Toward Meaningful Cultural Adaptation Across Implementation Stages: Lessons Learned From a Culturally Based HIV Stigma Intervention in Gaborone, Botswana
Glob Health Sci Pract. 2022 Dec 21;10(6):e2200232.
doi: 10.9745/GHSP-D-22-00232.
Print 2022 Dec 21.
1 HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA. op2190@cumc.columbia.edu.
2 Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
3 New York Coalition for Asian American Mental Health, New York, NY, USA.
4 Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, Queens, NY, USA.
5 Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
6 Botswana-UPenn Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana.
7 Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
8 Research and Graduate Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana; Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
9 Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
10 Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
A culturally based stigma intervention for pregnant women living with HIV in Gaborone, Botswana highlights the importance of conceptualizing and formalizing cultural adaptation across all stages of implementation.