Targeted prevention for people with HIV/AIDS: feasible and desirable?

Beliefs about Personal and Partner Responsibility among HIV-Seropositive Men Who Have Sex with Men: Measurement and Association with Transmission Risk Behavior

“…A growing body of evidence suggests that many of the same factors that are associated with high-risk practices among uninfected persons (e.g., self-efficacy, perceived norms, condom use attitudes, substance use) also influence transmission risk behavior among persons living with HIV (Crepaz and Marks, 2002;Kalichman, 2000;Kok, 1999;O'Leary, Wolitski et al, 2005;Ostrow, McKirnan, Klein, & DiFranceisco, 1999;Schiltz & Sandfort, 2000;Wolitski and Zhang, in press). However, it is likely that some influencing factors may be unique to persons living with HIV or differentially motivate them to adopt reduced-risk practices.…”

Single-Session Motivational Enhancement Counseling to Support Change Toward Reduction of HIV Transmission by HIV Positive Persons

“…E. Rutledge ( ) School of Social Administration, Temple University, 1301 Cecil B. Moore Ave., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 e-mail: srutled@temple.edu Prevention approaches with HIV+ persons "Prevention with positives" is an increasingly stressed component of HIV prevention programming in the United States, as demonstrated by Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2003) initiatives. Working with people who know they are HIV+ on strategies to reduce their risk of infecting others has long made sense (Kok, 1999); however, several factors have delayed translating basic approaches used for intervening with populations at risk for becoming HIV infected into techniques to be used with those at risk for infecting others. First, prior to greater availability of antiretroviral therapies (ARV), emphasis was placed on primary prevention of HIV.…”

Prevention with gay and bisexual men living with HIV: rationale and methods of the Seropositive Urban Men's Intervention Trial (SUMIT)

“…The first was issued in 1997 by a National Institutes of Health consensus panel [10], and the second came in 2000 from the Institute of Medicine [11]. The recommendations solidified a consensus about the importance of prevention with positive individuals that had begun to emerge in the late 1990s in the professional literature [12][13][14][15]. Shortly thereafter, the CDC announced the Advancing HIV Prevention Initiative, which signaled a substantial reallocation of public health resources to identify undiagnosed cases of HIV infection and further limit HIV transmission by individuals living with HIV [16].…”