HIV Prevention in the Primary Care Setting
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Human Immunodeficiency Virus
In brief
In the third decade of the HIV pandemic, what was once a uniformly and rapidly fatal disease has been transformed into a chronic illness by advances in the understanding of HIV pathogenesis and therapeutics. As a result, HIV-infected individuals are living longer and better lives. This phenomenon, coupled with a continued steady rate of new HIV infections in this country, has led to the highest U.S. HIV prevalence rates since the beginning of the epidemic. In the past, HIV prevention efforts were separate from routine primary care delivery due to multiple factors including stigma and time constraints. Recent events, including increases in sexually transmitted disease (STD) rates among HIV-infected persons and evidence that infected individuals can be super-infected by HIV strains resistant to antiretroviral therapy, have inspired the SPNS program initiative to develop demonstration projects for interventions to reduce risky sexual exposures among HIV-infected patients receiving primary care.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00381524
- Run by
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- People needed
- 234
- Starts
- 2004-06-01
- Expected to finish
- 2007-06-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2017-06-12
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Active male patients over the age of 16 receiving routine primary care at the 1917 Clinic, reporting sexual contact with another man in the previous 6 months. Active patients will be defined as new patients (patients' first visit) with plans to continue follow-up at 1917 Clinic or an established patient seen at least once during the past year
- Willingness to follow-up for at least 18 months
- Ability to sign informed consent.
You may not qualify if…
- Female patient
- Male patient who is unwilling to follow-up for at least 18 months
- Male patient who is not a primary care patient at the clinic
- Unwillingness or inability to sign informed consent.
Where it is running
- UAB 1917 Clinic — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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