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After uncovering the reasons behind the high AIDS rates among African American women and analyzing the barriers to prevention, it became clear that a center focusing on sexual risk reduction would be most effective. This center will ultimately provide a place where women can feel comfortable talking about sex and be properly informed about sexual risk behaviors; that way, every woman will be fully aware of her potential risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. First, it is necessary to prove that a sexual risk reduction program is effective. One controlled trial studied the effect a HIV/AIDS risk reduction intervention had on adolescent females. The participants were randomly assigned to either an information-based, skill-based or a health-promotion intervention. As a result, the participants involved in the skill-based intervention had the fewest sexual partners, were least likely to have multiple sexual partners and had a lower percentage of STDs (10.7%) than both the information-based (15.4%) and the health-promotion (18.2%) interventions [11]. It is evident that information and skill-based interventions decrease sexual risk behaviors; it is even more important to prove, however, that the African American women will attend and participate in the clinic. An experiment studying the attendance of demographic groups at sexual risk reduction interventions discovered that the non-attendees tended to be male and Caucasian. African Americans and women were associated with higher attendance rates [12]; therefore, not only is a sexual risk reduction center helpful and effective for women, but African American women are willing and most likely to attend.
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