 
February 19, 2009
Connecticut Researchers Receive Accolades for HIV Work
While Connecticut is considering cutting back on funding for HIV/AIDS programs, the state’s public heath researchers are being praised for their innovations in counseling for people living with HIV, The Day reports.
According to the article, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently commended the Options program at University of Connecticut’s Center for Heath, Intervention and Prevention. Developed in the late 1990s, Options trains clinical workers to counsel HIV-positive patients on how to avoid risky behaviors in order to decrease their chances of contracting sexually transmitted infections while protecting their partners from HIV.
”Most interventions focus on people not infected with HIV and not likely to become infected,” says Jeffrey Fisher, a social psychology professor at UConn and director of the program. “But we also need to help people who have HIV to practice safer sex and drug use.”
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