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Abstinence-plus programs for HIV prevention can reduce risk behavior

Programs that aim to encourage sexual abstinence while also encouraging and teaching safer sex strategies for those who are sexually active can reduce short- and long-term HIV risk behavior among young people in high-income countries, according to the findings of a new Cochrane Review.

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