Clinical trials: Sexual Risk Behavior
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Men Together Making a Difference: Reducing HIV/STD Risk Behavior Among South African Men
Sub-Saharan Africa has about 10% of the world's population, but was home to more than 60% of all people living with HIV in 2003.
- Trial name
- NCT01490359
- Testing
- Men Making a Difference HIV/STD Risk Reduction Intervention, Health Promotion Control
- Volunteers
- 1,181 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
HIV Infections, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Evaluation of Many Men, Many Voices, An STD/HIV Prevention Intervention for Black MSM
The purpose of this program evaluation is to determine whether the "Many Men, Many Voices" HIV/STD prevention intervention is effective in reducing HIV sex risk behaviors and increasing HIV testing among African-American men who…
- Trial name
- 3MV (NCT00137631)
- Testing
- Many Men, Many Voices (3MV)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 341 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
HIV, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Reducing HIV Risk Among Adolescents: Evaluating Project HEART
This study evaluates an educational web-based intervention designed to increase adolescent girls' motivation and skills to engage in safer sexual behavior (Project HEART: Health Education and Relationship Training).
- Trial name
- NCT02579135
- Testing
- Safer Sex, Growth Mindsets
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 222 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- North Carolina State University
Risk Behavior, Drug Use
Couples Health Project: Couples-based Intervention to Reduce Drug Use and HIV Transmission Risk
This project tests the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of the Couples Health Project (CHP). CHP is a brief (3-session) couples-based Motivational Interviewing intervention which addresses drug use and sexual…
- Conditions
- Risk Behavior, Drug Use, Sex, Anal
- Trial name
- CHP (NCT03386110)
- Testing
- Couples Health Project (CHP), Education
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hunter College of City University of New York
College Drinking
A Multi-Component Alcohol and Sex Risk Intervention for College Students
Hazardous alcohol use, sexually transmitted infections, and sexual violence are interrelated and highly prevalent public health concerns in college student populations.
- Trial name
- SPLASH (NCT05180539)
- Testing
- SPLASH Intervention Condition, Control Condition
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 274 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Lehigh University
Sexual Behavior
Young Men and Media Study
Adolescent sexual minority males (ASMM) continue to account for a disproportionate number of HIV infections in the United States. Racial and ethnic minority populations are particularly affected.
- Trial name
- NCT04109443
- Testing
- Young Men & Media Program, Available websites on safe sex and preventing STIs
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 154 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston University
HIV Infections, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Efficacy of an Abstinence-Only HIV Risk-Reduction Intervention for Young African-American Adolescents
This study will develop and evaluate the effectiveness of culturally appropriate HIV/sexually transmitted disease risk-reduction interventions in reducing sexual risk behavior among young African-American adolescents.
- Trial name
- NCT00640653
- Testing
- Abstinence-only HIV/STD risk-reduction intervention, Safer-sex-only HIV/STD risk-reduction intervention, Long comprehensive HIV/STD risk-reduction intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 662 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Sexual Risk Behavior, Drug Use
eHealth Evidence-based Intervention (EBI) for Latino Youth in Primary Care
The purpose of this study is to test the relative effectiveness of a Hispanic-specific eHealth intervention, "e-Health Familias Unidas," in preventing and reducing drug use, sexual risk behaviors, and STIs among Hispanic youth in…
- Conditions
- Sexual Risk Behavior, Drug Use, Family Functioning
- Trial name
- NCT03009539
- Testing
- eHealth Familias Unidas Primary Care
- Where
- 12 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 921 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Miami
Feasibility
Microenterprise Intervention to Reduce Sexual Risk Behaviors in Young Adults
The study team will conduct a two-group study to examine the feasibility of implementing an enhanced microenterprise intervention to reduce sexual risk behaviors. The team will enroll approximately 40 young adults.
- Trial name
- EMERGE (NCT03766165)
- Testing
- Intervention, Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 38 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD)
Steering Together in a New Direction: Reducing the Risk of HIV/STD Among African American Men
African American men have by far the highest rates of HIV in the US, but there are few randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of interventions to dissuade heterosexually active African American men from engaging sexual risk…
- Trial name
- STAND (NCT02572401)
- Testing
- STAND HIV Risk Reduction Intervention, Text Messaging Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 391 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Health Risk Behaviors
Like Father Like Son
This purpose of this study is to look at the best way to offer the Like Father Like Son + Spear \& Shield program.
