There have been few attempts to monitor the risk behaviors and HIV seroprevalence among the general population. Understanding the HIV epidemic in Los Angeles requires establishing an integrated, multilevel surveillance system for HIV, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and the Hepatitis C virus (HCV). Information about sexual and substance use risk behaviors, HIV seroprevalence, and public […]
Homeless, stimulant-using gay/bisexual men and transgender women are at high risk for hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and HIV infection due to high rates of injection drug use and high-risk sexual behaviors. Thus, use of stimulants threatens to intensify homeless persons’ risk of exposure to hepatitis B, C viruses and HIV; therefore, […]
A number of studies have informed us about the substantial risk for HIV associated with chronic homelessness among youth in both the U.S. and Australia, even though these studies have typically been cross-sectional or samples of convenience. To understand the high seroprevalence rates among older homeless youth, the developmental trajectories into and out of risk […]
Interventions, Training Manuals, etc. : [download id=”11957″] [download id=”11959″] [download id=”11961″] Homelessness is a significant problem plaguing American cities and homeless substance abusers face increased risks. Homeless, gay and bisexual male abusers suffer approximately 80% seroprevalence and often engage in exchange sex and resist treatment for substance abuse. Contingency management interventions, which provide positive incentives […]
Interventions, Training Manuals, etc. : [download id=”11981″] [download id=”11983″] The G.U.Y.S. Program offers a multi-tier health education/risk reduction (HE/RR) intervention – utilizing both individual and group-level interventions – designed to reduce high-risk sexual and drug behaviors among homeless, substance-using gay men and non-gay identified men who have sex with other men, and with women, and […]
Targeted Risk Group: Urban Ugandan youth (UYDEL) Street Smart was an intensive HIV/AIDS program for slum youths whose behaviors place them at risk of becoming HIV infected. It was implemented in collaboration with Uganda Youth Development Link. Based on the fact that adolescence is a time of experimentation and developmental change in behavior, thoughts and […]
The STRIVE program aimed to improve residential stability and the quality of residential life, reduce the number of runaway episodes, as well as reduce HIV-related sexual and substance use risk acts. Family conflict is found to cause runaway episodes for youth. Targeting newly homeless youth, this study developed and implemented a 5-session family-based intervention. STRIVE […]
Runaway and homeless youth have a national seroprevalence rate of 2.3%, a rate about six times higher than adolescents in the major AIDS epicenters. Links to Interventions, Training Manuals, etc. : [download id=”11917″] [download id=”11913″] [download id=”11224″] [download id=”11266″] [download id=”11915″] [download id=”11244″] [download id=”11246″] [download id=”11248″] [download id=”11250″] [download id=”11252″] [download id=”11256″] [download id=”11258″] […]
Choosing Life Empowerment Action Results is a behavioral change research project being implemented by Uganda Youth development Link (UYDEL) in collaboration with support from University of California, Los-Angeles. It is a result project known as CLEAR tried in the USA in the cities of Los Angeles and New York by the Center for Community Health […]
Youth LIGHT was a study to address critical gaps in research on HIV/AIDS prevention with high risk youth, offering an opportunity to shift patterns of sexual risk behaviors among delinquent youth at risk of becoming HIV seropositive adults. An intervention with established efficacy for high risk adults, Project LIGHT, was adapted for high risk adolescents. […]