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Table 1 WINGS intervention content

From: The cost-effectiveness of the WINGS intervention: a program to prevent HIV and sexually transmitted diseases among high-risk urban women

Session title

General education activities

Condom skills activities

Communication skills activities

1. Getting and staying healthy

Identifying women's health concerns and community resources for women's health

None

Introduction to basic elements of communication; role plays

2. Straight talk

Female anatomy

None

Barriers to communication; role plays

3. Sexually transmitted diseases and HIV

Disease information, including long-term consequences of STDs in women

Male condom demonstration and practice; ways to make condom use fun

Ways to introduce condoms to resistant partners

4. Choosing safer sex

Contraceptive choices and risk reduction

Skill practice in using the female condom

Role plays for implementing safer sex

5. Living dangerously: sex, drugs, and HIV

Drug use and abuse; signs of addiction; treatment resources; harm reduction

None

"Keeping safe" role plays for risky situations related to drug and alcohol use

6. Relationships

Discussion of risky relationships; resources for help and safety issues such as shelter programs

None

None