A Qualitative Assessment of "Generacion Actual": An HIV Community Mobilization Intervention Among Gay Men and Transgender Women in Lima, Peru.

ABSTRACT: The high HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men and transgender women (TW) in Peru calls for innovative HIV prevention strategies to modify social norms, increase social support and promote empowerment and community mobilization. This qualitative article presents the synergistic processes that generated community mobilization throughout Generación Actual (GA, Current Generation in English), an HIV prevention intervention with gay men (GM) and TW in Lima South based on Mpowerment, a U.S.-model intervention program. We conducted 24 interviews with GM and TW participants, informed by observations of GA and the perceptions of its implementing coordinators, and complemented by the number/types of GA activities. Four significant processes occurred throughout GA: (1) high participant enga

SUBMITTER: Maiorana A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12652104 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature