Figure 3: Pros and Cons of Uganda’s Knowledge Promotion Method
B. Policy 2- Hot, Healthy, and Keeping It Up! Program Hot, Healthy, and Keeping It Up! (HHKIU) is a behavioral skills-based intervention designed for gay and bisexual Asian and Pacific Islander (API) men. HHKIU was first implemented in a field study at the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Community HIV Project (GCHP), an API gay and bisexual HIV/AIDS agency in San Francisco, California. HHKIU has demonstrated significant reductions in the number of sexual partners among all intervention participants three months after the intervention. The success of this program is based on culturally appropriate interventions and acknowledging risky HIV behaviors. The intervention is designed to increase positive ethnic and sexual identity in order to help participants acknowledge HIV risk behaviors by discussing negative experiences of being both Asian or Pacific Islander and homosexual (e.g., lack of social support, racism, and homophobia). Guided by the Health Belief Model, the theory of reasoned action, and social cognitive theory, facilitators use interactive and group process techniques to address four intervention components: 1) development of positive self-identity and social support; 2) safer sex education; 3) eroticizing safer …show more content…
The first field study involved 329 participants. The initial evaluation of HHKIU showed significant reductions in the number of sexual partners among all intervention participants three months after the intervention. Results from a second study involving 258 participants indicated that intervention participants were significantly more knowledgeable about HIV-risk reduction, were significantly more motivated about addressing risk, had significantly fewer partners, and were significantly less likely to report unprotected anal intercourse than counterparts in the control group at three-month
B. Policy 2- Hot, Healthy, and Keeping It Up! Program Hot, Healthy, and Keeping It Up! (HHKIU) is a behavioral skills-based intervention designed for gay and bisexual Asian and Pacific Islander (API) men. HHKIU was first implemented in a field study at the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Community HIV Project (GCHP), an API gay and bisexual HIV/AIDS agency in San Francisco, California. HHKIU has demonstrated significant reductions in the number of sexual partners among all intervention participants three months after the intervention. The success of this program is based on culturally appropriate interventions and acknowledging risky HIV behaviors. The intervention is designed to increase positive ethnic and sexual identity in order to help participants acknowledge HIV risk behaviors by discussing negative experiences of being both Asian or Pacific Islander and homosexual (e.g., lack of social support, racism, and homophobia). Guided by the Health Belief Model, the theory of reasoned action, and social cognitive theory, facilitators use interactive and group process techniques to address four intervention components: 1) development of positive self-identity and social support; 2) safer sex education; 3) eroticizing safer …show more content…
The first field study involved 329 participants. The initial evaluation of HHKIU showed significant reductions in the number of sexual partners among all intervention participants three months after the intervention. Results from a second study involving 258 participants indicated that intervention participants were significantly more knowledgeable about HIV-risk reduction, were significantly more motivated about addressing risk, had significantly fewer partners, and were significantly less likely to report unprotected anal intercourse than counterparts in the control group at three-month