NEW HIV/AIDS DATA HAVE BEEN REPORTED BY SCIENTISTS AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA, COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES
AIDS Weekly
May 24, 2010
New research, ‘A randomized controlled trial of an HIV prevention
intervention for street-based female sex workers in Yerevan, Armenia:
preliminary evidence of efficacy,’ is the subject of a report.
According to a study from Yerevan, Armenia, “This study evaluated
the efficacy of an HIV intervention among female sex workers (FSWs)
randomized to an intervention or wait-list control. FSWs (N=120)
completed baseline, 3-and 6-month assessments.”
“A health educator implemented 2-hour intervention emphasized
gender-empowerment, self-efficacy to persuade clients to use condoms,
condom application skills, and eroticizing safer sex. Over the 6-month
follow-up, FSWs in the intervention reported more consistent condom use
with clients (p=.004) and were more likely to apply condoms on clients
(p=.0001). Intervention effects were observed for other psychosocial
mediators of safer sex,” wrote K. Markosyan and colleagues, American
University of Armenia, College of Health Sciences (see also HIV/AIDS).
The researchers concluded: “Brief, gender and culturally congruent
interventions can enhance HIV-preventive behaviors among FSWs.”
Markosyan and colleagues published the results of their research in
Aids and Behavior (A randomized controlled trial of an HIV prevention
intervention for street-based female sex workers in Yerevan, Armenia:
preliminary evidence of efficacy. Aids and Behavior, 2010;14(3):530-7).
For additional information, contact K. Markosyan, American University
of Armenia, College of Health Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia.
The publisher of the journal Aids and Behavior can be contacted at:
Springer, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA.
From: A. Papazian