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Interventions for Adolescents in Community Settings

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Preventing AIDS

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Although in the United States the largest number of reported cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) have involved white men who engaged in same-gender sexual activities, a confluence of evidence suggests that inner-city African-American adolescents are at risk for infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It may be possible to reduce the risk of AIDS among inner-city African-American adolescents by identifying the key HIV risk-associated behaviors in this population, the intervention-sensitive conceptual variables that determine those behaviors, and the most effective behavior-change intervention strategies. In this chapter, we will summarize and review critically the literature on interventions to reduce the risk of HIV infection among adolescents in community settings.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 08544, USA

    John B. Jemmott III

  2. College of Nursing, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, 07112, USA

    Loretta Sweet Jemmott

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  1. School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and School of Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, and Center for AIDS Research, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, 35294, USA

    Ralph J. DiClemente Ph.D.

  2. Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, 30303, USA

    John L. Peterson Ph.D.

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Jemmott, J.B., Jemmott, L.S. (1994). Interventions for Adolescents in Community Settings. In: DiClemente, R.J., Peterson, J.L. (eds) Preventing AIDS. AIDS Prevention and Mental Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1193-3_8

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