- Trial name
- NCT04119414
- Testing
- Spear and Shield (S&S) Program, Like Father Like Son (LFLS) Program
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 600 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Miami
HIV Infections, Sexually Transmitted Infections
Evaluation of the Healthy Love Workshop, an HIV Prevention Intervention for African American Women
The purpose of this program evaluation is to determine whether the Health Love Workshop, a group-level HIV behavioral intervention, reduces HIV-related sex risk behaviors and increases HIV protective behaviors of African American…
- Trial name
- NCT00362375
- Testing
- Healthy Love Workshop, HIV/AIDS 101 Workshop
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 313 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Violence, Domestic, Violence-Related Symptom
It's WeWomen Plus Intervention for Health, Safety and Empowerment
This study evaluates the impact of adaptive technology-based intervention (online, text and phone) "weWomenPlus" on safety, mental health and empowerment of abused immigrant women.
- Conditions
- Violence, Domestic, Violence-Related Symptom, Violence, Physical, Violence, Sexual
- Trial name
- IWWP (NCT04098276)
- Testing
- WeWomen Plus technology based intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,265 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
Substance Abuse, HIV Infections
Mirtazapine to Reduce Methamphetamine Use Among MSM With High-risk HIV Behaviors
Studies demonstrate that methamphetamine (meth) use is associated with high-risk sexual behavior among MSM, putting meth-using MSM at extraordinarily high risk for transmitting or acquiring HIV.
- Trial name
- NCT00497081
- Testing
- mirtazapine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- San Francisco Department of Public Health
Risk Reduction
PrEP Point-of-Care Brief-Intervention for Adherence Among Young Men Who Have Sex With Men
Despite advances in HIV prevention, the HIV incidence among young men who have sex with men (YMSM) is increasing, threatening to derail achievement of the United States End the HIV Epidemic goals.
- Trial name
- PrEP2-BAY (NCT05353283)
- Testing
- Motivational Interviewing Counselling, Point-of-care Urine Tenofovir Measurement
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 63 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
HIV Infections
The Risk of HIV Acquisition Among Traditional Healers in South Africa
Traditional healers, community-based partners with the national health system of South Africa, are exposed to patient blood an average of 1,500 times during their careers due to the practice of delivering herbal remedies via…
- Trial name
- NCT04440813
- Testing
- Education and Training by Clinicians, Training and Education from Traditional Healers and Clinicians
- Where
- South Africa
- Volunteers
- 136 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Violence, Domestic, Violence, Sexual
Dissemination and Implementation of a Web-based Relationship Safety App, myPlanKenya, for Women at Risk for Intimate Partner Violence in Nairobi, Kenya
This effectiveness-implementation hybrid-3 study evaluates dissemination, implementation, and effectiveness of myPlanKenya. myPlanKenya will be disseminated through formal and informal sectors.
- Conditions
- Violence, Domestic, Violence, Sexual, Violence, Gender-Based
- Trial name
- myPlanKenya (NCT05609786)
- Testing
- Personalized safety planning tool
- Where
- Kenya
- Volunteers
- 440 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Opioid Use, Opioid-use Disorder
Providing Suboxone and PrEP Using Telemedicine
The purpose of this study is to provide medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) with buprenorphine and naloxone, or bup/nx, and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention for persons who inject opioids accessing syringe…
- Conditions
- Opioid Use, Opioid-use Disorder, Risk Reduction, Hiv
- Trial name
- NCT04521920
- Testing
- Suboxone, PrEP
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 17 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Duke University
Methamphetamine-dependence, Rectal Gonorrhea
Inflammation in Methamphetamine and STIs (IMSTI)
This clinical trial aims to investigate the effects of a decline in methamphetamine use on rectal inflammatory cytokine levels, substance use contexts, and HIV/STI risk behavior.
- Conditions
- Methamphetamine-dependence, Rectal Gonorrhea, Rectal Chlamydia
- Trial name
- IMSTI (NCT05162391)
- Testing
- Contingency Management
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 59 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
Heavy Drinking and Sexual Risk Behavior
Alcohol and Sex Risk Intervention for MSM Supplement
Open pilot trial to test the feasibility and efficacy of a brief intervention with text messaging to reduce sexual risk behavior and heavy drinking among MSM
- Trial name
- NCT03522948
- Testing
- Brief intervention with text messaging to reduce sexual risk and heavy drinking among MSM
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 8 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston University Charles River Campus