A closer look at two popular interventions. Mpowerment and Street Smart being adapted.
HIV prevention researchers are learning firsthand how challenging it is to translate existing evidence-based interventions for different populations and dissemination. Translating the Mpowerment project and Street Smart for use in communities and populations that are different from the interventions' original use, investigators are discovering that some challenges can be predicted, but many are small nuances that become important as an intervention is changed.
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