An innovation bootcamp model for developing youth-led HIV self-testing delivery strategies in Nigeria: post-designathon capacity building
IntroductionMany designathons, hackathons, and similar participatory events suffer from minimal training and support after the events. Responding to this need, we organized a health innovation bootcamp: an intensive, team-based apprenticeship training with research and entrepreneurial rigor among yo...
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| author | Ucheoma Nwaozuru Chisom Obiezu-Umeh Kadija M. Tahlil Titilola Gbaja-Biamila Titilola Gbaja-Biamila Rhonda BeLue Ifeoma Idigbe David Oladele David Oladele Donaldson Conserve Collins Airhihenbuwa Hong Xian Adesola Z. Musa Olufunto Olusanya Temitope Ojo Oliver Ezechi Joseph D. Tucker Joseph D. Tucker Juliet Iwelunmor |
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| description | IntroductionMany designathons, hackathons, and similar participatory events suffer from minimal training and support after the events. Responding to this need, we organized a health innovation bootcamp: an intensive, team-based apprenticeship training with research and entrepreneurial rigor among young people in Nigeria to develop HIV self-testing (HIVST) delivery strategies for Nigerian youth. The purpose of this paper was to describe an innovation bootcamp that aimed to develop HIVST delivery strategies for Nigerian youth.MethodsThe four-week, in-person innovation bootcamp, informed by youth participatory action research and comprised a series of workshops, took place in Lagos, Nigeria. The goal was to build research and entrepreneurial capacities among young people to develop and implement HIVST strategies. A qualitative content analysis informed by an adapted World Health Organization’s HIVST delivery framework explored key elements of the proposed HIVST service delivery strategies developed at the bootcamp.ResultsTwenty participants, aged 18–24 years, from five teams completed the innovation bootcamp. The five teams developed HIV service delivery strategies that included an element of repacking HIVST kits to make them more appealing to young people. Other strategies that emerged included leveraging community engagement platforms (e.g., vocational skills training and youth community events) to promote HIVST, and the use of reward-referral system to encourage HIVST uptake among young people. All strategies included ways to ensure privacy protection for recipients of the HIVST delivery package.ConclusionThis study demonstrated the feasibility and acceptability of the health innovation bootcamp model to create HIVST designed for and led by young people. This suggests a way to build capacity after participatory events to sustain youth-led research, which could have implications for post-designathon training. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-f83a91fc053f486aa29813491e60a7382024-12-06T06:50:37ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652024-12-011210.3389/fpubh.2024.14543041454304An innovation bootcamp model for developing youth-led HIV self-testing delivery strategies in Nigeria: post-designathon capacity buildingUcheoma Nwaozuru0Chisom Obiezu-Umeh1Kadija M. Tahlil2Titilola Gbaja-Biamila3Titilola Gbaja-Biamila4Rhonda BeLue5Ifeoma Idigbe6David Oladele7David Oladele8Donaldson Conserve9Collins Airhihenbuwa10Hong Xian11Adesola Z. Musa12Olufunto Olusanya13Temitope Ojo14Oliver Ezechi15Joseph D. Tucker16Joseph D. Tucker17Juliet Iwelunmor18Department of Implementation Science, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United StatesDepartment of Medical Social Sciences, Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United StatesDepartment of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesNigerian Institute of Medical Research, Lagos, NigeriaDivision of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United StatesDepartment of Public Health, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United StatesNigerian Institute of Medical Research, Lagos, NigeriaNigerian Institute of Medical Research, Lagos, NigeriaDivision of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United StatesMilken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United StatesSchool of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United StatesCollege for Public Health and Social Justice, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, United StatesNigerian Institute of Medical Research, Lagos, NigeriaDivision of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United StatesDivision of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United StatesNigerian Institute of Medical Research, Lagos, NigeriaCollege for Public Health and Social Justice, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, United States0Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesDivision of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United StatesIntroductionMany designathons, hackathons, and similar participatory events suffer from minimal training and support after the events. Responding to this need, we organized a health innovation bootcamp: an intensive, team-based apprenticeship training with research and entrepreneurial rigor among young people in Nigeria to develop HIV self-testing (HIVST) delivery strategies for Nigerian youth. The purpose of this paper was to describe an innovation bootcamp that aimed to develop HIVST delivery strategies for Nigerian youth.MethodsThe four-week, in-person innovation bootcamp, informed by youth participatory action research and comprised a series of workshops, took place in Lagos, Nigeria. The goal was to build research and entrepreneurial capacities among young people to develop and implement HIVST strategies. A qualitative content analysis informed by an adapted World Health Organization’s HIVST delivery framework explored key elements of the proposed HIVST service delivery strategies developed at the bootcamp.ResultsTwenty participants, aged 18–24 years, from five teams completed the innovation bootcamp. The five teams developed HIV service delivery strategies that included an element of repacking HIVST kits to make them more appealing to young people. Other strategies that emerged included leveraging community engagement platforms (e.g., vocational skills training and youth community events) to promote HIVST, and the use of reward-referral system to encourage HIVST uptake among young people. All strategies included ways to ensure privacy protection for recipients of the HIVST delivery package.ConclusionThis study demonstrated the feasibility and acceptability of the health innovation bootcamp model to create HIVST designed for and led by young people. This suggests a way to build capacity after participatory events to sustain youth-led research, which could have implications for post-designathon training.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1454304/fullHIV self-testinginnovation bootcampparticipatory action researchyoung peopleglobal healthNigeria |
| spellingShingle | Ucheoma Nwaozuru Chisom Obiezu-Umeh Kadija M. Tahlil Titilola Gbaja-Biamila Titilola Gbaja-Biamila Rhonda BeLue Ifeoma Idigbe David Oladele David Oladele Donaldson Conserve Collins Airhihenbuwa Hong Xian Adesola Z. Musa Olufunto Olusanya Temitope Ojo Oliver Ezechi Joseph D. Tucker Joseph D. Tucker Juliet Iwelunmor An innovation bootcamp model for developing youth-led HIV self-testing delivery strategies in Nigeria: post-designathon capacity building Frontiers in Public Health HIV self-testing innovation bootcamp participatory action research young people global health Nigeria |
| title | An innovation bootcamp model for developing youth-led HIV self-testing delivery strategies in Nigeria: post-designathon capacity building |
| title_full | An innovation bootcamp model for developing youth-led HIV self-testing delivery strategies in Nigeria: post-designathon capacity building |
| title_fullStr | An innovation bootcamp model for developing youth-led HIV self-testing delivery strategies in Nigeria: post-designathon capacity building |
| title_full_unstemmed | An innovation bootcamp model for developing youth-led HIV self-testing delivery strategies in Nigeria: post-designathon capacity building |
| title_short | An innovation bootcamp model for developing youth-led HIV self-testing delivery strategies in Nigeria: post-designathon capacity building |
| title_sort | innovation bootcamp model for developing youth led hiv self testing delivery strategies in nigeria post designathon capacity building |
| topic | HIV self-testing innovation bootcamp participatory action research young people global health Nigeria |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1454304/full |
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