Efficacy of a culturally adapted intervention for youth living with HIV in Uganda.
This study examined whether a culturally adapted version of a previously evaluated efficacious HIV prevention program reduced sexual risk behaviors of youth living with HIV (YLH) in Uganda. YLH, 14 to 21 years, were randomized to intervention (N = 50) or control (N = 50) conditions. Significantly more YLH in the intervention used condoms consistently and decreased their number of sexual partners in comparison to the control condition. Western interventions can be culturally adapted to retain efficacy in reducing the sexual risk behavior of YLH.
Lightfoot
Marguerita A
MA
Center for Community Health, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, 10920 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 350, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA. mal@ucla.edu
Kasirye
Rogers
R
Comulada
W Scott
WS
Rotheram-Borus
Mary Jane
MJ
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017280:Condoms / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003469:Culture; D015658:HIV Infections; D006801:Humans; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014454:Uganda; D047568:Unsafe Sex / Q000517:prevention & control