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The Mpowerment Project〔Kegeles, S.M., Rebchook, G., Zovod, B., Tebbetts, S., Sweeney, D., The Mpowerment Project Manual, University of California San Francisco (2002)〕 is a model community building and HIV prevention program that has been designed specifically to address the needs of young gay/bisexual men ages 18 – 29. It is the first documented HIV prevention intervention for young gay/bisexual men to succeed in reducing sexual risk behavior.〔Kegeles, S.M., Hayes, R. B., & Coates. T.M. (1996) The Mpowerment Project: A community-level HIV prevention internvetion for young gay men. American Journal of Public Health, 86(8), II29-II36.〕 The program has been carefully developed, evaluated and continually refined over the course of 15 years by prominent behavioral scientists from the University of California, San Francisco's Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, the largest research center in the world dedicated to social, behavioral and policy science approaches to HIV. In 1999, it was one of the first programs to be included in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's ''Compendium of HIV Prevention Interventions with Evidence of Effectiveness.''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Compendium of HIV Prevention Interventions with Evidence of Effectiveness )〕 It is the only program included that is designed specifically to address the HIV Prevention needs of young gay/bisexual men and other young men who have sex with men (MSM). ==History== Recognizing the critical need for HIV prevention programs for young gay/bisexual men, Dr. Susan Kegeles and Dr. Robert Hays, research psychologists at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) at the University of California, San Francisco, applied for funding to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to design, implement, and evaluate a community-level HIV prevention program for young gay/bisexual men. Their five-year grant was awarded in 1990. They pilot tested the program in Santa Cruz, CA. Based on encouraging results there, they refined the program and implemented it in a second community (Eugene, OR), where it was named the Mpowerment Project. Following the program's success in Eugene, it was replicated in Santa Barbara, CA. In 1995 Drs. Kegeles and Hays received a second five-year grant form the NIMH to further develop the program for use in major metropolitan areas across the U.S. Dr. Greg Rebchook, a research psychologist who had worked at a department of public health and at a community-based organization, joined the team in 1996. This new grant enabled them to implement the Mpowerment Project in Albuquerque, NM – where the project was called MPower (1997–1998); and in Austin, TX – where the project was called Austin Men's Project / AMP (1999–2000).〔Kegeles, S.M., Hays, R.B., Pllack, L. M. & Coates, T.J. (1999). Mobilizing young gay and bisexual men for HIV prevention: a two-community study. AIDS, I3(I3), 1753–1762.〕 Since 2002, numerous organizations have implemented the program with varying success.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Mpowerment Project: New Location, Same Mission )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Program takes up fight against AIDS among young black men )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=VIDA/SIDA Launching Innovative New Programs )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Come Out and Play on M-Day )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=On the radar: Young, black LGBT Detroiters raising profile, building community )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=On the radar: A special place for LGBTQ youth and young adults )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Vegas MPowerment Project promotes HIV/AIDS awareness among young gay men )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Mpowerment Detroit to host first-ever Red Tie Affair )〕 The Mpowerment Project is cost-effective compared with many other HIV prevention strategies. The cost per HIV infection prevented is far less than the lifetime medical costs of HIV disease.〔Kahn, J. G., Kegeles, S. M., Hays, R., & Beltzer, N. (2001). Cost-effectiveness of the Mpowerment Project, a community-level intervention for young gay men. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999), 27(5), 482-491.〕 In 2005 the RAND Corporation developed a mathematical model of the cost of a wide variety of HIV prevention interventions. The Mpowerment Project is listed as the most cost-effective intervention.〔Cohen DA, Wu S-Y, and Farley TA, “Cost-Effective Allocation of Government Funds to Prevent HIV Infection,” Health Affairs, Vol. 24, No. 4, July/August 2005, pp. 915–926.〕 The Mpowerment manual was released in 2002 and updated in 2010.〔Kegeles, S.M., Rebchook, G., Hamiga, J. Sweeney, D., Tebbetts.S, Williams.R, Zovod. B, The Mpowerment Project Manual, University of California San Francisco (2010) 〕 The individually bound modules cover the following program components: *Module 1: Overview *Module 2: Community Assessment – Knowing your community *Module 3: Implementing Agency *Module 4: Coordinators *Module 5: Core Group & Volunteers *Module 6: Project Space *Module 7: Formal Outreach – Social outreach events and outreach team *Module 8: Informal Outreach *Module 9: M-Groups *Module 10: Publicizing the Mpowerment Project *Module 11: The Community Advisory Board *Module 12: Monitoring and Evaluation *Module 13: M-Group Facilitator’s Guide *Module 14: M-Group Meeting Guide 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Mpowerment Project」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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