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Moving beyond Counseling and Knowledge-Enhancing Interventions

A Plea for Community-Level AIDS Prevention Strategies

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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) prevention campaigns are usually part of a broader education effort designed to accomplish the following objectives:

  • Increase general public awareness and knowledge about AIDS, its transmission, and risk reduction strategies.

  • Reduce general public fears and correct misinformation about the dangers of casual contagion and ordinary social contact with HIV-infected individuals.

  • Create support for constructive action by increasing general public understanding of the severity of the crisis, its complexity, and costs.

  • Reduce the rate of HIV transmission/infection by changing the behaviors of at-risk individuals.

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Bye, L.L. (1990). Moving beyond Counseling and Knowledge-Enhancing Interventions. In: Ostrow, D.G. (eds) Behavioral Aspects of AIDS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9386-4_9

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