The CAPRISA team managed to engage stakeholders by educating them, addressing their non trial related needs like building schools. This made them gain more support and trust from the community by indicating that they had more interests in community problems other than research.
The community research groups also enabled them solve issues that were more likely to emerge from community dissatisfaction. more still, the strategies to solve the emerging issues were contributed to by the community members.
We have sustained community interests through;
Outreach activities that sensitive communities about HIV and other common ailments, events that offer HCT services.
MRC/UVRI has built shelters to serve as dispensaries in 2 fishing communities of Bukakata landing site.
Some community based research programs offering house to house follow up on HIV infected persons make community develop more trust in the organisation.
