This report calls on the nation—its leaders, its mental health research and service provision
agencies, its schools, its primary care medical systems, its community-based organizations …

CONTEXT: The relative effectiveness of interventions to improve parental communication
with adolescents about sex is not known. OBJECTIVE: To compare the effectiveness and …

Objectives Although many factors contribute to racial disparities in human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV)/AIDS among young African Americans, knowledge is a particularly modifiable …

Background: Street children, common in Africa, are increasingly vulnerable to alcohol and
drugs of abuse and lack access to both healthcare and knowledge about HIV and AIDS …

As evidence to support the efficacy and long-term benefits of interventions to prevent social,
emotional, and behavioral problems of childhood and adolescence has accumulated …

This chapter provides an overview of both the field of family-based research and of this
book. The epidemiology of HIV affecting family members is briefly described to indicate the …

While tremendous progress has been made in the prevention and treatment of HIV,
individuals continue to be at risk of acquiring HIV. There is increased recognition that …

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
(AIDS) have become major public-health concerns of the highest priority. Worldwide, an …

This chapter provides an overview of the HIV literature on African American and Hispanic
adolescents in three areas: prevalence, etiology, and family-based preventive interventions …

South Africa's past and present is saturated in discrimination. Its infrastructure was molded
by the violent subjugation of indigenous people, the appropriation of lands, forced migration …