In 1989, this mission became the framework for the development of our campus's first HIV prevention efforts. At that time, the campus clarion call was for intensive HIV prevention efforts. Dire predictions of escalating seropositive rates, which fortunately were highly overestimated, provided the impetus for movement. Stanford's foremost concern was to protect the health and well being of students, and efforts were targeted at teaching students about HIV infection and making them knowledgeable about individual safe sex disease-prevention strategies. To this day, we continue these objectives.
All services are free and highly accessible to undergraduate and graduate students.
Program Description Project SAVE's initial HIV prevention focus, targeting individuals to practice safer sex, is still stressed although in recent years we have expanded our thinking to incorporate broader developmental issues of college students, such as establishing identity, building intimate relationships, and contributing to society. Student affairs departments, other staff, faculty, and students all contribute to HIV education and prevention efforts. The key success factor is critically matching the degree of professional supervision required to oversee peer outreach and intervention efforts. For example, students who are HIV counselors receive intensive oversight, including weekly structured clinical supervision sessions with a mental health clinician and health education specialist. The program, Volunteers Increasing the Visibility of AIDS, requires the oversight of community service professionals.