A Latent Growth Model Evaluation of the Comprehensive, Integrated HIV Prevention Program Effect on Excessive Alcohol Risk Awareness and Excessive Alcohol Consumption Risk

It has been almost four decades when HIV infection became a severe public health problem. Since then, infectious disease experts worldwide have been working without finding a vaccine to immune people from the disease. So the focus has shifted from developing a vaccine to identifying the most effective evidence-based prevention strategies to slow the spread of the disease. In 2017 an estimated 5.1 million or 14.8% of young adults aged 18 to 25 were diagnosed with substance use disorder [1,2].