Results of these studies support the feasibility and effectiveness of HIV prevention programs for inmates and their partners both in prison and in the community. Access and institutional barriers to HIV intervention research in prisons can be overcome through the development of collaborative research partnerships. Described the HIV risk behavior of men being released from prison and tested the effectiveness of a peer-led prerelease HIV prevention intervention designed to reduce postrelease HIV risk behavior. A total of 414 Subjects were randomly assigned to the intervention group or to a comparison group. The intervention consisted of an individual session with an inmate peer educator.
Results support the effectiveness of the prerelease intervention.
Subjects who received the intervention were significantly more likely to use a condom the first time they had sex after release from prison and also were less likely to have used drugs, injected drugs, or shared needles in the first 2 wks after release from prison. Implications for the development, implementation, and evaluation of prison-based HIV prevention programs are discussed. Seroprevalence and Risk Factors for HIV Infection among Incarcerated Men in Sorocaba, Brazil . Sociodemographics, prison history, and sexual and drug exposures were assessed by interviewer-administered questionnaire. Prevalence of HIV infection among these inmates is comparable to rates in metropolitan Sao Paulo and other prison populations internationally.