Project ICARE: Intervening for Community Awareness, Respect, & Empowerment

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV Infections

Treatments: Behavioral: Project ICARE; Behavioral: HCT

Study type: Interventional

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

Identifiers

NCT00712088

CDC-NCHHSTP-5159

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project will test the efficacy of a behavioral intervention to reduce sexual risk for HIV infection among African American Men who Have Sex with Men (MSM).

Enrollment: 275 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Be 18 years of age or older;
• Self-identify as African American
• Understand and read English;
• Live within the Chicago area;
• Report at least two (male or female) sex partners in the past three months, and unprotected anal sex with at least one male sex partner in the past three months.

Exclusion criteria

• Have been diagnosed with HIV within the past three months (to allow for psychological and behavioral adjustment following an initial HIV diagnosis);
• Have a specific plan to move from the Chicago area within the next nine months;
• Report active injection drug use other than hormones or steroids.
• Participated in the intervention video or the pilot phase of this study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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275 participants in 2 patient groups

1: Group Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Group level intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Project ICARE

2: HCT

Active Comparator group

Description:

Offer of HIV counseling and testing

Treatment:

Behavioral: HCT