New York University: Culturally Tailored Intervention Boosts Safe Sex, Reduces Drinking Among Young Black Women
Share A series of weekend workshops that integrate strategies for both reducing risky alcohol use and preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) led to an increase in safe sex and decrease in drinking among young Black women, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. “By designing an intervention that didn’t treat sex and alcohol use as two separate risk factors, young women were empowered to make healthier decisions and better communicate with their partners,” said Ralph DiClemente, professor and chair of the Department of Social and Beha...
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