A Story About Toni, Mike & Valerie

A Story About Tony, Mike and Valerie

The videos you are about to watch are based on true stories told by women in Newark and Jersey City.

A Story About Tony, Mike and Valerie

Groups were held to hear women describe their heartfelt issues about their relationships with men. What emerged are stories about struggle, strength, and survival.

A Story About Tony, Mike and Valerie

So many women knew how to stop HIV/AIDS that their ideas became the basis of the video.

A Story About Tony, Mike and Valerie

The videos on this website were the result of a research project, and funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research and the National Library of Medicine.

A Story About Tony, Mike and Valerie

We will be studying the effect of the soap opera video series with a four year grant by the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health.

A Story About Tony, Mike and Valerie

More information about the pilot project and the upcoming programs are also on this website.

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(Duration: 43min)

Passion through Protection

In the "Women to Women Study of Relationships with Male Partners", we learned that many women engage in patterns of unprotected sex, meaning that women may have unprotected sex to maintain hope, sensuality, intimacy, strategic gain, and stability with a male partner. However, there are women who felt that they had more choices. Women have power. Read more »

How to use a Condom

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Watch How to use a Condom

(Duration: 6min)

Why Use Condoms?

Condoms help protect against HIV/AIDS and against other sexually transmitted infection (STIs). STIs increase your risk of catching HIV because you may have open sores or bleeding from your cervix, the entrance to the womb (uterus). Read more »