This is a health education and prevention program to reduce risky sexual behaviors, substance use, and victimization of women, including sex workers and drug abusers.
The intervention includes a personalized assessment to identify risky behaviors and plan short- and long-term strategies to minimize those behaviors.
Educational actions address the following topics:
1) HIV information: how to talk to the partner about safer sex practices, including condom negotiation techniques to reduce sexual risk; HIV antibody testing and measures to prevent its spread.
2) Drug- and sex-related risks: risk reduction methods, such as appropriate use of male and female condoms.
3) Violence prevention strategies: communication techniques to be used in difficult situations and ways to get out of a volatile situation, if necessary.
In addition, participants receive a harm reduction kit and personal hygiene products.