HIV Prevention

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This paper explains that the purpose of this study is to assess interventions to decrease adolescent risky sexual behaviors and to increase HIV prevention practices.The author points out that HIV transmission among the adolescent population is much too high and adds to the incidence of AIDS among adults and to the costs of that disease to society. The paper relates that the two methods to be tested, which are part of different types of educational program on HIV and prevention, are abstinence and methods for safe sex.

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"The purpose of this study is to assess interventions to decrease adolescent risky sexual behaviors and to increase HIV prevention practices. Two research questions are to be examined. The first is, how effective are these interventions (abstinence, safer sex) over time in reducing risk behaviors associated with HIV transmission for this population group. The second is, what are the effects on education on preventing risk behaviors associated with HIV transmission in the adolescent population. Several different programs have been developed as interventions to prevent teenagers from taking risky behavior. Such programs are often educational in nature, trying to impart information and so gain acceptance of safe sex or abstinence, which are also suggested by the lessons. Certainly, preventing HIV transmission among adolescents affects the educational experience by keeping these young people in school and by avoiding the sort of difficulties faced by them and their classmates when HIV becomes a more common disease."

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