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Complete Listing of Risk Reduction Evidence-based Behavioral Interventions

  • AMIGAS
    Best
    Target Population: Latina women
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2011
    First author: Gina M. Wingood
    Study years: 2007 – 2010
  • Adapted-Stage Enhanced Motivational Interviewing (A-SEMI)
    Good
    Target Population: High-risk Hispanic/Latino migrant workers
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2013
    First author: Jesús Sánchez
    Study years: 2008 – 2010
  • CARE+
    Best
    Target Population: HIV clinic patients who are antiretroviral treatment-experienced
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2014
    First author: Ann E. Kurth
    Study years: 2006 – 2008
  • Centering Pregnancy Plus (CPP)
    Best
    Target Population: Young pregnant women receiving prenatal care
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2009
    First author: Trace S. Kershaw
    Study years: 2001 – 2004
  • CHAT
    Best
    Target Population: High risk heterosexual women and their social network
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2011
    First author: Melissa A. Davey-Rothwell
    Study years: 2005 – 2010
  • Choosing Life: Empowerment, Actions, Results (CLEAR)
    Best
    Target Population: Young HIV-positive substance abusers
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2004
    First author: Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus
    Study years: 1999 – 2003
  • Community Promise
    Good
    Target Population: Underserved populations at risk for HIV infection
    Intervention level: Community-level
    Year published: 1999
    First author: CDC ACDP Research Group
    Study years: 1991 – 1994
  • Connect: Couples
    Best
    Target Population: Minority, inner-city heterosexual couples
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2003
    First author: Nabila El-Bassel
    Study years: 1997 – 2001
  • Connect: Woman Alone
    Best
    Target Population: Minority, inner-city heterosexual couples
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2003
    First author: Nabila El-Bassel
    Study years: 1997 – 2001
  • Connect 2
    Best
    Target Population: Drug-involved, HIV-negative concordant, high risk heterosexual couples
    Intervention level: Couple-level
    Year published: 2011
    First author: Nabila El-Bassel
    Study years: 2005 – 2010
  • Couples HIV Intervention Program (CHIP) NEW 2018
    Good
    Target Population: Transgender women and their primary cisgender male partners
    Intervention level: Couple-level
    Year published: 2017
    First author: Don Operario
    Study years: 2013 – 2014
  • ¡Cuídate!
    Best
    Target Population: Latino youth
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2006
    First author: Antonia M. Villarruel
    Study years: 2000 – 2003
  • Drug Users Intervention Trial (DUIT)
    Good
    Target Population: Young HIV-negative and Hepatitis C-negative injection drug users (IDUs)
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2007
    First author: Richard S. Garfein
    Study years: 2002 – 2004
  • Eban
    Best
    Target Population: African American HIV serodiscordant heterosexual couples
    Intervention level: Couple-level
    Year published: 2010
    First author: Nabila El-Bassel
    Study years: 2003 – 2007
  • ECHO
    Best
    Target Population: High-risk HIV-negative episodic substance using MSM
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2014
    First author: Phillip O. Coffin
    Study years: 2010 – 2012
  • Familias Unidas
    Best
    Target Population: Hispanic or Latino delinquent youth and their primary caregivers
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2012
    First author: Guillermo Prado
    Study years: 2009 – 2010
  • Female Condom Skills Training
    Best
    Target Population: HIV-negative heterosexual women attending family planning clinics
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2008
    First author: Kyung-Hee Choi
    Study years: 2003 – 2005
  • Focus on the Future
    Best
    Target Population: Young African American heterosexual men newly diagnosed with an STD
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2009
    First author: Richard A. Crosby
    Study years: 2004 – 2006
  • Focus on the Future (FoF) for Black Male Youths
    Best
    Target Population: Sexually active black males aged 15-23 years
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2014
    First author: Richard A. Crosby
    Study years: 2010 – 2012
  • Healthy Living Project (HLP)
    Best
    Target Population: HIV-positive persons at risk of transmitting HIV
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2007
    First author: Healthy Living Project Team
    Study years: 2000 – 2004
  • Healthy Love
    Good
    Target Population: Black women
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2010
    First author: Dázon D. Diallo
    Study years: 2006 – 2007
  • Healthy Relationships
    Best
    Target Population: People living with HIV (HIV+)
