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HIV prevention for women visiting their incarcerated partners: the HOME Project

CAPS and Centerforce, a community-based organization that has been providing services to prisoners and their families for thirty years, have been collaborating since 1993 to design and evaluate HIV prevention interventions for incarcerated men and their female partners. Our previous work with male prisoners includes the evaluation of a peer-led HIV education orientation for arriving prisoners; development and evaluation of a prerelease intervention for men leaving prison; development and evaluation of a health promotion intervention for HIV+ prisoners preparing for release;3 and a multi-site study to conduct formative research and develop and test an HIV, STD and hepatitis intervention for young men preparing for release from prison. Early in the course of these studies, men expressed a need for HIV prevention interventions specifically tailored for the needs of the women with whom they were in romantic and sexual relationships. In response, we conducted formative research with women visiting men imprisoned in a California state prison and we piloted a single session intervention designed for this population that was taught by a peer educator. Our formative work with women visiting incarcerated men indicated that it was feasible to engage women in intervention and research evaluation activities. However, a single-session intervention did not have a measurable effect on the HIV risk behavior of study participants. We decided to develop a multi-component intervention targeting the specific needs of women with incarcerated male partners. We designed and evaluated Health Options Mean Empowerment (HOME), an intervention to reduce HIV risk among women whose male partner was being released from state prison.

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National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day – September 27, 2016

This brochure lists research projects with gay men and helpful resources produced by CAPS/PRC. You might use it to:

  • Stay up-to-date on research and learn what we found out from research
  • Provide materials in trainings/presentations
  • Advocate for services/funding
  • Write grants
  • Develop new or modify existing HIV prevention programs
  • Evaluate current programs
  • Connect with CAPS/PRC to develop new projects.

Lead researchers (PIs) are listed for each study. Contact us below to connect. Questions? Comments? This brochure was prepared by the CAPS Community Engagement (CE) Core, which is previously known as the Technology and Information Exchange (TIE) Core.

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Spring 2011 [E-Newsletter]

In This Issue:
  • California budget cuts
  • Seroadaptation
  • Kenya, China
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Explanation of Consent Form standards by Committee of Human Research, UCSF

As part of the Committee on Human Research (CHR) process improvement project analysis, we discovered that poorly-prepared submissions negatively impacted the review and approval times of well-prepared submissions by diverting significant time and resources to a small fraction of poorly prepared submissions. Consequently, the CHR office is implementing consistent minimum submission standards. Instituting this new procedure will enable CHR staff to focus on well-prepared applications, resulting in faster reviews and approvals overall.
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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). This multi-level, multi-participant view is at the heart of systems thinking, a process of understanding how parts influence one another within a whole.