Moon and Sun Brothers: A Community Prevention Intervention (Hermanos de Luna y Sol)

San Francisco State University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Risky Health Behavior; Help-Seeking Behavior; Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Use; Condomless Sex

Treatments: Behavioral: Moon and Sun Brothers: A Community Prevention Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT07475702

2025-123

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this quasi-experimental, community intervention is to reduce HIV sexual risk among Latino immigrant bisexual men or men who have sex with men. The main questions the study aims to answer are:

Does the intervention improve sexual risk behaviors? Does the intervention increase self-esteem and social support? Are self-esteem and social support mediators in the link between the intervention and sexual risk? Researchers will compare information from the intervention versus control participants to answer the above questions.

Participants in the intervention arm will take part in:

• One day-long (8-hour) group retreat.
• Weekly discussion groups.
• Community events and civic engagement activities.
• Prevention counseling. Participants in the control arm will not be part of any activity.

Enrollment: 360 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Identify as male.
• Latino/x/e
• Report having sex with men only, or both men and women in the last 12 months.
• Speaks, reads/writes in Spanish.
• ≥18 years of age.
• Has access to a computer, laptop, tablet or smart phone device.
• Be willing to participate in the study.
• Be able to provide informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Populations younger than 18 years.
• Individuals who have participated in an Hermanos de Luna y Sol program in either the intervention or control group locations.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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360 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Community

Other group

Description:

Over the course of twelve months, study participants will participate in: 1) One day-long (8-hour) group retreat (dosage: 100%); 2) Weekly discussion groups (dosage: minimum of 50% of weekly sessions); 3) Community participation (dosage: minimum of 5 civic engagement activities; 50% of community events); and 4) Prevention counseling sessions (dosage: minimum of 1 session). Intervention participants will take part in all four components.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Moon and Sun Brothers: A Community Prevention Intervention

Control Community

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the control arm will be unexposed to the intervention components.