Community-level Interventions

Community-level interventions seek to change attitudes, norms, and values of an entire community/target population as well as social and environmental context of risk behaviors of the target population/community. Examples of community-level interventions diffused through the DEBI project are:

•  Popular Opinion Leader (POL)
• Community PROMISE
• MPowerment
• Real AIDS Prevention Program (RAPP)

Group-level Interventions

Group-level interventions seek to change individual behavior within the context of a group setting. Examples of group-level interventions diffused through the DEBI project are:

• Healthy Relationships (HR)
• Holistic Health Recovery Program (HHRP)
• Many Men, Many Voices (3MV)
• Safety Counts
• SISTA
• Street Smart
• Together Learning Choices (TLC)
• VOICES/VOCES

Structural Interventions

Structural interventions aim at modifying the social, economic, and political structures and systems in which we live. These may affect legislation, media, health care, and the market place. Structural interventions directly alter the physical environments in which people live, work, play, and have sex, to help reduce risk.

Articles chosen for the literature review were chosen for their currency and contribution to the body of literature on structural/ecological/environmental barriers and facilitators in HIV prevention.