Latino Migrant Men: sex/drug networks and HIV/STI risk/resilience

拉丁裔移民男性：性/毒品网络和艾滋病毒/性传播感染风险/复原力

• 批准号: 8012587
• 负责人: Patricia J Kissinger
• 金额: $ 22.35万
• 依托单位: TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8012587
• 关键词: Alcohols; Antibiotics; Behavior; Behavioral; Biological; Biological Testing; Characteristics; Chlamydia; Cohort Studies; Communities; Crack Cocaine; Data; Detection; Drug usage; Drug user; Ego; Enrollment; Environment; Environmental Risk Factor; Epidemic; Female; Future; Goals; Gonorrhea; HIV; HIV Infections; HIV/STD; Human immunodeficiency virus test; Individual; Infection; Influentials; Injection of therapeutic agent; Intervention; Interview; Latino; Lead; Maps; Measurement; Measures; Methods; Migrant Workers; Multiple Partners; Nomads; Parents; Participant; Persons; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Phase; Probability; Process; Prospective Studies; Prostitution; Public Health; Recruitment Activity; Relaxation; Reporting; Research; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Scientist; Screening procedure; Sexual Partners; Site; Social Environment; Social Network; Street Drugs; Surveys; Syphilis; System; Targeted Research; Techniques; Work; binge drinking; cohort; condoms; density; follow-up; high risk behavior; member; men; non-drug; prevent; public health relevance; resilience; sex; social; transmission process; trend; willingness

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Scientists now recognize that the probability of HIV infection is influenced by social, structural and environmental processes that influence individual behavior and vulnerability to infection and that networks are an important part of the risk/resilience environment. Measurement of network characteristics is key to understanding the potential for an epidemic to occur in any group and to identifying intervention points, yet to date, sociometric network studies of Latino migrants are lacking. The goal of this research is to explore the mechanisms of HIV/STI risk/resilience among Latino migrant men in a pre-epidemic phase, with a focus on the effects of the social environment, in particular, drug and sex networks. There are three specific aims: Aim 1: To describe facilitators and obstacles to conducting network informed research among Latino migrant workers to inform future larger studies, Aim 2: To describe the configuration, HIV infection status, geospatial, contextual, and behavioral characteristics of the risk networks of Latino migrant men who do and do not use drugs, and Aim 3: To examine the contribution of drug and sexual networks on the HIV risk and resiliency of migrant workers. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This study will pioneer the use of sociometric risk analysis among Latino migrant workers in a new receiving community to examine their risk and resilience for HIV/STI and drug use. Should this technique be both feasible and useful, our data will provide essential pilot and a road map for conducting sociometric research for this target group and other migrant groups in pre-HIV epidemic phases.

描述(由申请人提供)：科学家现在认识到，艾滋病毒感染的可能性受到影响个人行为和感染脆弱性的社会、结构和环境过程的影响，网络是风险/复原力环境的重要组成部分。网络特征的测量是了解在任何群体中发生流行病的可能性和确定干预点的关键，但到目前为止，缺乏对拉丁裔移民的社会计量网络研究。这项研究的目标是探讨拉美裔移民男子在流行前阶段艾滋病毒/性传播感染风险/复原力的机制，重点是社会环境的影响，特别是毒品和性网络。有三个具体目标：目标1：描述在拉丁裔移徙工人中开展网络知情研究的促进者和障碍，以便为未来更大的研究提供信息；目标2：描述吸毒和不吸毒的拉丁裔移徙男子风险网络的结构、艾滋病毒感染状况、地理空间、背景和行为特征；以及目标3：审查毒品和性网络对移徙工人艾滋病毒风险和复原力的贡献。 公共卫生相关性：这项研究将率先在新接收社区的拉丁裔移徙工人中使用社会计量风险分析，以检查他们对艾滋病毒/性传播感染和药物使用的风险和复原力。如果这项技术既可行又有用，我们的数据将为在艾滋病毒流行前阶段对这一目标群体和其他移民群体进行社会计量研究提供必要的试点和路线图。