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Sounding Board: Targeted HIV-Prevention Programs

New England Journal of Medicine (11/24/94) Vol. 331, No. 21, P. 1451
Des Jarlais, Don C.; Padian, Nancy S.; Winkelstein Jr., Warren

Universal and targeted components are the keys to an effective HIV-prevention program. The universal element--a unified national response--consists of reducing HIV-related discrimination, providing basic information about HIV and transmission, and removing the legal and commercial restrictions on the availability of condoms, sterile needles, and other materials necessary for safer behavior. The targeted components--efforts that are very specific to high- risk behavior, demographic characteristics, and geographic areas--require concentrating the limited resources for intensive programs of behavioral change on situations in which the risk of HIV transmission is highest. Such a prevention strategy would inform a greater number of people about the risks of HIV while limited funds are focused on those who are most at risk.


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