“…Effective Latino HIV interventions must employ culturally appropriate methods such as the storybased "fotonovelas" and "radionovelas" (Rios-Ellis et al, 2008). Spanish speaking trainers should conduct interventions at schools, community health centers, and community-based organizations in order to positively improve adolescent's HIV knowledge, which in turn lessens HIV/AIDS risk behaviors among Hispanic/Latino adolescents (Rios-Ellis et al, 2008). Also, program developers must address Hispanic/Latino cultural values such as familialism, "machismo", "marianismo", allocentrism, fatalism, power distance, personal space, time orientation, and gender roles" to design interventions that promote Hispanic/Latino parent-adolescent communication as a mean for HIV/AIDS risk reduction strategy among adolescents (Benavides, Bonazzo, & Torres, 2006, p. 92).…”