NCT01177995

Russian Labor Migrant HIV Prevention Trial

Fostering an AIDS Research and Training Center Infrastructure in Russia (Labor Migrant HIV Prevention Trial)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 207 (actual)
• Sponsor: Medical College of Wisconsin · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study is a randomized outcome trial of a social network HIV prevention intervention for at-risk labor migrants who have arrived in St. Petersburg, Russia, to seek work. Most come to St. Petersburg from Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, and other poor post-Soviet republics. While living in Russia, labor migrants are also living in a city and country with high HIV prevalence. Many labor migrants have limited awareness of AIDS, and most are living in a location far from their spouses, family members, and others. For that reason, labor migrants are vulnerable to risk behavior for contracting HIV. This study hypothesizes that members of labor migrant social networks whose network leaders are trained to deliver HIV prevention messages will exhibit greater reductions in sexual risk behavior (unprotected intercourse with nonspousal partners) from baseline to 3- and 12-month followup assessments than will members of social networks whose members receive standard, individual HIV risk reduction counseling alone.

Conditions

• HIV

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Social Network Intervention	Social network leaders will communicate HIV prevention messages to members of their social networks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-10-01
• Primary completion: 2011-09-01
• Completion: 2013-08-01
• First posted: 2010-08-09
• Last updated: 2013-08-23