RESEARCH SUMMARY:
Systematic Review of HIV Behavioral Prevention Research Among Heterosexual African Americans



This Research Summary reviews the effectiveness of prevention interventions conducted throughout the United States and designed to serve heterosexual African American communities. It focuses on the key elements of interventions proven effective in terms of behavioral change. A standard set of inclusion and exclusion criteria was developed, and information was extracted from a wide range of sources in order to complete the research synthesis on available outcome studies. A total of 46 studies of the highest methodological quality are included in the analysis.
   

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Research Team:
Lynae Darbes, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS), UCSF
Gail E. Kennedy and George W. Rutherford, Institute for Global Health, UCSF

All three are members of the Cochrane Collaborative Review Group on HIV Infection and AIDS


California Collaborations is a project sponsored by:
California HIV/AIDS Research Program, University of California Office of the President
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California State Office of AIDS
 
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