Pilot of Mpowerment for Young Men Who Have Sex With Men (YMSM) in Beirut

RanD

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV

Treatments: Behavioral: Mpowerment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02918799

2014-0992

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project will adapt and pilot a multi-level, community-based intervention to promote HIV prevention and sexual health among young men who have sex with men in Beirut.

Full description

Mpowerment (MP) is an evidence-based community-level, structural, social and behavioral intervention for HIV prevention developed for YMSM that targets individual and community empowerment and mobilization, self-affirmation, sexual self-knowledge, and creation of a supportive social environment. MP has been widely used in the U.S., but not in a mostly Muslim setting. This project will adapt and pilot MP for the sociocultural issues facing YMSM (age 18-29) in Beirut. There will be a 2-year pilot implementation of MP, with longitudinal cohorts of YMSM in Beirut and Jounieh, the latter being the control community. Primary outcomes will be unprotected anal sex and HIV testing, with secondary outcomes being engagement in peer outreach, and perceived peer norms related to condom use and HIV testing.

Enrollment: 226 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 29 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• men aged 18-29, who have had anal sex with men in the past 6 months

Exclusion criteria

• not residing in Lebanon

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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226 participants in 1 patient group

Community cohort

Other group

Description:

Beirut community will receive the multi-component intervention Mpowerment; the community cohort of YMSM will be used to evaluate the effects of the intervention on the community, as the cohort participants may or may not have participated in the intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mpowerment