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2001
    First author: Seth Kalichman
    Study years: 1997 – 1998
  • HIP Teens
    Good
    Target Population: Low-income, urban, sexually-active adolescent females
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2013
    First author: Dianne Morrison-Beedy
    Study years: 2004 – 2008
  • HOLA en Grupos
    Best
    Target population: Hispanic/Latino men who have sex with men (MSM)
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2017
    First author: Scott D. Rhodes
    Study years: 2012 – 2015
  • HoMBReS
    Best
    Target Population: Recently immigrated, sexually active heterosexual Latino men in rural areas
    Intervention level: Community-level
    Year published: 2009
    First author: Scott D. Rhodes
    Study years: 2003 – 2007
  • HORIZONS
    Best
    Target Population: Heterosexually active African American adolescent females seeking sexual health services
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2009
    First author: Ralph DiClemente
    Study years: 2002 – 2006
  • IMAGE
    Good
    Target Population: Mexican and African American female adolescents with a history of sexual or physical abuse and sexually transmitted infections (STI)
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2012
    First author: Jane D. Champion
    Study years: 2005 – 2009
  • Keep It Up! 2.0 NEW 2018
    Best
    Target population: HIV-negative young men who have sex with men (MSM)
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2018
    First author: Brian Mustanski
    Study years: 2013 – 2015
  • In The Mix
    Best
    Target Population: People living with HIV/AIDS (HIV+)
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2011
    First author: Seth Kalichman
    Study years: 2005 – 2009
  • LIFT
    Best
    Target Population: HIV-positive adults with childhood sexual abuse (CSA) histories
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2008
    First author: Kathleen Sikkema
    Study years: 2002 – 2004
  • MAALES
    Good
    Target Population: Black or African American men who have sex with men and women (MSMW)
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2013
    First author: Nina T. Harawa
    Study years: 2007 – 2011
  • Many Men, Many Voices (3MV)
    Best
    Target Population: Black men who have sex with men (MSM) of HIV-negative or unknown HIV serostatus
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2009
    First author: Leo Wilton
    Study years: 2005 – 2006
  • Mpowerment
    Good
    Target Population: Young MSM
    Intervention level: Community-level
    Year published: 1996
    First author: Susan M. Kegeles
    Study years: Not reported
  • Motivational Interviewing-based HIV Risk Reduction
    Best
    Target Population: Recently incarcerated, HIV-negative women at risk for HIV
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2009
    First author: Brian W. Weir
    Study years: 2001 – 2005
  • No Excuses/Sin buscar excusas
    Best
    Target Population: High-risk, Latino men who have sex with men (MSM)
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2014
    First author: Lydia O’Donnell
    Study years: 2008 – 2009
  • Options/Opciones Project
    Good
    Target Population: HIV-positive clinic patients
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2006
    First author: Jeffrey D. Fisher
    Study years: 2000 – 2003
  • Preventing AIDS through Live Movement and Sound (PALMS)
    Good
    Target Population: Male adolescents awaiting adjudication in juvenile justice facilities
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2010
    First author: Jennifer Lauby
    Study years: 2005 – 2006
  • Partnership for Health (Loss-Frame)
    Good
    Target Population: HIV-positive clinic patients
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2004
    First author: Jean L. Richardson
    Study years: 1999 – 2000
  • Personalized Cognitive Counseling (PCC)
    Best
    Target Population: Men who have sex with men (MSM) who are HIV seronegative and have undergone repeat HIV testing
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2002
    First author: James W. Dilley
    Study years: 1997 – 2000
  • POL
    Good
    Target Population: Men who frequent gay bars
    Intervention level: Community-level
    Year published: 1997
    First author: Jeffrey A. Kelly
    Study years: 1989 – 1991
  • Positive Choice: Interactive Video Doctor
    Best
    Target Population: HIV-positive clinic patients
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2008
    First author: Paul Gilbert
    Study years: 2003 – 2006
  • POWER
    Best
    Target population: Black men who have sex with men and women (MSMW)
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2016
    Author: M. Isabel Fernandez
    Study years: 2008 – 2013
  • Prime Time
    Best
    Target Population: Sexually active adolescent females at elevated risk for teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections
    Intervention level: Individual- and group-level
    Year published: 2014
    First author: Renee E. Sieving
