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HIV behavioral interventions can cut high-risk sexual behaviors in halfand more than double the regular ...sessions designed to teach ways to reducehigh-risk sexual behaviors reported significant reductions across a range ofsexual risk indicators over a one-year pe...Intervention can help reduce risky sexual behavior, according to results published in Science
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