Risking Everything? Risk Behavior, Behavior Change, and AIDS

• DOI: 10.1126/science.8023156
• Publication Date: 2006-10-06T00:01:25Z
• Authors: Peter Aggleton; Kevin O'Reilly; Gary Slutkin; Peter Davies
• Keywords: Behavior change communication; Behaviour change

Inquiry into the determinants of risk-related sexual behavior is important for development interventions to reduce incidence new cases human immunodeficiency virus infection. Recent social and behavioral research has revealed much about individual factors influencing risk-taking. Findings from these studies have been in educational community-based communities at risk developed developing worlds.