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United Press International - November 7, 2008
"Currently in the United States there are no effective HIV prevention interventions designed for immigrant Latino adults," lead investigator Scott D. Rhodes of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., said in a statement.
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has nothing to offer to health educators and practitioners in health departments and community organizations who are charged with reducing HIV across the country," Rhodes said. "Many immigrant Latinos lack the necessary information and skills to stay safe."
Rhodes and colleagues are training soccer team leaders as peer leaders to teach their teammates about HIV and how to can be prevented, Rhodes said.
"We also are addressing norms and expectations about what it means to be a man. Men in general don't think about their own health, and we are training the peer leaders to talk to their teammates about how men can ask for help and seek care when needed, rather than waiting until it gets more serious," Rhodes said.
The training will also include condom use skills, how to reframe the negative aspects and bolster the positive aspects of what it means to be a man and how to communicate effectively with teammates, the researchers said.
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