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Hi, friend! I get a question about Internet-based interventions for sexual health promotion. You may also be aware that men who meet other men through the use of the Internet are more likely to practice unprotected anal intercourse. Therefore, health promoters are increasingly supplementing traditional forms of face-to-face health education with Internet-based HIV-prevention interventions that aim to change both individual behaviors and community attitudes towards sexual health and condom use. However, I found that program evaluation of the effectiveness of such intervention is still very rare. Could you kindly help me with it?

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Simon Lee
23 June 2022
Hi, friend! I get a question about Internet-based interventions for sexual health promotion. You may also be aware that men who meet other men through the use of the Internet are more likely to practice unprotected anal intercourse. Therefore, health promoters are increasingly supplementing traditional forms of face-to-face health education with Internet-based HIV-prevention interventions that aim to change both individual behaviors and community attitudes towards sexual health and condom use. However, I found that program evaluation of the effectiveness of such intervention is still very rare. Could you kindly help me with it?

Hi, friend! I get a question about Internet-based interventions for sexual health promotion. You may also be aware that men who meet other men through the use of the Internet are more likely to practice unprotected anal intercourse. Therefore, health promoters are increasingly supplementing traditional forms of face-to-face health education with Internet-based HIV-prevention interventions that aim to change both individual behaviors and community attitudes towards sexual health and condom use. However, I found that program evaluation of the effectiveness of such intervention is still very rare. Could you kindly help me with it?

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Kitty
23 June 2022

Our pleasure.

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Simon Lee
23 June 2022

Thanks a lot for the information.

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Kitty
23 June 2022

Yes, you are totally right. Evaluation of the effectiveness of interactive computer-based HIV prevention interventions is in its infancy. What is known from the broader field of sexual health promotion is that they are ‘effective tools for learning about sexual health, and they also show positive effects on self-efficacy, intention and sexual behavior’, argued by Bailey et al. (2010). Actually, there is a published article that I would like to recommend to you: . I guess you would love it!

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