An HIV-preventive intervention for youth living with HIV.

Lightfoot et al. (2007) built a small-group program for youth who already live with HIV. The authors mixed peer leaders with behavioral skills training. They aimed to cut future transmission and boost self-care like taking meds.

The paper only describes the package. No kids were tracked and no numbers were reported.

There are no outcome data. The team simply shows how to run six weekly 90-minute sessions. They list role-plays, goal sheets, and peer coaches.

The paper ends with a call for future trials.

Taub et al. (1994) first urged behavior analysts to move past single-person lessons and fix real-world contexts. Lightfoot et al. (2007) answer that call by placing youth in peer groups where social cues support safer sex.

Fujiura et al. (2018) later tested a one-hour adult version. Their brief BATD-HIV cut depression and lifted self-reported pill taking. The youth program is longer and wider—it adds sex-risk goals—showing how the same core tools grow as needs grow.

Jason et al. (1985) proved peer training works even with blind, multihandicapped preschoolers. The same recipe—teach a peer, let the peer teach the skill—now targets HIV teens, revealing a 20-year span of peer power.

You can borrow the session-by-session plan today. Pick two peer leaders, run role-plays on condom use and med routines, and end each meeting with a public goal. Track what happens and you will add the missing data the field still needs.