Safer Sex: Good Evidence – Risk Reduction

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• Description:
  Safer Sex is an individualized skills-building intervention designed to increase condom use, reduce other risky sexual behaviors and prevent recurrent STDs among female adolescents. The 1-session intervention begins with a 7-minute video to normalize condom use. The video highlights condom types, purchasing condoms, condom negotiation, and demonstrated condom use. Each participant completes a stage of change self-assessment exercise to identify their thoughts about changing their sexual risk behaviors. A female health educator reviews the video, discusses STD transmission and abstinence, and individualizes the session, based on the participant’s stage of change. Topics included imparting information about unsafe sex, risk perception, pregnancy, condoms, talking about sex, and pros and cons about condom use. Each participant can role-play condom use negotiation, if ready, and is shown how to use a female condom. Each participant is instructed in corre ct male condom use and allowed to practice with a penile model. Written materials about safer sex and condoms are provided. Follow-up boosters are conducted with the educator, at 1, 3, and 6 months after this initial session to discuss interim sexual behavior, review the intervention, view the video if interested, and provide condoms and written materials .
• Document Type:
  Report
• CIO:
  NCHHSTP
• Division:
  NCHHSTP_DHAP
• Topic:
  PRS Project HIV Compendium
• Collection(s):
  Historical CDC.gov Content
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:875a9fed92ae359614a5a72df7f420459b484843dc90fc397b8cb5aedac7128a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/149496/cdc_149496_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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