    Study years: 2007 – 2011
  • Project LifeSkills NEW 2019
    Target Population: Young transgender women
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2018
    First author: Robert Garofalo
    Study years: 2012 – 2016
  • Project RISE NEW 2019
    Target Population: Black men who have sex with men and women (MSMW)
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2018
    First author: Mary Milnamow
    Study years: 2010 – 2012
  • Project STYLE
    Best
    Target Population: Adolescents (aged 13 – 18 years) in mental health treatment
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2014
    First author: Larry K. Brown
    Study years: 2003 – 2008
  • REAL Men
    Good
    Target Population: African American adolescent boys ages 11 to 14 and their fathers
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2007
    First author: Colleen DiIorio
    Study years: 2000 – 2004
  • Real Men Are Safe (REMAS)
    Good
    Target Population: Sexually active men in drug treatment
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2009
    First author: Donald Calsyn
    Study years: 2004 – 2006
  • Reducing the Risk Plus (RTR )
    Best
    Target Population: Adolescents
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2014
    First author: Valerie F. Reyna
    Study years: Not reported
  • Safe in the City
    Best
    Target Population: STD clinic patients
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2008
    First author: Lee Warner
    Study years: 2003 – 2005
  • Safe on the Outs
    Good
    Target Population: Adolescents in juvenile detention facilities
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2009
    First author: Angela D. Bryan
    Study years: 2004 – 2006
  • Safer Sex Skills Building (SSSB)
    Good
    Target Population: Heterosexually active women in drug treatment
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2008
    First author: Susan Tross
    Study years: 2004 – 2006
  • SafeTalk
    Good
    Target Population: Sexually active HIV-positive adult clinic patients
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2010
    First author: Carol E. Golin
    Study years: 2006 – 2009
  • Sister-to-Sister: Group Skills-building
    Best
    Target Population: Inner-city African American female clinic patients
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2007
    First author: John B. Jemmott
    Study years: 1993 – 1996
  • Sister-to-Sister: One-on-one Skills-building
    Best
    Target Population: Inner-city African American female clinic patients
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2007
    First author: John B. Jemmott
    Study years: 1993 – 1996
  • START
    Best
    Target Population: Young men soon to be released from prison
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2006
    First author: Richard J. Wolitski
    Study years: 2001 – 2003
  • STRIVE
    Best
    Target Population: HIV-negative injection drug users with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2008
    First author: Mary H. Latka
    Study years: 2002 – 2004
  • Strong African American Families-Teen (SAAF-T)
    Good
    Target Population: African American adolescents living in in the rural South and their caregivers
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2012
    First author: Steven M. Kogan
    Study years: 2007 – 2010
  • Think Twice (Pilot)
    Best
    Target Population: High-risk men who have sex with men (MSM)
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2011
    First author: Lisa A. Eaton
    Study years: 2009
  • Think Twice NEW 2018
    Best
    Target population: Men who have sex with men (MSM)
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2018
    First author: Lisa A. Eaton
    Study years: 2014 – 2015
  • Treatment Advocacy Program (TAP)
    Best
    Target Population: HIV-positive sexually active men who have sex with men (MSM) clinic patients
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2010
    First author: David J. McKirnan
    Study years: 2004
  • Video Opportunities for Innovative Condom Education and Safer Sex (VOICES/VOCES)
    Best
    Target Population: African American and Hispanic STD clinic patients
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 1995
    First author: Lydia O’Donnell
    Study years: 1991 – 1994
  • Women Involved in Life Learning from Other Women (WiLLOW)
    Best
    Target Population: Sexually-active, female clinic patients living with HIV
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2004
    First author: Gina Wingood
    Study years: 1997 – 2002
  • WORTH
    Best
    Target Population: Drug-involved, high risk female offenders under community supervision
    Intervention level: Group-level
    Year published: 2014
    First author: Nabila El-Bassel
    Study years: 2009 – 2012
  • Young Men’s Health Project
    Best
    Target Population: High-risk, young gay and bisexual men
    Intervention level: Individual-level
    Year published: 2014
    First author: Jeffrey T. Parsons
    Study years: 2007 – 2010
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