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Poder Latino: Community AIDS Prevention Program for Inner-City Latino Youth

An Evidence-Based Practice

Description

The Community AIDS Prevention Program for Inner-City Latino Youth is a sexual health and HIV prevention program aimed at Latino adolescents.

The program is designed to increase awareness about HIV/AIDS by targeting communities with public service announcements about risk reduction and encouraging sexually active teens to use condoms. Peer educators reinforce project messages at school workshops, community organizations, and health centers. Condoms are available along with explanations of proper use at events.

Goal / Mission

The goal of the Community AIDS Prevention Program is to educate inner city Latino adolescents about how to reduce risk related to HIV/AIDS, and to encourage sexually active teens to use condoms.

Impact

This program shows that prevention programs targeting HIV/AIDS risk-reduction strategies and condom use encouragement can delay male initiation of sexual intercourse, reduce females' number of sexual partners, and increase likelihood of possessing a condom among sexually active youth.

Results / Accomplishments

The Community AIDS Prevention Program was evaluated based on comparisons between treatment groups and control groups over an 18-month period in two major cities. The control group did not receive any activity from Poder Latino.

Bilingual staff conducted baseline and follow-up interviews with the target populations and determined that boys who were involved with the program were less likely to initiate first intercourse than those in the control group (Odds Ratio (OR) = 0.08), and girls who were involved with the program were significantly less likely to have multiple partners at the follow-up interview than those in the control group (OR = 0.06).

In addition, promotion and distribution of condoms did not increase sexual activity among the adolescents in the study.

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
Poder Latino
Primary Contact
Sociometrics Program Archive on Sexuality, Health & Adolescence
Sociometrics Corporation
1580 W El Camino Real, Suite 8
Mountain View, CA 94040
1-800-846-3475
pasha@socio.com
https://www.socio.com/products/pasha-poder-latino-...
Topics
Health / Adolescent Health
Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases
Organization(s)
Poder Latino
Source
American Journal of Public Health
Date of publication
Dec 1994
Geographic Type
Urban
Location
Boston, MA
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Target Audience
Teens, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Additional Audience
Latino Youth
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