The focus of this paper is to outline the evidence for brief behavioural interventions that health care providers can implement in a clinical setting to facilitate changes in knowledge, attitudes and behaviours associated with increased risk of HIV transmission.
Highlights:
Even though clients may not immediately change their behaviour, receiving prevention messages from their health care providers increases their receptiveness to subsequent prevention messages.
Prevention messages framed in terms of the negative consequences of unprotected sex and based on the Information-Motivation-Behavioural skills model of prevention results in a decrease in unprotected sex.
PHA should be encouraged to use condoms during sex, regardless of the HIV status of their partner.
