病毒（HIV）的影响尤为严重，其新增感染率大约是同龄白人女性的4倍。本文强调了为拉丁裔少女制定有效的单一性别艾滋病预防计划的必要性，并介绍了“奇卡斯治愈、告知、生活和赋权”（CHILE）项目的开发和初步评估情况。这是一个专门为拉丁裔少女量身定制的、具有文化适应性的艾滋病预防项目，它改编自“姐妹们告知、治愈、生活和赋权”（SiHLE）项目，后者是一个基于证据、为非裔美国年轻女性量身定制的具有文化适应性的艾滋病预防项目。采用了剧场测试（一种评估消费者对产品演示反应的预测试方法）来评估该艾滋病项目的相关性和实用性，以及融入文化构建的机会。还讨论了对“奇卡斯治愈、告知、生活和赋权”（CHILE）项目进行评估的未来方向。