“…HIV knowledge consists of multiple individual components, including knowledge of HIV prevalence, transmission, risk factors, testing, and treatment (Carey & Schroder, 2002). Knowledge of HIV transmission is associated with fewer sexual risk behaviors and sexually transmitted infections (Haynes, 2016; Voisin, Tan, & DiClemente, 2013; Wingood et al, 2004; Younge, Salem, & Bybee, 2010). In 2009, Nobles, Goddard, and Gilbert implemented an intervention to decrease sexual risk among African American women, and found that decreased sexual risk was accompanied by increased knowledge of HIV.…”