A Comprehensive Approach to Secondary HIV Prevention and Care Among Positives
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- HIV
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Enrollment
- 632
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- change in HIV medication adherence
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 7 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The goal of this study is to conduct an HIV prevention intervention to train HIV seropositive drug users to be peer health educators.
Detailed Description
The primary objective of this funded research is to conduct an HIV prevention intervention to train HIV seropositive drug users to be peer health educators to: (1) recruit their high risk social network members for voluntary HIV counseling and testing (VCT) at the research clinic, (2) promote risk reduction among social network members, and (3) promote engagement in HIV care by encouraging HIV seropositive network members to schedule and keep HIV primary care appointments. There will be four types of participants in the Full Trial: 1) Index, 2) Testing Network 3) Longitudinal Network and 4) HIV positive network participants. This longitudinal study includes baseline, 6-months, and 12-month assessments
Investigators
Carl Latkin
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •18 years old or older
- •documentation of HIV positive status
- •report one of following risk behaviors in past 90 days: sharing injection equipment, use of crack cocaine, or unprotected vaginal or anal sex
- •Testing network
- •18 or older
- •provided testing coupon provided by an index participant
- •Longitudinal network participant-
- •tested HIV negative at the Lighthouse via redeeming a testing coupon
- •reported interacting with index who gave the coupon at least weekly
- •report one of following risk behaviors in the prior 90 days: sharing injection equipment, use of crack cocaine, or unprotected vaginal or anal sex
Exclusion Criteria
- •Index- already enrolled in the study as a Network participant
- •Testing network- already enrolled in the study as a Network participant
- •Longitudinal network- a) already enrolled in the study as a Network participant b) already enrolled in the study as a Index participant
- •Positive network- a) already enrolled in the study as a Network participant b) already enrolled in the study as a Index participant
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
change in HIV medication adherence
Time Frame: 6 month
change in frequency in attending HIV medical appointments
Time Frame: 6 month
Secondary Outcomes
- change in sharing injection equipment(6 month)
- change in condom use(6 month)