Community Collaborative Youth-Focused HIV/AIDS Prevention in South Africa and Trinidad: Preliminary Findings
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Community collaborative youth-focused HIV/AIDS prevention in South Africa and Trinidad: preliminary findings.
BACKGROUND South Africa and Trinidad and Tobago are disproportionately impacted by high rates of HIV/AIDS among adolescents. OBJECTIVE The article describes the HIV crises in these countries; outlines a community participatory research framework to adapt and deliver family-based prevention; and presents preliminary data from intervention pilots in each setting. METHODS Adapted interventions...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pediatric Psychology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1465-735X,0146-8693
DOI: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsj100