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d-up Defend Yourself! A Community-Level Intervention for Black MSM

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This information sheet describes a community-level risk-reduction intervention that attempts to change social norms and perceptions of black men who have sex with men (MSM) regarding safer sex practices and improve their sense of self-worth as black MSM. It uses individuals, called opinion leaders, who are respected and trusted by their peers, to promote the benefits of consistent condom use and increase feelings of positive self-worth among friends and acquaintances. Opinion leaders are identified during the community discovery and recruited by an agency implementing d-up!

Many Men, Many Voices: A Group-Level Intervention for Gay Men of Color

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This information sheet describes Many Men, Many Voices (3MV), a 7-session group level intervention program to prevent HIV and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among black men who have sex with men. It addresses factors that influence the behavior of black MSM: cultural, religious, and social norms; interactions between HIV and other STDs; sexual relationship dynamics; and social influences of racism and homophobia on HIV risk behaviors. The sheet includes contact information for the program and for training.

Self-Help in Eliminating LIfe-Threatening Diseases (SHIELD): Training Peer Educators to Conduct HIV Prevention

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This information sheet discusses the Self-Help in Eliminating Life-Threatening Diseases (SHIELD) program, an HIV prevention peer-education program. SHIELD is a group intervention that trains current and former drug users to be peer educators and share HIV prevention information among their social networks. The information sheet describes the program, the target population, the process, session topics, core elements, and research results. This program is included in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions (DEBI) projects.

HIV/AIDS Among Hispanics/Latinos

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This information sheet discusses the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS among Hispanic/Latino communities in the United States.

VIH/SIDA en los Estados Unidos

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This information sheet presents an update on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States. It reports on the new cases diagnosed in the 34 states with long-term, confidential name-based HIV reporting by sex, transmission category, race/ethnicity, and age. The information sheet also provides statistics on trends in AIDS diagnoses and deaths from 2003 to 2007.

We Count

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This documentary presents transgender people speaking for themselves about problems associated with lack of health care, discrimination, stigma, and issues related to HIV in their community.

Voices of Experience: Living with HIV. Denise

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This audiovisual file is a podcast featuring a woman living with AIDS. The woman tells the story of how she was diagnosed with HIV at age 16, how she was able to get information about the disease and treatment, and how that experience made her into an advocate for helping others. She emphasizes the importance of HIV testing.

Updated Interim Guidance–HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents: Considerations for Clinicians Regarding Swine-Origin Influenza A (H1N1) Virus

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This Web site provides interim guidance for clinicians who treat immune compromised persons, including HIV-infected adults and adolescents. The page explains that persons with low CD4 cell counts or AIDS can experience more severe complications of seasonal influenza, and possibly HIV-infected adults and adolescents are at higher risk for swine-origin influenza complications.

Men Who Have Sex With Men: Answers About HIV Vaccine Research

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This information sheet discusses how HIV/AIDS affects men who have sex with men (MSM), provides statistics on MSM infected with HIV and dying from AIDS, and the increase in sexual risk taking among MSM. It defines vaccine, and explains why a preventive HIV vaccine is needed, what is happening in preventive HIV vaccine research, the safety of the vaccines being tested in people, whether the research is being done right, who is doing the research, and where individuals can get more information on preventive HIV vaccine research.

Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): A Potential New Method for HIV Prevention

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This pamphlet discusses pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a medical term for giving medicines that fight HIV to people who are not infected before they are in contact with the virus, to try and prevent infection. The pamphlet explains that this approach is being studied in clinical trials with injection drug users in Asia; men who have sex with men in the United States, Africa, Asia, and Latin America; and heterosexual men and women in Africa. Results of the trials will be available in late 2009 and 2010.