IMARA (INFORMED, MOTIVATED, AWARE, and RESPONSIBLE about AIDS)

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• Description:
  IMARA (Informed, Motivated, Aware, and Responsible about AIDS) is a gender and culturally tailored STI/HIV prevention intervention that includes two group sessions, six hours each, with adolescent girls and their female caregivers. • Created from three evidence-based interventions: SISTA (Sisters Informing Sisters about Topics on AIDS), SiHLE (Sistering, Informing, Healing, Living, and Empowering), and Project Style (Strengthening the Youth Life Experience). • The sessions focus on positive self-image, ethnic and gender pride, mother-daughter communication, maternal monitoring, and adolescent STI/HIV risk behaviors. • Participants discuss the impact of social perceptions and behaviors, devise caregiver monitoring plans, review safe sex knowledge and learn new skills, identify adolescent triggers of risk behavior, and create personalized risk-reduction plans to manage triggers. • Parts of the curriculum are delivered separately to mothers and daughters covering parallel content, and parts of the curriculum bring dyads together in a single group. Daughters’ STI results are kept confidential from mothers.
• Document Type:
  Report
• CIO:
  NCHHSTP
• Division:
  NCHHSTP_DHAP
• Topic:
  PRS Project HIV Compendium
• Collection(s):
  Historical CDC.gov Content
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:18ac0667b2e7566f1600956a273bb3242aa89e9cc0d8128d5c0dfcb2b646fedf
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/149522/cdc_149522_DS1.pdf
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