The Brooklyn Community United (BCU) study is a supplement to the main research study titled "Peer Driven Intervention to Seek, Test, \& Treat Heterosexuals at High Risk for HIV." The main study's field name is Brooklyn Community Action Project (BCAP) (R01DA032083, R#: 11-01257). The main study is testing two approaches to seeking out undiagnosed HIV infection (Venue-based Sampling (VBS) and Confidential Two-Session Testing with Navigation (CTTN-RDS)). HIV prevalence rates in two previous heterosexual cycles of NHBS in the local area are: 7% in HET1 and 12.3% in HET2. The main study, BCAP, found lower prevalence rates of 3.45%, 35.14% of which were newly diagnosed in the RDS-CTTN sample and 1.89% newly diagnosed with HIV in the VBS sample. The primary aim of the Brooklyn Community United (BCU) study is to seek out individuals with undiagnosed HIV using a streamlined RDS-CTTN approach, and anonymous HIV Testing in Central Brooklyn. The supplement study hypotheses are: (H1): Compared with VBS and RDS-CTTN, and controlling for potential differences on key socio-demographic characteristics across the samples, RDS-ASTN participants will have less HIV testing experience. (H2) Controlling for potential differences on key socio-demographic characteristics across the samples, RDS-ASTN will yield higher rates previously undiagnosed HIV compared with VBS and RDS-CTTN. (H3): Most participants (\> 70%) found to be HIV-infected in the RDS-ASTN intervention will engage in the Treat and Retain intervention phase. (H4): Most participants in the Treat and Retain phase of the RDS-ASTN intervention (\> 70%), all of whom will be HIV infected, will be linked to care within 3 months.
Age range
18 Years – 60 Years
Sex
ALL
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proportion of newly diagnosed HIV infections
Timeframe: 1 week post-baseline