NCT01291589

HIV Prevention in Very High Risk Men Who Have Sex With Men

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 14 (actual)
• Sponsor: Fenway Community Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to pilot test an innovative program development project in an open trial format an 8-session, individual, cognitive-behavioral therapy based, intervention on ten (10) HIV-infected men who have sex with men who report very high levels (\>10 episodes) of sexual transmission risk behavior (unprotected anal intercourse with serodiscordant partners).

Detailed description

This is an innovative program development project that will, over the next year, pilot test, in an open trial format an 8-session, individual, cognitive-behavioral therapy based, intervention on ten (10) HIV-infected men who have sex with men who report very high levels (\>10 episodes) of sexual transmission risk behavior (unprotected anal intercourse with serodiscordant partners). That is, to pilot test a novel prevention intervention designed to effect reductions in sexual transmission risk behavior among the riskiest men in the largest HIV risk group in the US. Effecting even modest reductions in the mean number of risk acts in this group will likely have substantial public health significance through the number of averted new HIV infections. Traditional secondary HIV intervention strategies (e.g., Information, Motivation, Behavior change (IMB)) models only have modest effects for HIV-positive MSM and there is evidence to suggest that these effects tend to diminish over time.

Conditions

• Risk Reduction Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive-behavioral therapy	Treatment will include elements from effective interventions for reducing risky sexual behaviors

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-11-01
• Primary completion: 2012-04-01
• Completion: 2012-09-01
• First posted: 2011-02-08
• Last updated: 2016-08-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States