HIV/AIDS Prevention
Conditions
Keywords
HIV/AIDS, sex work, reproductive health, human rights, ethics
Brief summary
This study will implement a socio-behavioral intervention in Quezon City, the Philippines, using a community-based participatory approach. The intervention involves 1-2 psychosocial and health education training workshops for the establishment managers and their workers, focusing on HIV/AIDS risk reduction information and condom use and condom negotiation skill-building. Participants will also be invited to do dream-building activities that explore their personal goals and goals for their organization of peers.
Detailed description
This study will implement a socio-behavioral intervention in Quezon City, the Philippines, using a community-based participatory approach. The intervention involves 1-2 psychosocial and health education training workshops for the establishment managers and their workers, focusing on HIV/AIDS risk reduction information, condom use, and condom negotiation skill-building. Participants will also be invited to do dream-building activities that explore their personal goals and goals for their organization of peers. The intervention involves targeted and tailored bio-psycho-educational interventions directed at organizational behavior change and social influence modeling through training peers and managers. The intervention site will receive peer and manager trainings consisting of specific information on STIs along with standard care, held on a day convenient to the participants and at the establishment or neutral location. In addition to quick pre-post tests before and immediately after the intervention, participants will be interviewed 6-12 months after the intervention to evaluate the effects of the intervention on their STI/HIV knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, safer sex practices, and social support.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALHIV/STI intervention
The intervention covers HIV101 information, reproductive health and human rights national policies, goal setting activities as individuals and as a group, results of prior research on ethics of doing research with sex workers.
Sponsors
University of California, Los Angeles
Center for Environment and Sustainable Development Foundation, Inc.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
The Fordham University HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute (RETI)
University of California, San Diego
San Diego State University
Lianne Urada
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* self-identification as conducting sex work or working in a venue where sex work occurs.
Exclusion criteria
* those not actively engaging in sex work activities or working in a venue or area where sex work occurs.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| HIV/STI knowledge | 6 months | Knowledge of HIV/STI transmission and ways to protect oneself |
Countries
Philippines
Outcome results
None listed