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Video Intervention Cost-Effective For Minority Disease Clinics

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 1st, 2001

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - A short, video-based group behavioral intervention is a cost-effective way for sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics with minority clienteles to reduce HIV transmission, public health researchers contend.

"Decisions about the dissemination of HIV interventions need to be informed by evidence of their cost-effectiveness in reducing negative health outcomes," M. Sweat and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University say.

Sweat and coworkers showed that the "Voices/Voces" program is an effective and efficient use of health care dollars, with savings from disease prevention far outweighing the expenditures needed...

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