Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. This paper reviews psychology and behavioral economic approaches to HIV prevention, and examines the integration and application of these approaches in conditional economic incentive CEI programs for reducing HIV risk behavior. We discuss the history of HIV prevention approaches, highlighting the important insights and limitations of psychological theories.
We provide an overview of the theoretical tenets of behavioral economics that are relevant to HIV prevention, and utilize CEIs as an illustrative example of how traditional psychological theories end behavioral economics can be combined into new approaches for HIV prevention. Behavioral economic interventions can complement psychological frameworks for reducing HIV risk by introducing unique theoretical understandings about the conditions under which risky decisions are amenable to intervention.
CEI programs can complement psychological interventions for HIV prevention and behavioral risk reduction.
To maximize program effectiveness, CEI programs must be designed according to contextual and population-specific factors that may determine intervention applicability and success.
For three decades, psychological science has been the foundation for public health efforts to prevent human immunodeficiency virus HIV infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome AIDS cases Coates, Temoshok, Mandel, Despite these successes, the number of new HIV infections has continued to rise in the past decade, revealing limitations to psychological approaches to HIV prevention. In alone, there were an estimated 2. An estimated 56, new infections occurred annually in the United States since , with sexual and ethnic minority populations disproportionately at risk for infection White House Office of National AIDS Policy, HIV prevention research has recently become energized by insights from behavioral economics.
