Direct contact interventions are those which communicate directly with people whose behaviour risks HIV exposure or transmission. These are grouped below according to their most basic common elements.
Talking and listening relates to direct, verbal engagement.
- 1-to-1 info & advice
- group info & advice
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broadcast & performance
These offer information through discussion and exchange.
- 1-to-1 therapeutic change
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group therapeutic change
These focus on personal transformation over a period of time.
Reading and writing considers development of text, and its appropriateness for readers.
- Small media: Printed resources including newsletters, booklets, leaflets, posters or cards.
- Mass media: Text and image-based adverts placed in newspapers, magazines or online.
- Websites: Intervention-specific websites designed to achieve particular information-giving and attitude-changing outcomes.
Giving and taking considers how resources are made available to people who need them.
- Interactive distribution: is hand-to-hand, ensuring a person receives the resources they need.
- Static distribution: leaving written interventions or condoms in accessible spaces.
- Clinic to community: access to HIV testing in the community has become increasingly common.