Nationally and locally Blacks and Latinos have the highest incidences of HIV/AIDS. When stratifying incidence by gender, Blacks and Latino women have higher rates of HIV infection compared to their White counterparts. A recent “mainstream” hypothesis for the rise in numbers among minority women is that Black and Latino men in concurrent secret sexual relationships […]
Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this project is a collaboration between In The Meantime Men’s Group, Inc. (ITMT) and Los Angeles County Department of Public Health HIV Epidemiology Program. The objectives of the project are to recruit and enroll 530 African American MSM, ages 18-29 years, for a randomized controlled […]
The majority of new HIV infections across Los Angeles County continue to be found among men who have sex with other men (MSM). Within MSM, stimulant abuse, particularly methamphetamine abuse, is the major factor in driving new infections, primarily via behavioral disinhibition contributing MSM methamphetamine users to engage in extremely high-risk sexual transmission behaviors. Friends […]
PQUAD is a pilot project to evaluate the acceptability, safety, and feasibility of delivering community-based HIV post-exposure prophylaxis in diverse Los Angeles County communities. It is a joint venture of UCLA, the Los Angeles Office of AIDS Programs and Policy (OAPP), the Department of Public Health Sexually Transmitted Disease Program, AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), […]
To ascertain the feasibility and acceptability of an intervention among Black men who have sex with men (MSM), to prepare for a community-level randomized trial to test the efficacy of the intervention in reducing HIV incidence among Black MSM. Approximately 2136 “first wave” participants (267 per site at eight sites) and approximately 400 referred partners […]
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 […]
This is a qualitative study of knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and perceived barriers to implementation of biomedical prevention strategies among MSM in metropolitan Los Angeles, California. Three focus groups comprised of sixteen unique individual participants were conducted at the UCLA Center for Clinical AIDS Research and Education between April 2008 and June 2008. Additionally, five key […]
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, […]
SATH-CAP stands for the Sexual Acquisition and Transmission of HIV Cooperative Agreement Program. The overall goal of SATH-CAP is to better understand how patterns of sexual and drug use behaviors along with other social and environmental factors, such as other sexually transmitted diseases, places where people gather for sex and drug activities, and types of […]
Gay and bisexual males who use methamphetamine are at extremely high risk for HIV infection. Methamphetamine use in this population is highly associated with risky sexual behavior, with users of the drug reporting an increased number of sexual partners, decreased use of condoms, and an increased likelihood of being HIV-infected or having a sexually transmitted […]