Evaluation of a Socio-cultural Intervention to Reduce Unprotected Sex for HIV among African American/Black Women

African American/Black (Black) women suffer disproportionately to other women from HIV. An HIV prevention intervention combining two previous evidenced-based intervention programs; "Coping with Work and Family Stress" and "Hip Hop 2 Prevent Substance Abuse and HIV", was evaluated in a diverse sample of Black women (n = 205). 

Study participants at ten recruitment sites were assigned non-randomly to either the intervention or comparison group and then surveyed at baseline, immediate posttest, and 6-month follow-up. General Estimating Equation modeling revealed that participants in the comparison group reported less unprotected sex at immediate post-test and the intervention group less unprotected sex at 6-month follow-up. 

Despite the initial drop in reported unprotected sex in the comparison group, this study suggests that an HIV risk reduction intervention tailored to address Black women's socio-cultural stress and enhance their coping may reduce their unprotected sex at 6-months.

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By: Boekeloo B1, Geiger T2, Wang M2, Ishman N3, Quinton S3, Allen G3, Ali B2, Snow D4.

• 1Department of Behavioral and Community Health, University of Maryland School of Public Health, Building #255 Valley Drive, College Park, MD, 20742, USA. boekeloo@umd.edu.
• 2Department of Behavioral and Community Health, University of Maryland School of Public Health, Building #255 Valley Drive, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.
• 3Strategic Community Services, Inc,, Lanham, MD, 20706, USA.
• 4Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology & Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA. 

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