"Targeted Prevention for People With HIV/AIDS: Feasible and Desirable?"

According to the author's abstract of an article published in Patient Education and Counseling, "People with HIV/AIDS are rarely chosen as a target group for prevention activities. In this paper we look at empirical and theoretical evidence for the feasibility and desirability of directing preventive interventions at HIV positives. Research data on the behaviour and motivation of HIV positives suggest that the differences between HIV positives and HIV negatives and those who are unaware of their HIV status are not large. However, specific determinants of behaviour, such as responsibility for others or the risk of superinfection, have seldom been measured. Effective interventions...

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