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Health education and risk-reduction counseling provided to one individual at a time. ILIs assist clients in making plans for individual behavior change and ongoing appraisals of their own behavior. These interventions also facilitate linkages to services in both clinic and community settings (e.g., substance abuse treatment settings) in support of behaviors and practices that prevent transmission of HIV, and they help clients make plans to obtain these services. (DOH has added the stipulation that a single session individual level intervention must be research based and not just theory based). Outreach and prevention case management. Each constitutes its own category. Also excludes HIV counseling and testing which is reported in a separate category using a standard bubble sheet.

Excludes

Outreach and prevention case management. Each constitutes its own category. Also excludes HIV counseling.

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Health education and risk reduction counseling (see above) that shifts the delivery of service from the individual to groups of varying sizes. GLIs use peer and non-peer models involving a wide range of skills, information, education, and support. Just so there is not any misunderstanding what group means, group DOES NOT mean a gathering of two or more. (DOH has added the requirement that the GLI must contain skills building and have multiple sessions). Excludes group education that lacks a skills component (e.g., information only as "one short" presentation). These types should be included in the Health Communication/Public Information category.

Excludes

Group education that lacks
a skills component (e.g., information only as "one short" presentation). These types should be included in the Health Communication/Public Information category.

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HIV/AIDS educational interventions generally conducted by peer or paraprofessional educators face-to-face with high-risk individuals in the clients’ neighborhoods or other areas where clients typically congregate. Outreach usually includes distribution of condoms, bleach, sexual responsibility kits, and educational materials. Includes peer opinion leaders. In the new HIV Prevention Community Planning Guidance of 2003, pg 42, CDC emphasizes that a major purpose of outreach activities is to encourage those at high risk to learn their HIV status. Excludes condom or material drop offs and other outreach activities that lack face-to-face contact with a client.

Excludes

Condom or material drop offs and other outreach activities that lack face-to-face contact with a client.

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Individualized client-centered counseling for adopting and
maintaining HIV risk-reduction behaviors. CRCS is designed for
HIV-positive and HIV-negative individuals who are at high risk
for acquiring or transmitting HIV and STDs and struggle with
issues such as substance use and abuse, physical and mental
health, and social and cultural factors that affect HIV risk.
CRCS implementation manual hyperlink. Excludes one-to-one
counseling that lacks ongoing and individualized prevention
counseling, support, and service brokerage.

Excludes

One-to-one counseling that lacks ongoing and individualized prevention counseling, support, and service brokerage.

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A systematic approach to notify sex and needle-sharing partners of HIV-infected persons of their possible exposure to HIV so they can avoid infection or, if already infected, can prevent transmission to others. PCRS helps partners gain earlier access to individualized counseling, HIV testing, medical evaluation, treatment, and other prevention services. Excludes HIV counseling and testing which is reported in its own category using the standard bubble sheets.

Excludes

HIV counseling and testing which is reported in its own category.

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Includes

The delivery of planned HIV/AIDS prevention messages through one or more channels to target audiences to build general support for safe behavior, support personal risk-reduction efforts, and/or inform persons at risk for infection how to obtain specific services

Electronic Media: Means by which information is electronically conveyed to large groups of people; includes radio, television, public service announcements, news broadcast, infomercials, etc., which reach a large-scale (e.g., city, region, or statewide) audience.

Print Media: These formats also reach a large-scale or nationwide audience; includes any printed material, such as newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, and “environmental media” such as billboards and transportation signage.

Hotline: Telephone service (local or toll free) offering up-to-date information and referral to local services, e.g., counseling/testing and support services

Clearinghouse: Interactive electronic outreach systems using telephones, mail, and the Internet/Worldwide Web to provide responsive information service to the general public as well as high-risk populations.

Presentations/Lectures: These are information-only activities conducted in-group settings; often called “one-shot” education interventions.

Social Marketing: Uses techniques adapted from commercial marketing to identify specific audiences called segments and their perceived needs, and then constructs a program of services, support, and communication to meet those needs. Excludes group interventions with a skills building component, which constitutes its own intervention category.

Excludes

Group interventions with a skills building component, which constitutes its own intervention category.

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Includes

An individualized intervention of usually two sessions (pre-test
and post-test aimed at learning current serostatus; increasing
understanding of HIV infection; assessing risk of HIV
acquisition and transmission; negotiating behavior change to
reduce risk of acquiring or transmitting HIV; and providing
referrals for additional medical, preventive, and psychosocial
needs. HIV counseling and testing is more than an information
session; however, it is not therapy. This intervention is closely linked with Partner Counseling and Referral Services (PCRS).

Excludes
HIV counseling and testing is more than an information session; however, it is not therapy.
This intervention is closely linked with Partner Counseling and Referral Services (PCRS)

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Category to be used for those interventions funded with CDC Announcement 99004 funds that cannot be described by the definitions provided for the other six types of interventions (example forms A-F). This category includes community level interventions (CLI).

CLI are interventions that seek to improve the risk conditions and behaviors in a community through a focus on the community as a whole, rather than by intervening with individuals or small groups. This is often done by attempting to alter social norms, policies, or characteristics of the environment.

Examples of CLI include community mobilization, social marketing campaigns, community-wide events, policy interventions, and structural interventions. Based on DOH’s interpretation of Chapter 3: Intervention and Population Definitions, pages lll 9 – lll 10 of the 2002 version of “Evaluation Guidance Handbook: Strategies for Implementing the Evaluation Guidance for CDC-Funded HIV Prevention Programs” The organizations receiving CDC funds have been asked to separate the CLI “programs” into specific intervention types. This allows for better measuring of the activities that take place. Excludes any intervention that can be described by one of the existing categories.

Excludes

Any intervention that can
be described by one of the existing categories.