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PRS Compendium Featured Interventions

For September, we are featuring interventions that use culturally or linguistically tailored services as strategies to help reduce STI incidence, improve PrEP initiation or uptake, increase consistent condom use, and improve retention in HIV care.
IMARA (Informed, Motivated, Aware, and Responsible about AIDS)
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Risk Reduction Evidence-Based Intervention (Best)

Intended population: Black or African American adolescent girls

Intervention effects/outcomes: Reduced STI incidence

Study years: 2012 – 2017

Structural components: None reported


Donenberg, G. R., Kendall, A. D., Emerson, E., Fletcher, F. E., Bray, B. C., & McCabe, K. (2020). IMARA: A mother-daughter group randomized controlled trial to reduce sexually transmitted infections in Black/African American adolescents. PLoS ONE, 15(11), e0239650. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239650

PrEP Counseling Center
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Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Evidence-Informed Intervention

Intended population: High-risk HIV-negative young Black men who have sex with men (YBMSM)

Intervention effects/outcomes: Improved PrEP initiation/uptake

Study years: 2016 – 2017


Desrosiers, A., Levy, M., Dright, A., Zumer, M., Jallah, N., Kuo, I., Magnus, M., & Siegel, M. (2019). A randomized controlled pilot study of a culturally tailored counseling intervention to increase uptake of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among young black men who have sex with men in Washington, DC. AIDS and Behavior, 23, 105–115.

HOLA en Grupos
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Risk Reduction Evidence-Based Intervention (Best)

Intended population: Hispanic/Latino men who have sex with men (MSM)

Intervention effects/outcomes: Increased consistent condom use

Study years: 2012 – 2015


Rhodes, S. D., Alonzo, J., Mann, L., Song, E. Y., Tanner, A. E., Arellano, J. E., Rodriguez-Celedon, R., Garcia, M., Freeman, A., Reboussin, B. A., & Painter, T. M. (2017). Small-group randomized controlled trial to increase condom use and HIV testing among Hispanic/Latino gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. American Journal of Public Health, 107, 969-976.

Bilingual Bicultural Care Team
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Linking and Retention Evidence-Informed Intervention

Intended population: Hispanic/Latino HIV clinic patients

Intervention effects/outcomes: Improve retention in HIV care

Study years: 2006 – 2007


Enriquez, M., Farnan, R., Cheng, A. L., Almeida, A., Del Valle, D., Pulido-Parra, M., & Flores, G. (2008). Impact of a bilingual/bicultural care team on HIV-related health outcomes. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 19, 295-301.