Education and Prevention
"An Intervention for Changing High-Risk HIV Behaviors of African-American Drug-Dependent Women."
Published in AIDS Weekly, July 27th, 1998
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Research in Nursing & Health, "The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of an AIDS education intervention for methadone-dependent African-American women. The women were randomly assigned to experimental (n=107) or control (n=97) groups. The experimental group participated in a peer counseling and leadership training program conducted by two experienced nurse counselors over an 8-week period, followed by 8 weeks of reinforcement. The program was designed to reduce AIDS high-risk sexual behavior, increase self-esteem, decrease depressive affect, and increase the women's community-based AIDS prevention...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (1998-07-27)
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