HIV/AIDS Education

Evidence Based Interventions

Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions (DEBI)

www.effectiveinterventions.org

The Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions (DEBI) project was designed to bring science-based, community-and group-level HIV prevention interventions to community-based service providers and state and local health departments. The goal is to enhance the capacity to implement effective interventions at the state and local levels, to reduce the spread of HIV and STDs, and to promote healthy behaviors

DEBI Project Interventions

Additional Evidenced Based Interventions

Choices

Target: Low-income heterosexual women

Delivery: Group Level

HIP (Health Improvement Project, HIV Prevention)

Target: Sexually active psychiatric outpatents

Delivery Level: Group

SiHLE (Sistering, Informing, Healing, Living and Empowering)

To be added to DEBI in 2008

Target: Sexually Active African American adolescent females

Delivery Level: Group

Personalized Cognitive Risk-reduction Counseling

Target: MSM

Delivery Level: Individual

Project FIO (The Future is Ours)

Target: Heterosexual women attending family planning clinics

Delivery Level: Group

Project Connect

Target: African American and Latino heterosexual couples;

couple or woman alone

Delivery Level: Individual, Group

EXPORT

Target: HIV negative MSN

Delivery Level: Individual

Communal Effectance-AIDS Prevention

Target: Low-income inner city women attending urban cllinic

Delivery Level: Group

Healthy Relationships

Target: HIV positive men and women

Delivery Level: Group

SHIELD (Self Help in elininating Life Threatening Diseases

Target: Low income African American DU

Delivery Level: Individual, Group

MIP (Modelo de Intervencion Psicomedica)

To be added to DEBI in 2007

Target: Hispanic out of treatment drug injectors

Delivery Level: Individual

CLEAR (Choosing Life: Empowerment, Actions, Results)

Target: HIV positive substance abusing youth

Delivery Level: Individual

Project S.A.F.E. (Sexual Awareness for Everyone)

Target:Mexican American and African American women

diagnosed with an STD in public health clinic

Delivery Level: Individual, Group

Female-and-Culturally Specific Negotiation

Target: Inner city, HIV negativem sexually active, out-of-

treatment, crack-using or intravenous DU African American

women

Delivery Level: Individual

Women's Co-op

Target: Inner city, sexually active, out-of-treatment, crack-

using African American women

Delivery Level: Individual