Analysis of AIDS Prevention among African Americans and Latinos in the UnitedStates

摘要

As part of the Office of Technology Assessment's update of its 1988 BackgroundPaper, How Effective Is AIDS Education, this paper will examine the extent to which research has established the effectiveness of educational interventions designed to prevent HIV infection within African American and Latino communities in the U.S. This is the first review of HIV prevention literature to focus specifically on these populations. Interventions with African Americans and Latinos have been selected for review because these groups are disproportionately represented among both AIDS cases and new HIV infections. This report will (1) review the prevalence of AIDS and HIV in African Americans and Latinos; (2) review the prevalence of risk factors for HIV transmission in these populations; (3) describe the methods used to identify studies to be reviewed; (4) present the studies, reviewing evidence of impact of the interventions and characteristics of interventions that were most effective; (5) identify gaps in our current knowledge.