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Project Access: Barriers to HIV Counseling and Testing, and the Prevention Strategies of Drug Users Community

Project Access is a qualitative study of barriers to HIV counseling and testing, and the personal HIV prevention strategies of drug users. Main Findings: Drug users’ risk behavior was not directly related to the number of times they had previously tested for HIV. Personal prevention strategies and HIV testing patterns are shaped by public health messages, institutional practices, and the concrete realities of living and surviving in impoverished communities. Many l

Study of HIV Sexual Risk among Disenfranchised African American MSM Community

HIV transmission is disproportionately on the rise among economically poor, African American men who have sex with men (MSM) in the United States . Although this trend has been observed for over a decade, prevention efforts have apparently been unable to adequately address the needs of this population.

Habilitando a los Jóvenes

La escena: San Francisco; la época: 1989. El STOP AIDS Project acaba de cerrar sus puertas porque los cambios generalizados en la conducta de la comunidad gay han originado una marcada reducción en las infecciones de VIH.

Hermanos de Luna y Sol

An Empowerment HIV Prevention Program for Spanish-Speaking Latino Gay/Bisexual Men Latino gay/bisexual men in the U.S. have been highly and disproportionately affected by the AIDS epidemic.

Hombres heterosexuales

¿Qué necesita el hombre heterosexual en la prevención del VIH? revisado 4/01 ¿está el hombre heterosexual en riesgo? Sí. En los EEUU los casos nuevos de SIDA reflejan un incremento en las infecciones por uso de drogas intravenosas (UDI) y por contacto sexual heterosexual.1 El aumento de infecciones en hombres heterosexuales por UDI ha elevado los casos de VIH en las mujeres ya que más mujeres se están infectando al tener sexo con hombres UDI.

Barrier methods

Can Barrier Methods Help in HIV Prevention? Why barrier methods? Barrier methods are a relatively low-cost, accessible and important part of the pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention landscape. Barrier methods can be physical or chemical substances which prevent pregnancy and/or block the spread of STDs including HIV. They do not include hormonal contraceptive methods.

Gay men (MSM)

What are men who have sex with men’s (MSM) HIV prevention needs? What do MSM need? Men who have sex with men (MSM) are not a single homogenous group, but represent a wide variety of people, lifestyles and health needs. From middle class gay men, to homeless runaways, to injection drug users (IDUs) to incarcerated men, MSM have many different identities and associated risks for HIV and other infectious diseases.

The San Francisco Department of Public Health and AIDS Research Institute/UCSF Response to the Updated Estimates of HIV Infection in San Francisco, 2000

There have been many reactions to the release of preliminary data suggesting a significant increase in HIV incidence in San Francisco. Many are alarmed, some are saddened, and more than a few have a great deal of anger. The one reaction nobody has had is surprise. While a few don’t like the numbers and will argue about the analysis of them, there has been little shock that there appears to be a range of 750 – 900 new infections this year.

Collaborative HIV Prevention Research in Minority Communities

HIV has spread dramatically in minority communities, with African Americans currently being five times as likely as whites to contract HIV, and the disproportion continues to increase. Historically, few minority investigators have been funded by the NIH. Culturally appropriate measurements and methods are needed to successfully involve respondents and accurately measure their beliefs, values, and behaviors.

International HIV Prevention Research at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California San Francisco

The principal objective of the International Core at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) is to facilitate high quality international research by creating effective and productive partnerships between CAPS scientists and HIV prevention researchers from developing countries.

Stress and Coping in Gay Male Caregivers of Men with AIDS

Traditionally, responsibility for providing care in the home for people with serious illness has fallen to women as wives, mothers, or daughters of the afflicted individual. Among the many societal repercussions of the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been the creation of a new group of caregivers—gay men who are the primary caregivers for their partners with AIDS.

Systematic Reviews Demystified: Conducting Systematic Reviews on HIV Infection and AIDS

Physicians, researchers, public health practitioners and patients are deluged with unmanageable amounts of information about the best approaches to prevention, treatment and health care delivery. Over the last 30 years, there has been an exponential rise in the number of published scientific articles across health fields.

The Legacy Project: Lessons Learned About Conducting Community-Based Research

Since 1991, the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) has conducted collaborative research with local community-based HIV prevention organizations within a consortium model. Community-based research (CBR) refers to research that is conducted by or with the participation of community members. As conducted by CAPS, CBR was a full partnership, with the CBO partner taking the lead on developing the research question, delivering the intervention, and collecting the data.

The Voluntary HIV-1 Counseling and Testing Efficacy Study: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Three Developing Countries

The Voluntary HIV-1 Counseling and Testing Efficacy Study was designed to measure the efficacy of HIV VCT in developing country and resource poor settings where access to antiretrovirals and other expensive medications is difficult or impossible.

Discovering Global Success: Future Directions for HIV Prevention in the Developing World

The National Institutes of Health’s Fogarty International Center in collaboration with a number of other agencies sponsored the Fogarty Workshop on International HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Opportunities on April 18-20, 1998. The AIDS Research Institute at the University of California, San Francisco hosted the Workshop.

Report Back from the MSM IDU Forum

This forum grew out of an interest in having dialogues between researchers, providers and community members (these categories are not mutually exclusive groups). This would serve the dual purpose of giving research legs so that it can inform programs and helping ensure that program and life experience inform research studies. Another factor for calling this meeting was the high prevalence of HIV among men who have sex with men and are also injection drug users (MSM IDUs).

Designing Primary Prevention for People Living with HIV

This monograph is based largely on presentations and discussion at the June, 1999 policy forum Primary HIV Prevention: Designing Effective Programs for People Living with HIV. The Forum was hosted by the AIDS Research Institute at UCSF and the National Association of People with AIDS. The Forum was sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the NIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Great HIV Prevention Campaigns Are Not Just Born The Convergence of Research and Service in the Making of the “Families Change, Families Grow” Campaign

When the latest HIV prevalence consensus report was released in San Francisco in 1997, statistics revealed increasing HIV rates among gay and bisexual men of color. Among gay men of color, Latinos had the highest rates of HIV infection. In response to this, the STOP AIDS Project decided to heighten their HIV prevention efforts for Latino gay and bisexual men. STOP AIDS convened a meeting for all of the agencies in San Francisco providing HIV prevention services for Latino gay and bisexual men.

Partnership Perspectives

In an effort to equip community and institutional leaders from the health professions with the skills and knowledge to sustain community-campus partnerships, we are pleased to provide you with a copy of Partnership Perspectives-a magazine designed to foster greater awareness of critical issues impacting upon partnerships between communities and health professions schools.

Project Explore

Explore is a nationwide HIV prevention behavioral trial involving nearly 4,300 men who have sex with men.