This is a pilot study with a cross-sectional research design to recruit Hispanic/Latina and African American adolescent and young adult women, aged 13-24 years to serve as index recruiters, who will in turn recruit members of her female friendship network, aged 13 years and older to undergo HIV screening. This approach seeks to identify new HIV infections in the target population.
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Number of young women (HIV status positive, negative, or unknown) who are identified and recruited to serve as index recruiters divided by the number of young women screened.
Timeframe: 2
Proportion of index recruiters who recruit two or more of their female, friendship network members to undergo HIV screening.
Timeframe: 2 years
A description of factors that facilitate and hinder index recruiters in recruiting female friendship network members.
Timeframe: 2 years
A description of factors that facilitate and hinder HIV screening among female friendship network members.
Timeframe: 2 years
A preliminary estimate of HIV infection prevalence among the friendship networks of all index recruiters and separately in the friendship networks of each group of index recruiters.
Timeframe: 2 years