Project St. Hope: An AIDS Community Information Outreach Project

ABSTRACT

Project St. Hope built on the strengths of an academic/community partnership to promote a healthy lifestyle for individuals living with HIV/AIDS and to facilitate access to electronic HIV/AIDS information resources. This outreach project utilized a mobile laptop computer lab to provide hands-on education/training at three HIV outpatient clinics. Education/training sessions were conducted by an HIV/AIDS educator and a health sciences librarian. Sessions were subject-specific and concluded with administration of a post-session evaluation. Interviews and a final focus group were also used to evaluate Project St. Hope.

KEYWORDS:

• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• AIDS
• consumer health information
• HIV
• Human Immunodeficiency Virus
• outreach

This project was supported in part by Contract No. 467-MZ-601716 from the National Library of Medicine.

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Notes on contributors

Jeffrey T. Huber

Jeffrey T. Huber, PhD ([email protected]) is Director, School of Library and Information Science, 320 Little Fine Arts Library, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0039. He was formerly Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, Texas Woman's University, and Associate Director for Research, Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library, Houston, TX.

Beatriz Varman

Beatriz Varman, MLS ([email protected]) is Assistant Director for Public Affairs and Information Services Librarian, Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library, 6700 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77030.