This presentation is geared to diffuse several science based HIV interventions to state and community level HIV programs. The SISTA and the Real AIDS Prevention Project (RAPP) interventions are included in the repertoire of interventions that are nationally diffused.

The SISTA intervention is a social-skills training HIV prevention intervention for heterosexually active African American women aimed at reducing HIV sexual risk behavior (five 2-hour gender-specific and culturally relevant sessions).

RAPP is a community level intervention developed to help women and their partners reduce their risk for HIV infection. The intervention objectives are to increase consistent condom use by women and their partners, to change community norms so practicing safer sex is the acceptable norm, and to involve as many community people as possible.

The two phases of the program include community assessment and getting the community involved in a combination of risk reduction activities directed toward women and their partners. Women living in high risk intervention communities were more likely to initiate, negotiate and consistently use condoms with both steady and casual partners.

This program was originally broadcast on June 23, 2005, as a part of the 11th Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health, Minority Health Project, with the presentation by Cynthia Prather, Ph.D., and Winifred King, Ph.D.

UNC-Chapel Hill's annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference is a unique forum that enables experts in the area of health disparities to reach an audience of several hundred researchers, educators, administrators, practitioners, and students throughout the U.S. Initiated in 1995, its aims include the identification and reduction of barriers to conducting health research in minority communities. Read more on the UNC website.