A Behavioral Intervention to Reduce Sexual Risk Among African-American Men Who Have Sex With Men

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV Infections

Treatments: Behavioral: Behavioral intervention to reduce sexual risk among African-American men who have sex with men

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00691496

CDC-NCHHSTP-5157

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this project is to test the efficacy of an HIV prevention behavioral intervention to reduce sexual risk among African-American men who have sex with men (MSM).

Enrollment: 326 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: identify as African-American, Black, Caribbean Black or multiethnic Black, report sex with men

Exclusion Criteria:

• Participated in pilot
• Identify as transgender
• Plan to move before end of study
• Refuse HIV testing at baseline or identified as a newly diagnosed HIV through testing at the baseline
• Under 18 years of age

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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326 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Description:

Receives HIV testing and counseling and 5 week intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Behavioral intervention to reduce sexual risk among African-American men who have sex with men

2

No Intervention group

Description:

Receives only HIV Testing and Counseling