“Straight Talk” for African American heterosexual men: Results of a single-arm behavioral intervention trial

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• Alternative Title:
  AIDS Care
• Personal Author:
  FRYE, Victoria ; HENNY, Kirk ; BONNER, Sebastian ; WILLIAMS, Kim ; BOND, Keosha T. ; HOOVER, Donald R. ; LUCY, Debbie ; GREENE, Emily ; KOBLIN, Beryl A.
• Corporate Authors:
  Straight Talk Study Team
• Description:
  In the United States, heterosexual transmission is the second leading cause of HIV/AIDS, and two-thirds of all heterosexually acquired cases diagnosed between 2005 and 2008 occurred among African-Americans. Few HIV prevention interventions have been designed specifically for African-American heterosexual men not seeking clinical treatment. Here we report results of a single-arm intervention trial of a theory-based HIV prevention intervention designed to increase condom use, reduce concurrent partnering and increase HIV testing among heterosexually active African-American men living in high HIV prevalence areas of New York City. We tested our hypothesis using McNemar discordant pairs exact test for binary variables and paired t-tests for continuous variables. We observed statistically significant declines in mean number of total and new female partners, unprotected sex partners, and partner concurrency in both primary and nonprimary sex partnerships between baseline and 3 months postintervention.
• Subjects:
  Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Adult Black Or African American Condoms Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Health Promotion Heterosexuality HIV Infections Humans Intervention Studies Male Pilot Projects Risk Reduction Behavior Sexual Partners

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• Source:
  AIDS Care. 25(5):627-631.
• Pubmed ID:
  23005899
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3693736
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  1-UR6/PS-000667-01/PS/NCHHSTP CDC HHS/United States ; K01 DA-020774/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States ; K01 DA020774/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States ; T32 DA031099/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  New York City, NY
• Volume:
  25
• Issue:
  5
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:587efd5e93e2aa3388cef944a055495d32edef1b9152f2c9a5db3e988ee3ddd7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/33587/cdc_33587_DS1.pdf
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