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This is a single-session group intervention originally targeted toward
sexually active girls between 13 and 21 years of age. The session includes a
brief lecture on the transmission and prevention of HIV/AIDS (based on CDC
guidelines), followed by a video explaining the purpose and use of condoms. As
the session ends, participants receive an educational booklet reinforcing the
program's lessons and coupons that may be redeemed anonymously for an unmarked
box of condoms at a local pharmacy. The redemption rate of the coupons provides
a measure of the program's impact. A field study of the intervention was
conducted with 75 White and African-American females, all of whom were sexually
active. Among prior purchasers of condoms, girls who took part in the
intervention were significantly more likely to redeem the coupons than were
control groups of their peers. Overall, 60% of program participants obtained
condoms, a rate 2 1/2 times greater than that recorded in comparable programs
without a confidential redemption procedure.
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