Systematic review of abstinence-plus HIV prevention programs in high-income countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Abstinence-plus (comprehensive) interventions promote sexual abstinence as the best means of preventing HIV, but also encourage condom use and other safer-sex practices. Some critics of abstinence-plus programs have suggested that promoting safer sex along with abstinence may undermine abstinence messages or confuse program participants; conversely, others have suggested that promoting abstinence might undermine safer-sex messages. We conducted a systematic review to investigate the effectiveness of abstinence-plus interventions for HIV prevention among any participants in high-income countries as defined by the World Bank.

Methods and findings

Cochrane Collaboration systematic review methods were used. We included randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials

SUBMITTER: Underhill K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1976624 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature