CLEAR is an intervention focusing on reduction of emotional distress and increase
of quality of life. Each participant is taught relaxation, self-instruction,
and meditation techniques in order to control negative emotional states.
Participants also identify long-term life goals in this program.
Safe in the City is a single-session, video-based intervention that contains key prevention
messages aimed at increasing knowledge and perception of HIV/STD risk,
promoting positive attitudes toward condom use, and building self-efficacy
and skills to facilitate partner treatment, safer sex, and the acquisition,
negotiation, and use of condoms.
RESPECT identifies personal risk factors and barriers to risk reduction and works
with patients to develop an achievable personalized risk-reduction plan.
ARTAS is an individual-level, multi-session, time-limited intervention with
the goal of linking recently diagnosed persons with HIV to medical care
soon after receiving their positive test result.