Better interventions are needed to reduce HIV risk among men who have sex with men

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 06:28 in Health & Medicine

Although a cognitive-behavioural intervention to encourage men who have sex with men to reduce their substance use and sexual risk behaviour (as both are linked) was partially successful, a similar reduction was achieved in comparison groups who did not receive the intervention suggesting that better methods for changing behaviours are needed. These are the findings of a paper by Gordon Mansergh from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Georgia, USA, and colleagues and published in this week's PLoS Medicine...

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