A Brief Sexual Barrier Intervention for Women Living with AIDS: Acceptability, Use, and Ethnicity

Abstract

Interventions aimed at reducing sexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus/sexually transmitted diseases (HIV/STDs

Translation of a comprehensive health behavior intervention for women living with HIV: the SMART/EST Women's Program

“…The program was subsequently adapted to include all women living with HIV and translated linguistically and culturally from English into Spanish and Creole. A healthy lifestyle program targeting multiple health risk behaviors was incorporated, and the program was found to reduce stress/ distress and depression and anxiety, decrease HIV viral load, and enhance coping and self-efficacy, while improving health status and quality of life [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. Between 2007 and 2011, a translation of this evidence-Implications Practice: The Stress Management and Relaxation Training/Expressive-Supportive Therapy Women's Program (SWP) can be implemented in community-based practice, utilizing existing community health center staff with diverse education levels and training backgrounds, and achieves improved health outcomes in women living with HIV.…”

Behavioral interventions to promote condom use among women living with HIV: a systematic review update

“…Even after contact with authors by e-mail, another 3 studies that met the inclusion criteria could not be included in the meta-analysis, since no further information was obtained about either the absolute number of women living with HIV engaged in safe sex or the mean and standard deviation of protected sexual acts 42,43,44 , besides another study due to lack of further information on analyses done on intervention effects by gender 45 . We identified only 1 non-randomized study 46 which provided complete data on female participants, which was not included in the meta-analysis to avoid potential confounding.…”

“…We decided to include the 5 interventions in the systematic review and describe the results reported narratively by the authors. All 5 studies were developed in the United States, and 3 involved interventions targeting women living with HIV 42,43,44 . Kalichman et al 45 conducted interventions for women and men living with HIV separately, and Fisher et al 46 included both female and male participants in the intervention or comparison groups.…”

“…Considering the 13 studies included in the systematic review, most involved group-level interventions 29,36,37,38,41,42,43,44,45 and were delivered in settings for HIV care 29,35,38,39,42,43,44,45,46 . One was home-based 40 and another 3 were developed in community settings 36,37,41 .…”

“…One was home-based 40 and another 3 were developed in community settings 36,37,41 . The intervention facilitators were only health workers in 6 interventions 36,38,39,40,43,46 , health workers plus peer leaders in 4 interventions 29,41,44,45 , and only peer leaders in 1 intervention 37 . One intervention was computerdelivered 35 and another failed to report this information 42 .…”