Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS)

Status unconfirmed

Conditions studied: HIV Infections

In brief

This is a comprehensive observational study of HIV infection in homosexual and bisexual men.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00046280

Run by

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

People needed

7087

Starts

1984-04-01

Expected to finish

2020-04-30

Last updated by the study team

2019-07-18

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• HIV negative, or
• HIV positive and no history or current use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), or
• HIV positive HAART recipient with documentation of HAART initiation, no AIDS diagnosis prior to HAART initiation, and a CD4 cell count and HIV-1 RNA measurement within 6 months prior to first HAART use.
• Sexual intercourse with men or at least 5 male or female partners in the 5 years prior to enrollment.

You may not qualify if…

• Injection drug use within 1 year of enrollment.
• Perinatally acquired HIV infection.

Where it is running

• Public Health Center — Los Angeles, California, United States
• CORE Health Center — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Johns Hopkins School of Public Health — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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