Strategies

Restrict alcohol availability and use at sporting events, other public events (e.g., concerts and street fairs) and in public spaces such as parks and beaches

Use individual-, group-, and community-level interventions to provide education, support, and training that can affect social norms about HIV and other STIs

Promote child bicycle helmet use via bicycle safety education, media campaigns, or provision of free or subsidized helmets

Provide tailored health information and assistance with decision making, behavior change, and emotional support via digital interactive programs

Use helmets to absorb, dissipate, and reduce impact forces to an athlete’s head and brain during collisions or falls

Notify partners exposed to an STI of their risk, encourage testing, and refer to services; also called contact tracing, or partner counseling and referral services

Establish programs that accept expired, unwanted, or unused medicines from designated users and dispose of them responsibly

Educate youth and college athletes, coaches, and parents about the severity of concussions in sports, proper prevention, detection, reporting, and treatment

Restrict full contact between youth football players via limits to the number of contact practices, head hits per player, delay tackling until a certain age, etc.