HIV prevention case management: current practice and future directions.

Abstract

Prevention case management (PCM) for HIV is an intervention developed in the early 1990s by combining individual HIV risk-reduction interventions and case management. To learn about the practice of PCM, staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) interviewed staff at the 25 community-based organizations directly funded by CDC to conduct PCM and visited seven of these agencies. Most of the programs (80 percent) served HIV-seropositive and HIV-seronegative people. Results indicated considerable variation in the structure of PCM programs, the types of services, and the populations served.