UPDOs Toolkit
The UPDOs toolkit includes videos and resources for academic researchers, community-based organizations, beauty industry professionals, and healthcare providers to help promote awareness, knowledge, and uptake of PrEP among Black women in the Southern United States
The toolkit can be adapted for use with other public health conditions and priorities to:
Share awareness and prevention messaging
Highlight the role of the beauty industry in shaping population health
Recruit for prevention and/or awareness campaigns or research initiatives
Academic and Community Partners
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UPDOs SALON PARNTERSHIPS (:55)
Intended audience: Community organizations and community-engaged researchers interested in partnering with hair salons.Description: This video highlights best practices for successful and sustainable partnerships.
UPDOs: WHAT WE DO (2:18)
Intended Audience: Beauty industry professionals/hair stylists and their clients.Description: This video highlights why stylists and hair salons are appropriate settings for sharing HIV prevention messaging, current HIV prevalence data for Black women, and prevention information including PrEP.
STYLISTS WORKSHOP VIDEO (1:24)
Intended Audience: Beauty industry professionals.Description: The video discusses a training for hair stylists to become opinion leaders in their community. Opinion leaders are trusted advisors that are knowledgeable and willing to share important information with their networks in order to positively impact healthy behaviors. The opinion leader training is currently offered face to face, however, an asynchronous interactive training will be available soon.
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Ask me about PrEP signage
Signs to encourage a conversation about PrEP.Road to MY HAIR GOALS
Tips for those interested in partnering with salons and stylists for health promotion.Opinion Leader facilitator training request
Intervention Implementation & Organizational Social Context
Resources and tools to assist in examining partnerships to reach your research goals. -
Reasons Over Risks: NPs and HIV Prevention for Black Women (The Journal for Nurse Practitioners - March, 2024)
Using an Equity in Research Framework to Develop a Community-Engaged Intervention to Improve Preexposure Uptake Among Black Women Living in the United States South (Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, March/April 2024)
Beauty Industry Professionals
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STYLISTS WORKSHOP VIDEO (1:24) Intended Audience: Beauty industry professionals.
Description: The video discusses a training for hair stylists to become opinion leaders in their community. Opinion leaders are trusted advisors that are knowledgeable and willing to share important information with their networks in order to positively impact healthy behaviors. The opinion leader training is currently offered face to face, however, an asynchronous interactive training will be available soon.
UPDOs: WHAT WE DO (2:18)
Intended Audience: Beauty industry professionals/hair stylists and their clients.Description: This video highlights why stylists and hair salons are appropriate settings for sharing HIV prevention messaging, current HIV prevalence data for Black women, and prevention information including PrEP.
SHAREE’S VIDEO
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Ask me about PrEP signage
Encourage a conversation about PrEP (coming soon!)Beauty Tips with THAIRAPY
Tips in the form of hair therapy or THAIRAPY! for those interested in offering health promotion to their clients.
Healthcare
Providers
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KARA’S VIDEO: A PROVIDER’S PERSPECTIVE
In this video Kara McGee, PA shares her perspective of working as a provider of over a decade in HIV prevention and care. She highlights the urgency of prioritizing Black women in HIV prevention and the impact that addressing racism, distrust, equity, and social justice has in meeting the end the HIV epidemic goals. -
Risk to Reasons
Guided by advocates across the country, Risk to Reasons sets out to develop new messages, new messengers and new methods toincrease awareness and action around HIV prevention and care to Black women of cis and trans experience.
Transitioning from Risk-based to Reason-based Language in HIV Prevention
This handout serves as a call to action to critically examine and challenge the prevailing risk-centric framework that has traditionally guided HIV assessment and prevention strategies. We propose a shift from a risk-centric framework to one that is reason centric and rooted in equitable and holistic sexual health care to foster better patient-provider communication