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This program is a three-hour, single session, culturally appropriate intervention for use with homosexual Pacific Islander and/or Asian
men. The intervention is designed to increase positive ethnic and sexual identity in order to help participants acknowledge HIV risk
behaviors by discussing negative experiences of being both Asian or Pacific Islander and homosexual (e.g., lack of social support,
racism, homophobia). Guided by the Health Belief Model, the theory of reasoned action, and social cognitive theory, facilitators use
interactive and group process techniques to address the following four intervention components: 1) development of positive self-identity
and social support; 2) safer sex education; 3) eroticizing safer sex; and 4) negotiating safer sex. Of the 258 participants in the
original evaluation, most were about 29 years old, Chinese, college-educated, immigrants. Most had been tested for HIV and had reported
multiple partners in the three months prior to the intervention. Results of the evaluation indicate that intervention participants were
significantly more knowledgeable about HIV-risk reduction, were significantly more motivated about addressing risk, had significantly
fewer partners, and were significantly less likely to report unprotected anal intercourse than counterparts in the control group at
three-month follow-up. (Choi et al., 1996).
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