Q: How do I use the 2008 Compendium to select an intervention for my community?

The 2008 Compendium posted on the PRS website provides you with a catalogue of all HIV behavioral interventions from 1988 to May 2008 identified by PRS as having sufficient evidence of efficacy. The website provides you with a complete listing of all best- and promising-evidence interventions and a tool for searching the catalogue for interventions for certain populations or with certain intervention characteristics. You can review each intervention in more detail by clicking on the intervention name which directs you to the intervention fact sheet. The intervention fact sheet provides you with more detailed information about the intervention, the study participants, the evaluation study, the findings, and whether the intervention has been packaged for prevention providers. You may choose to consider any of these characteristics as important elements for matching an intervention to your community’s needs. Please note that CDC recommends that interventions with packages and available training, especially interventions disseminated by CDC’s Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions (DEBI) project, be considered first by agencies conducting HIV prevention interventions.

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