Table 1.
Summary of Themes from the Qualitative Interviews
| Coalitions working with African-American and Latino young gay/bisexual men | Coalitions working with African-American and Latina heterosexual young women | |
|---|---|---|
| Direct process challenges | • Maintaining consistent participation (11) | • Maintaining consistent participation (11) |
| • Sustaining the coalition's strategic plan (4) | • Sustaining the coalition's strategic plan (4) | |
| • Engaging new participants strategically (4) | • Engaging new participants strategically(4) | |
| • Functioning within perceived protocol limitations (2) | • Functioning within perceived protocol limitations (2) | |
| • Streamlining coalition decision-making process (2) | ||
| •Sustaining the coalition (2) | ||
| • Achieving more tangible outcomes (1) | ||
| •Building group cohesion (1) | ||
| Indirect process challenges | • Sustaining individual agencies within the coalition (2) | • Sustaining individual agencies within the coalition (2) |
| • Forging collaborations across diverse approaches to HIV prevention (1) | ||
| • Funding competing among partner (2) | ||
| Direct content challenges | • Marketing relevance of structural change work (2) | • Marketing relevance of structural change (2) |
| • Discussing sex with adolescents (2) | ||
| • Dealing with oversaturation of services (1) | • Following community trends (1) | |
| Indirect content challenges | • Over saturating youth with prevention services and messaging (3) | • Discussing sex with adolescents (4) |
| • Responding to youth perceived consequences of teen pregnancy (1) | ||
| • Changing approaches to HIV prevention (1) | ||
| • Dealing with myths about the efficacy of prevention tools (1) |
Notes. 1) Comments listed by frequency with which statements were made. The frequency appears after each statement. 2) Statements in italics are those that only appear in one column for that category.