community health educators

JOIN THE NNED

Home / / Archives: community health educators

Shape Up! Barbers Building Better Brothers: A Sexual Health Intervention for Young Black Males in Philadelphia

February 25, 2014

With men accounting for two-thirds of new HIV infections among blacks in the U.S., the University of Pennsylvania researchers looked for the best way to reach the population about safe sex. They found the barber’s chairs. The Shape Up! Barbers Building Better Brothers program launched in 2009 as a one-on-one...
more »

Tagged community health educators
HIV Prevention Education through Community Health Educators in Salons

June 17, 2013

NNEDLearn 2013 Participant: AIDS Care Objective: HIV/STD prevention education through Community Health Educators in Salons Description: Get It Done utilizes African American and Latino barbers and hair dressers as Community Health Educators to provide HIV/STD prevention messages and information about substance abuse and treatment. The program also provides convenient access to...
more »

Tagged community health educators, culture, promotoras

Categories