A Network Intervention for Reducing Sexual Risk for HIV With African American Men Who Have Sex With Men (AA MSM) (UDP)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV Infections

Treatments: Behavioral: Unity in Diversity

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00691041

CDC-NCHHSTP-5221

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to examine the efficacy of a network-oriented "outreach intervention" to reduce HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) related risk behaviors among African American men who have sex with men (AA MSM)and their social network. The hypothesis is to determine whether the new intervention is more efficacious at reducing high risk sexual behaviors than the standard normal of care provided to the public (a single session of individual HIV counseling and testing.

Full description

The intervention increases participants' personal level of knowledge and skills concerning HIV prevention and inspires participants to diffuse the information to their social network.

Enrollment: 233 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Identify as a black / African American male
• Report sex with at least 2 people in past 3 months/ 1 being male
• Willingness to take HIV test or provide documentation if HIV+
• Willingness to identify and recruit friend/relative to study

Exclusion criteria

• Under age 18
• Identify as female or transgender
• Not identify as Black / African American

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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233 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Description:

HIV/STI counseling and testing and a 7 session intervention to increase participants' level of knowledge and skills concerning HIV prevention (to decrease HIV acquisition or transmission) and to diffuse the information to their social network

Treatment:

Behavioral: Unity in Diversity

2

No Intervention group

Description:

HIV/STI counseling and testing and a single 15 minute session of resources available in the community