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A Structural Intervention to Promote Women's Health
*A Structural Intervention to Integrate Reproductive Health into HIV Care
*Love, Marriage, and HIV: Gender and HIV Risk
Distribution of Resources and Gendered Power
Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network: NY/Long Island Region
*Anal Sex Practices among South African Women and Men 
*Female Condom Promotion among South African Students
Health-Related Interventions for Persons Living with HIV
HIV Risk Among Migrant Entertainment Industry Workers in Eastern China 
HIV/STI Prevention for Drug-Involved Couples
Increasing Dual Protection among Low-Income Minority Women
STD/HIV Risk Reduction for African American Couples
*Training Service Providers in Dual Protection Counseling in China
* denotes international research

 

 

GENDER-SPECIFIC INTERVENTIONS FOR WOMEN AND THEIR MALE PARTNERS

Grant Title: HIV/STD Prevention for Drug-Involved Couples

Funding Source and Project Period: NIDA, R01; 2004 - 2009

Collaborating Institutions and Key Personnel:

HIV Center:
Principal Investigator: Nabila El-Bassel, D.S.W. (Columbia University School of Social Work
Co-Principal Investigator: Robert Remien, Ph.D.

Project Overview: Heterosexual transmission accounts for the fastest growing risk group of people with HIV/AIDS and is the chief mode of affection among women in the United States. Research has shown that there is a continued low rate of condom use among heterosexuals in established relationships. Young adult crack/cocaine and heroin abusing patients and their primary sexual partners rank among those at highest risk for heterosexual HIV/STI transmission. A growing body of research, including recent randomized clinical trials, has found that couple-based approaches to HIV risk reduction are efficacious in increasing condom use. This study is testing the efficacy of a couple-based HIV/STI prevention intervention to increase condom use and reduce sexually transmitted infections among heroin or crack/cocaine abusing, outpatient drug treatment or methadone maintenance patients, aged 18-35, and their main heterosexual partners, who are both HIV negative and report risk of sexually-acquired HIV. We are enrolling 450 index participants, aged 18 to 35, recruited from an MMTP or outpatient drug treatment program for crack/cocaine and/or heroin abuse, and their main heterosexual partners and who will report having had unprotected sex and at least one risk factor for HIV in the past 90 days. The index participants and their main heterosexual partners are randomized to one of three conditions: a 7-session couple-based HIV/STI risk reduction intervention (CSTI) provided to the index participant and her/his main partner; a 7-session couple-based stress reduction intervention (CSR) provided to the index participant and her/his main partner, which will serve as a attention control condition; and a 7-session individual HIV/STI risk reduction intervention (ISTI) provided to the index participant alone, which will serve as a comparison condition.

Update: 5/26/05

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