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HIV Prevention Intervention for HIV-Positive Men in China

In China, sexual transmission has become the major driving force behind the HIV epidemic, accounting for more than half (52%) of the estimated 700,000 people currently living with HIV. Men who have sex with men (MSM) may contribute to the rapid acceleration of the epidemic throughout China.

Hombres gays Latinos en los Estados Unidos

¿Qué necesitan los hombres Latinos gay para la prevención del VIH en EE.UU.? Hoja informativa 28, marzo del 2012

Using Systems Thinking and Tools to Solve Public Health Problems

Public health researchers and practitioners often work to solve complex population and health issues, such as obesity and chronic disease, which are deeply embedded within the fabric of society. As such, the solutions often require intervention and engagement with key stakeholders and organizations across many levels ranging from local entities (schools, churches, and work environments) to regional systems (health departments and hospital networks) to entire countries (national agencies).

Eastern Caribbean Community Access Project: Increasing Access to HIV/AIDS Services through Evidence-Based Programming

In collaboration with the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance and Intrahealth, CAPS is working in four Eastern Caribbean countries to enhance the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The USAID-funded Eastern Caribbean Community Action Project (EC-CAP) supports prevention, development and use of strategic information, roll-out of community-based counseling and testing, and provision of care services (palliative and home based care).

Examining the impact of the HIV-related state budget cuts: Comparing Alameda, Fresno, and Los Angeles Counties

Problem: During  the  summer  of  2009,  the  State  of  California  experienced  an  unprecedented  budget  crisis,  resulting  in  cuts  to  social  services  across  the  state.  Approximately  $85  million  was  eliminated  from the budget of the State Office of AIDS  (OA)  for  FY  2009‐2010,  about  half  of  the  allocation of $167 million in FY 2008‐2009.

Health Information Technology Evaluation Center (HITEC)

HITEC is the evaluation center for the HRSA Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) Information Technology Networks of Care Initiative. Six demonstration sites are implementing electronic network systems to interconnect providers at different care locations. The goal of these systems is to promote health information exchange to improve the delivery, continuity, and quality of care to people living with HIV/AIDS who receive services in publicly-funded settings.

Improving Self-Reports about High-Risk Sexual Behavior

In this study we will conduct an experiment to test the effectiveness of an innovative method of administering a survey interview--conversational interviewing--in reducing respondents’ reporting errors in their responses to sexual behavior questions common in HIV/AIDS research.

Project Accept: …Community Mobilization, Mobile Testing, Same-Day Results, and Post-Test Support for HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa and Thailand

UCSF is one site of an NIMH-funded multi-site, international efficacy trial of a behavioral intervention to reduce the incidence of HIV infection. Collaborating international sites teamed with US sites are: Zimbabwe (S. Morin, UCSF PI), South Africa (T. Coates, UCLA PI), Tanzania (M. Sweat, Johns Hopkins University PI) and Thailand (D. Celantano, Johns Hopkins University PI).

ICOHRTA Brazilian Scientists Program [summary]

This project is an extension of the International Traineeships in AIDS Prevention Studies Program (I-TAPS) through a partnership with the Centro de Estudos de AIDS do Rio Grande do Sul (CEARGS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil and with the Universidade Federale do Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador, and funded by the Fogarty International Center.

Family-Based HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing in Patients at Risk for Tuberculosis

This study tests the efficacy of an intervention utilizing HIV rapid testing and integration of HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) into Tuberculosis (TB) evaluation and home-based VCT for family members, to overcome identified logistical and psychological barriers to HIV VCT among new TB patients and their family members. The specific aims of the study are: To determine the uptake of and barriers to HIV VCT among a cross-sectional sample of 2,000 TB evaluation patients offered s

IMPACT (Investigating Motivations for Participation in Anal Cancer Prevention Trials)

This project is designed to provide information that will be critical to the performance of a pivotal RCT of screening and treatment of anal intraepithelial neoplasia (AIN) to prevent anal cancer. This project will study determinants of participation in an RCT in which 50% of participants with AIN will be screened and treated, and 50% will be observed without treatment. At the end of a 5-year period, the number of anal cancer cases will be compared in both arms.

Impact of a Computer-Assisted SBIRT Program in an HIV Care Setting

Drug and alcohol use is not always addressed with patients in medical care settings, including HIV primary care settings. The screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) strategy has demonstrated an effective model to introduce screening for substance use, and standardized guidelines in a number of clinical populations, but SBIRT for drug and alcohol use has not been tested in an HIV primary care setting.

International Travel Research to Inform Prevention (I-TRIP)

I-TRIP studies sexual risk behavior in the context of international travel among gay and bisexual men from the San Francisco Bay Area. The specific aims are: To measure the prevalence of sexual risk behavior during international travel among gay and bisexual men from the Bay Area. To document the prevalence of ART drug resistance among gay and bisexual international travelers from the Bay Area.

Measuring Coalition Functioning: Refining Constructs Through Factor Analysis

Internal and external coalition functioning is an important predictor of coalition success that has been linked to perceived coalition effectiveness, coalition goal achievement, coalition ability to support evidence-based programs, and coalition sustainability. Understanding which aspects of coalition functioning best predict coalition success requires the development of valid measures of empirically unique coalition functioning constructs.

Spring 2011 [E-Newsletter]

In This Issue: California budget cuts Seroadaptation Kenya, China

HIV Prevention among Township Men Who Have Sex with Men in South Africa

This project has two aims: 1 To describe collective and individual belief systems of low-income township men who have sex with men (MSM) related to their sexuality, sexual health, choice of sexual partners, use of drugs and alcohol, use of condoms, utilization of health services, HIV voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) and disclosure of HIV status, in order to describe prevailing cultural norms around these subjects’ behaviors To assess the prevalence of HIV risk factors an

Testing & link to care

Can HIV testing plus linking HIV+ people to care and treatment reduce HIV transmission? Why is this an important question? Despite major progress against HIV, 21% of HIV+ people in the US are unaware that they are positive1 and an estimated 33% of those who know they are HIV+ are not engaged in care and treatment for their infection.2 Another 38% of newly diagnosed HIV+ individuals test so late that they receive an AIDS diagnosis at the same time as,

Testing & link to care

Despite major progress against HIV, 21% of HIV+ people in the US are unaware that they are positive and an estimated 33% of those who know they are HIV+ are not engaged in care and treatment for their infection.Another 38% of newly diagnosed HIV+ individuals test so late that they receive an AIDS diagnosis at the same time as, or within one year of, learning they are positive. There were an estimated 56,300 new HIV infections per year between 1996 and 2006.