NIDA Community-Based Outreach Model: A Manual to Reduce the Risk of HIV and OtherBlood-Borne Infections in Drug Users

摘要

This manual is intended to serve as a guide for community-based HIV risk-reduction efforts targeting out-of-treatment drug users. The NIDA Community-Based Outreach Model described here represents the synthesis of findings and best practices from two national multisite intervention programs supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)the National AIDS Demonstration Research (NADR) program and the Cooperative Agreement (CA) for HIV/AIDS Community-Based Outreach/Intervention Research Programas well as from several smaller evaluations of outreach-based prevention strategies. This Model features community-based outreach as a primary vehicle for accessing out-of-treatment drug users at risk and eliciting their commitment to HIV/AIDS risk reduction, followed by two sessions of risk-reduction counseling and education. The sessions are organized