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Social Network Intervention to Engage Community PLH to Engage in HIV Medical Care

CompletedNA

Sponsor: Medical College of Wisconsin

Conditions: Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV/AIDS

Interventions: Social Network Training, Single Care-Related Counseling Session and Referral to Care

Countries: United States

People living with HIV infection (PLH) are clustered in friendship groups with other HIV+ persons, and an intervention delivered to all members of PLH social networks allows HIV+ people who are friends in day-to-day life to provide one another with support for entering, remaining, and adhering to HIV medical care. Moreover, an intervention delivered to groups attended by HIV+ persons who are friends increases HIV medical care engagement and decreases problem drinking more than individual counseling, probably because the network intervention harnessed mutual peer social support among friends who share the same HIV status, face similar coping issues, and interact together in day-to-day life. The planned research will be conducted in two phases in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Eligibility overview

Sex: ALL

Age: 18 Years to —

Healthy volunteers: No

Study type: INTERVENTIONAL

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

* Age 18 or older;
* Self-report as being HIV-positive, with positive HIV status confirmed in study-provided testing;
* Except for initial seeds, must be named by an already-enrolled participant as a PLH friend; and
* Do not plan to move from the St. Petersburg, Russia, area for the next 18 months.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Age 17 or younger;
* Self-report as HIV-negative or HIV-positive serostatus is not confirmed by testing;
* Not be named as a PLH friend by an already-enrolled participant; and
* Intend to move from the St. Petersburg, Russia, area during the next 18 months.

Locations (1)

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States