Journal of Immigrant Health, Vol. 4, No. 2, April 2002 ( C  2002) Pilot Test of a Single-Session AIDS Workshop for Young Hispanic U.S. Immigrants Annette E. Maxwell, 1,2 Roshan Bastani, 1 and Umme S. Warda 1 A multiple-session AIDS workshop poses a substantial burden on the provider and on the clients. Therefore, we developed and pilot-tested a single-session AIDS prevention workshop, using a before and after comparison in a one group design. Young Hispanic patients at an HIV testing clinic completed a baseline survey and were invited to attend a single-session 90-min AIDS prevention workshop. The goals of the workshop were to reinforce issues discussed in the individual HIV counseling session, and to encourage and practice condom carrying, negotiation and use. Forty-seven percent of the patients attended the workshop and evaluated it very positively. Sixty-eight percent of all patients completed a telephone interview 4 weeks later. The proportion of subjects who always carried condoms increased from 18% at baseline to 42% at 4-week follow-up ( p < 0.0004). Stratified analyses showed that condom carrying increased significantly only in males and only in workshop attenders. KEY WORDS: AIDS workshop; Hispanic immigrants; condom carrying. INTRODUCTION Minority populations are disproportionately af- fected by HIV/AIDS. In Los Angeles County, the number of newly diagnosed AIDS cases peaked in 1992 and has declined each year since then. However, while the majority of AIDS cases diagnosed in 1992 were White (49%), followed by Hispanics (27%) and African Americans (20%), this distribution changed over the subsequent years, partially due to the de- mographic shift that occurred simultaneously: By 1999, the majority of cases diagnosed with AIDS were Hispanic (43%), followed by Whites (30%) and African Americans (24%) (1). Local and national data also show a disproportionate increase of hetero- sexually acquired AIDS cases among Hispanics (2), which calls for AIDS prevention and education programs specifically targeting this group. Spanish 1 Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, UCLA School of Public Health and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Cen- ter, Los Angeles, California. 2 Correspondence should be directed to Annette Maxwell, DrPH, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, 650 Charles Young Drive South, A2-125 CHS, Box 956900, Los Angeles, California 90095-6900; e-mail: amaxwell@ucla.edu. speaking immigrants may be at increased risk for HIV/STD infections because of language barriers, lack of access to health services, cultural barriers to condom use, and attitudes that do not support con- dom use (3, 4). Several studies have evaluated AIDS education workshops and found that they can increase knowl- edge about AIDS, alter attitudes towards risky behav- iors, and change AIDS risk behaviors (5–7). However, a literature search yielded only a few studies that eval- uated AIDS interventions among Hispanics (7–10). One study that tested a social-skills training pro- gram among Hispanic and Anglo-youth ages 13–18 found increases in knowledge and in assertiveness re- garding condom negotiation, asking a friend about their sex/drug history, and discussing a friend’s risk of AIDS (9). In another study, a multifaceted em- powerment program for Hispanic immigrant women resulted in significant increases in sexual communica- tion comfort and reported changes in decision-making power (8). All of these published interventions con- sisted of multiple sessions with the complete pro- gram lasting from 10 to 18 h. We did not find a sin- gle study that assessed the impact of a single-session AIDS training workshop among Hispanics. While a 73 1096-4045/02/0400-0073/0 C  2002 Plenum Publishing Corporation