HIV/AIDS and STBBI Resources
This section of the site provides quick access to case studies and helpful on-line social marketing resources for reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs). We welcome suggestions for additional case studies and resources. For technical reasons, there are a few spots on this site where you may find terms like "AIDS & STBBIs" or "Aids." We will fix these at our next opportunity and ask that you bear with us in the meantime.
From 2009 to 2015, Pathfinder International and its partners implemented the USAID-funded Strengthening Communities through Integrated Programming (SCIP) project in Nampula province, Mozambique. As part of SCIP’s overarching mandate to improve quality of life at the household and community levels, the project worked to increase access to contraceptive services by strengthening and better integrating health and community systems. There was a 400% increase in couple years of protection that occurred across all contraceptive methods included in the Mozambican method mix, suggesting improved method choice and minimized health provider bias.
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The light-hearted Drama Downunder campaign increased access to diagnosis, treatment and care of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), improved HIV/STI awareness and knowledge, and minimized the transmission and morbidity of STIs in gay and other homosexually active men.
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HoMBRes—Hombres Manteniendo Bienestar y Relaciones Saludables (Men Maintaining Wellness and Healthy Relationships)—is a sexual risk reduction intervention designed to reduce HIV and STD infection among recently arrived, non-English speaking Latino men in rural central North Carolina. Developed using community–based participatory research (CBPR), HoMBReS includes the systematic selection, training, and ongoing support of Latino men to serve as lay health advisers.
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The Healthy Penis was a humor-based campaign that increased syphilis testing and awareness among gay and bisexual men in San Francisco.
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BRIDGE was a 6-year behavior change HIV prevention project implemented in Malawi from 2003 to 2009 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP), in partnership with a number of Malawi-based organizations, and with funding from USAID.
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COAST’s “upstream” changes made Chlamydia testing, notification and treatment more attractive, thereby increasing testing rates remarkably over the long term.
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The goal of this peer education program was to reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and AIDS among teenagers, by the postponement of sexual involvement or by condom use. A group of trained students (ages 15-16) created skits, videos, games and posters, then made presentations for their younger peers (ages 12-15).
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Meta-analyses of fifty systematic reviews found strong evidence for the effectiveness of promoting contraceptive choice and use through: motivational interviewing, contraceptive counselling, psychosocial interventions, school-based education, and interventions promoting contraceptive access, demand-generation interventions (community and facility based, financial mechanisms and mass media), and mobile phone message interventions.
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This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions on improving antiretroviral adherence among HIV-infected pregnant women. The study calls for combining a device reminder with other intervention methods.
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This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions on improving antiretroviral adherence targeting among HIV-infected pregnant women. The study calls for combining a device reminder with other intervention methods.
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Parents and Adolescents Talking about Healthy Sexuality (PATHS) is an online intervention for parents designed to improve communication about HIV and increase behaviors supportive of YMSM sexual health. A Randomized Control Trial found that parents who received the intervention engaged in more HIV discussion, condom instruction, and facilitation of HIV testing, with corresponding significant changes in attitudes, skills, and behavioral intentions.
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This systematic review and meta-analysis from 2005 to 2020 found that incorporating sexual pleasure considerations into Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights programs improved condom use and related outcomes.
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This open-access scoping review looks at, for men who have sex with men, what attributes of an HIV/STI testing service they prefer, and what attributes discourage them from getting tested.
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This open-access, mixed methods systematic review synthesizes global evidence on barriers and facilitators to HIV prevention interventions for reducing risky sexual behavior among youth based on peer-reviewed quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods studies.
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This compendium from the US CDC hosts a collection of summaries of rigorously studied, effective, American behavioral interventions and best practices for reducing HIV.
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This website from the US CDEC contains sections on Effective Interventions, Statistics, Training, Tools and Materials, and the Effective Use of Program Evaluation.
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Getting Practical uses examples from family planning and reproductive health to illustrate how to integrate social norms into your program.
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Of 18 interventions identified in 2015, quality of evidence was low. Proportional screening rates varied, ranging from: 30.9 to 62.5% in educational settings (n = 4), 4.8 to 63% in media settings (n = 6) and from 5.7 to 44.5% in other settings (n = 7). Assessment against benchmark criteria found that interventions incorporating social marketing principles were more likely to achieve positive results, yet few did this comprehensively.
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HIV Self-Testing is associated with increased uptake and frequency of testing in RCTs. Such increases, particularly among those at risk who may not otherwise test, will likely identify more HIV-positive individuals as compared to standard testing services alone.
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This document provides a brief summary of options for assessing what portion of any measured behavior changes resulted from your program and what portion resulted from other influences. These options can also be used to attribute the affects of your program on a wide range of related variables such as resources used, pollutants released, accident rates and health status.
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This 2016 study found that money spent on community-based HIV prevention translates into treatment savings. Every $1 spent on community-based HIV prevention programs in Ontario Canada saves $5 in treatment costs.
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This 2017 study compares two modes of visually presenting information - one using photographs and the other using cartoons - on audience's knowledge, attitudes and behavioural intentions.
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