Background Injecting drug use is a major risk factor for the acquisition and transmission of
HIV and Hepatitis C virus (HCV). Prevention of these infections among people who inject …

This meta-analysis tested the major theoretical assumptions about behavior change by
examining the outcomes and mediating mechanisms of different preventive strategies in a …

In light of increasing numbers of controlled studies evaluating alcohol abuse prevention
interventions for college drinkers, we conducted a meta-analysis to summarize the current …

Objective: The purpose of the current study was to conduct a large-scale, geographically
diverse comparison of health risk behaviors between a broad range of sexual orientation …

Harm reduction is both a policy approach and used to describe a specific set of
interventions. These interventions aim to reduce the harms associated with drug use …

This article is focused on examining social and contextual factors related to HIV-risk
behavior for women. Specifically, this article has three main purposes: to review the …

Over the past 25 years, scores of behavioral interventions to reduce HIV-related sexual risk
behavior have been developed and evaluated. The purpose of the current study was to …

A meta-analysis of 166 HIV-prevention interventions tested theoretical predictions about the
effects of experts, lay community members, and similar and dissimilar others, as agents of …

A meta-analysis of 58 studies involving 30,270 participants examined how study population
and methodological characteristics influence the associations among norms, control …

Criminally involved adolescents engage in high levels of risky sexual behavior and alcohol
use, and alcohol use may contribute to lack of condom use. Detained adolescents (n= 484) …