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Intervention Reduces High-Risk Sex Behavior

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, June 29th, 1998

Intervention can change high-risk sex behavior - even in populations generally considered difficult to reach.

The intervention includes group education, role playing, teaching of communications skills, motivation training, and goal setting.

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Multisite HIV Prevention Trial - the largest, controlled HIV behavioral intervention study ever conducted in the U.S. - enrolled 3706 African American and Hispanic men and women in 37 inner-city sexually transmitted disease (STD) and public primary healthcare clinics.

"This study demonstrates that we can approach and encourage people who are...

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