Barbershop Talk: HIV Prevention for African American Heterosexual Men

在美国，黑人或非洲裔美国人的艾滋病毒感染负担是巨大的，因为超过一半的新艾滋病毒诊断发生在这个群体中。异性性接触占这种传播的很大一部分，但成年异性恋者的艾滋病毒预防需求之间存在很大的差距， 非裔美国人和已被证明能满足这些需求的项目。纽约州立大学南部医学中心和亚瑟阿什城市健康研究所的调查人员。在布鲁克林纽约有超过十年的经验，共同致力于当地社区为基础的健康教育计划， 行为干预和行动导向的项目。最近，参与这一伙伴关系的调查小组利用CBPR方法制定了一项干预措施，旨在减少黑人（包括非洲人、非洲裔美国人和非洲加勒比人）异性恋成年男子的性风险行为， 而不是注射毒品。我们的目标是评估这种语言和文化上定制的艾滋病毒预防计划对21岁及以上的异性恋非洲裔美国男性的性风险的影响，以评估干预措施对该计划旨在更接近的社会和心理变量的影响。 变化，并确定可能影响干预措施在这一优先人群中的影响的关键背景因素。这一干预措施符合2011年全国卫生研究院艾滋病毒相关研究计划，该计划的优先事项是减少种族和族裔人口中与艾滋病毒相关的差异，满足艾滋病毒/艾滋病负担过重的人口的需求， 他们很少有有效的方法，并将有助于以证据为基础的周围的可持续性，可接受的方法，以减少非洲裔美国人的风险的效力。

The burden of HIV infection among men and women who identify as Black or African American in the U.S. is enormous, given that over half of all new HIV diagnoses occur in this group. Heterosexual contact accounts for much of this transmission, yet a large gap exists between the HIV prevention needs of adult heterosexual African American men and programs that have been demonstrated to meet these needs. Investigators at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, Inc. in Brooklyn NY have over ten years experience working together on local community based health education initiatives, behavioral interventions, and action oriented projects. More recently, the investigative team involved in this partnership has utilized CBPR methods to develop an intervention that seeks to reduce sexual risk behavior among Black (including African, African American, and African Caribbean) heterosexual adult men who do not inject drugs. Our aims are to assess the impact of this linguistically and culturally tailored HIV prevenfion program on the sexual risk of heterosexual, African American men aged 21 and older, to assess the intervention's impact on the more proximal social and psychological variables that the program is designed to change, and to identify key contexual level factors that may Impact the intervention's impact across segments of this priority population. This intervention is consistent with the 2011 Trans-NIH Plan for HIVRelated Research, which has as a priority the reduction of HIV-related disparities in racial and ethnic populations, addresses the needs of a population who bear a disproportionate burden of HIV/AIDS and for whom there are few effective approaches available, and will contribute to the evidence-based surrounding the efficacy of sustainable, acceptable approaches to risk reduction among African American men.