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Sponsor: Medical College of Wisconsin
Conditions: HIV Infections
Interventions: Social Support Mobilization, Individual Care Counseling
Countries: United States
The intervention study will recruit 100 out-of-care HIV+ men who have sex with men in online and in community settings located throughout St. Petersburg, Russia. After completing baseline assessments, participants will be randomized to either an individual care counseling (ICC) comparison condition or ICC plus a social support mobilization (SSM) intervention. In each intervention, participants will attend five main and two booster sessions that underscore the benefits of medical care engagement, counter the effects of internalized intersectional stigma and promote resilience, and help participants develop and mobilize social resources supportive of HIV care. Support mobilization will begin by assisting participants develop care-supportive bonds with other group members, friends who are also living with HIV, and connections made with LGBT and other non-governmental organizations. They will also be guided in developing and expanding supportive links with affirmative friends, family members, and other resources. In this way, the intervention will bolster care-related social support resources, resilience, and feelings of self-worth. Assessments administered at baseline will be repeated 6 and 12 months post-intervention, and in-depth followup interviews will be conducted with a subset of 20 participants to elicit feedback about the intervention experience. The study will investigate whether the SSM intervention will produce greater preliminary evidence of benefit on the primary outcome of medical care attendance in the past 6 months and on secondary outcomes of having undetectable viral load, ART adherence, and psychosocial well-being.
Sex: MALE
Age: 18 Years to —
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Inclusion Criteria: * age 18 or older * male at birth * reports being HIV-positive with no HIV medical care visit in the prior 6 months or adhering to \<95% of ART medication in the past month * reports a history of sex with males in the prior 12 months * not a participant in the earlier pilot test of the intervention Exclusion Criteria: * age 17 or younger * not male at birth * reports being HIV-negative or unknown HIV status * reports being HIV-positive with at least one HIV medical care visit in the prior 6 months or reports adherence to \>95% of prescribed ART in the past month * reports no history of sex with males in the prior 12 months * participation in the earlier pilot test of the intervention
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