HIV prevention case management: current practice and future directions.
Prevention case management (PCM) for HIV is an intervention developed in the early 1990s by combining individual HIV risk-reduction interventions and case management. To learn about the practice of PCM, staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) interviewed staff at the 25 community-based organizations directly funded by CDC to conduct PCM and visited seven of these agencies. Most of the programs (80 percent) served HIV-seropositive and HIV-seronegative people. Results indicated considerable variation in the structure of PCM programs, the types of services, and the populations served.
Purcell
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Behavioral Intervention Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA. dhp8@cdc.gov
DeGroff
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Wolitski
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D019090:Case Management; D002487:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.; D003153:Community Health Services; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D011314:Preventive Health Services; D012947:Social Work; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States