Overview
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Nia: A Group-Level Intervention with African American Men Who Have Sex with Women
Investigators: Seth Kalichman, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Southeast HIV/AIDS Research and AIDS Survival Project, & the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Publication Date: November 29, 2018
About This Product
Nia is a group-level, video-based intervention with African American men 18 years and older, with at least six hours of content. While the original researcher split the content into two, three-hour sessions, the intervention can also be conducted as three or four sessions. The goal of the Nia intervention is to reduce sexual risk behavior among African American men who have sex with women. The sessions create a context through which men can do the following:
Learn new information and affirm existing correct knowledge about HIV/AIDS,
Examine their own sexual risks,
Build motivation and skills to reduce their risks, and
Receive feedback from others.
Nia sessions are interactive meetings that have both an educational and an entertaining aspect. In addition, Nia uses factors, such as male pride, racial and sexual identity, receiving and giving respect, and maintaining sexual pleasure while reducing risk, to reinforce procedures for risk reduction. A male facilitator helps create an environment where the men are comfortable learning, while a female facilitator is present to assist with practice of making and communicating safer sex decisions and to help challenge and change negative attitudes towards women. Nia groups can be held in a variety of settings, as long as they are conducted in a private room where the men will feel comfortable enough to participate.
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Planning & Pre-Implementation
- Appendices
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- Starter Kit
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- Materials
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- Training of Facilitators Manual
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Implementation
- Session 1
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Product Details
- Video based group intervention
- Six hours of content easily split into two, three, or four sessions
- Interactive and entertaining sessions