The commitment of the academic and community partners continues beyond the scope of the AcS intervention to help improve services at the community level, particularly regarding HIV/STI-related services. In the victory phase, we refined the research products: a culturally sensitive HIV prevention program intervention kit and a facilitator toolkit. The established community-academic collaboration promoted the development of research activities to document the AcS intervention as a promising evidence-based program for Hispanic women. For this purpose and to address and overcome barriers, we worked together to request additional funding and in-kind resources. We submitted five competitive grants; three were funded and served to increase sample size and to pay research expenditures. The AcS intervention was an award winner of the United Nations Joint Program on HIV/AIDS in its 2013–14 contest Best practices and innovative approaches to gender, young women, and HIV in Latin America and an award winner of the Merck Health Innovation Award in 2014. Preliminary research findings have been presented at local conferences and symposia through different format presentations by members of the research team.
