CAPRISA’s approach to community engagement proved successful because they engendered themselves as part of the community. They built trust with the communities by doing non study related community work that empowered the community and made them part of the community.
At our site, we maintain relationships in the community by Imbizo (meetings) where we tackle different HIV related issues and education. We would get various stakeholders to be a part of them event. EG, we would get guys from GK sport to have some aerobics and boot camp and then educate about the importance of living healthy and looking after yourself, then go into HIV prevention and HIV prevention research.
