Strategies

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

Provide prenatal care in a group setting, integrating health assessment, education, and support

Address the needs of teenage mothers via clinic-based programs that provide health care and family planning services as well as case management, counseling, and other supports

Provide tailored health information and computer-mediated decision making, behavior change, and emotional support via interactive programs

Provide condoms free of charge or at a reduced cost in community and school-based settings

Provide prescriptions or medications to patients diagnosed with treatable STIs to give to their partners without provider visits; also called patient-delivered partner therapy (PDPT)

Increase support for non-profit health care organizations and deliver comprehensive care to uninsured, underinsured, and vulnerable patients regardless of ability to pay; often called community health centers (CHCs)

Provide outreach and support to assist those whose employers do not offer affordable coverage, who are self-employed, or who are unemployed

Elicit information about sex or needle-sharing partners from STI-positive patients, then notify partners of risk, testing, and services; also called contact tracing, or partner counseling and referral services

Provide continuous, comprehensive, whole person primary care that uses a coordinated team of medical providers across the health care system