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Education and Prevention
"Harnessing Peer Networks as an Instrument for AIDS Prevention: Results From a Peer-Driven Intervention."
August 23rd, 1999
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Public Health, "Objective: Since 1985, community outreach efforts to combat acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) among injecting drug users (IDUs) in the United States have overwhelmingly depended on a provider-client model that relies on staffs of professional outreach workers. We report on a comparison of this traditional outreach model with an innovative social network model, termed 'a peer-driven intervention' (PDI). The latter provides IDUs with guidance and structured incentives that permit them to play a much more active role in the outreach process, thereby harnessing peer pressure on behalf of human...
Source: AIDS Weekly (1999-08-23)
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