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What is the history of REP?
Started in 1996, Replicating
Effective Programs (REP) is a CDC project that identifies and packages
HIV/AIDS prevention interventions with demonstrated
evidence of effectiveness in reducing risky behaviors. REP supports the
original researchers, through cooperative agreement awards, in developing
a user-friendly package of intervention materials designed for prevention
providers. Fact sheets on each REP-packaged intervention can be found at
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/prev_prog/rep/
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How often are new intervention packages added to the
REP collection?
CDC’s goal is to add
new intervention packages to the REP collection every year. When the REP+ Web site was launched in August 1999,
five packages—VOICES, POL, RAPP, Mpowerment, and Street Smart—were
made accessible. In 2002, Community PROMISE and ‘light’ were
added to the collection. In 2004, three more packages, Project RESPECT,
Partnership for Health, and Healthy Relationships, were added.
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What activities do not pertain to REP?
REP is not …
- a point of contact for ordering HIV prevention information.
To order HIV prevention materials, visit the National Prevention Information
Network
(NPIN) Web site at http://www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/index.asp or contact
them at info@cdcnpin.org.
- a source of funding for implementing the packaged
interventions.
- a source for policy or structural interventions, such
as needle exchange programs.
- a research project that develops and tests
new interventions.
- a source for interventions that have not been evaluated.
- a source for
interventions from countries other than the United States.
- a grant.
- support for continuing an existing program.
- a project to test an intervention’s
efficacy with other populations or in other settings.
- support for service
delivery.
- funding for translating materials from one language
to another (e.g., English to Creole).
- a mechanism
to disseminate the interventions.
- funding to replicate prior research.
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