Expanding the prevention armamentarium portfolio: A framework for promoting HIV-conversant communities within a complex, adaptive epidemiological landscape
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Date
2015
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Taylor and Francis Group
Abstract
The article describes a design journey that culminated in an HIV-Conversant Community Framework that is now being piloted in
the Limpopo Province of South Africa. The objective of the initiative is to reduce the aggregate community viral load by building
capacity at multiple scales that strengthens peoples’ HIV-related navigational skill sets—while simultaneously opening a ‘chronic
situation’ schema. The framework design is based upon a transdisciplinary methodological combination that synthesises ideas
and constructs from complexity science and the management sciences as a vehicle through which to re-conceptualise HIV
prevention. This resulted in a prototype that included the following constructs: managing HIV-prevention in a complex,
adaptive epidemiological landscape; problematising and increasing the scope of the HIV knowledge armamentarium through
education that focuses on the viral load and Langerhans cells; disruptive innovation and safe-fail probes followed by the
facilitation of path creations and pattern management implementation techniques. These constructs are underpinned by a
‘middle-ground’ prevention approach which is designed to bridge the prevention ‘fault line’, enabling a multi-ontology
conceptualisation of the challenge to be developed.
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Public health, HIV, Management sciences, Limpopo Province, Rural Development and Innovation Hub
Citation
Burman, C. J. et al. (2022). Expanding the prevention armamentarium portfolio: A framework for promoting HIV-conversant communities within a complex, adaptive epidemiological landscape. Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, 12 (1) ,18-29. 10.1080/17290376.2015.1034292