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HIV Sexual Risk Reduction Intervention

An Evidence-Based Practice

This practice has been Archived and is no longer maintained.

Description

This community-based intervention program teaches women specific social skills that reduce HIV risk behavior. The intervention has five sessions that emphasize ethnic and gender pride, HIV risk-reduction information, sexual self-control, sexual assertiveness and communication skills, proper condom use skills, and developing partner norms supportive of consistent condom use. These sessions are designed to be culturally sensitive and gender relevant.

Goal / Mission

To increase consistent condom use among low-income African American young adults.

Results / Accomplishments

Women who participated in the social skills intervention demonstrated increased consistent condom use (p=0.04), greater sexual self-control (p=0.05), greater sexual communication (p=0.002), greater sexual assertiveness (p=0.05), and increased partners' adoption of norms supporting consistent condom use (p=0.03) when compared to a control group of women who did not participate in the intervention.

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Primary Contact
Ralph DiClemente, Ph.D.
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
1518 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30322
(404) 727-0237
rdiclem@sph.emory.edu
Topics
Health / Adolescent Health
Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases
Organization(s)
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Source
Urban Institute
Date of publication
1995
Geographic Type
Urban
Location
San Francisco, CA
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Target Audience
Teens, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Additional Audience
low-income African Americans
Michigan Health Improvement Alliance