Grant: Operating Grant - HIV/AIDS CBR Program - General

The primary objective of this project is to develop, implement, and provide an evaluation of an HIV prevention program for HIV-positive gay and bisexual men in a sexual health and community-based research framework. This collaboration between the Positive Prevention Working Group and researchers comes at a time when HIV rates have begun to rise among men who have sex with men, and when rates of unprotected sex have been rising among HIV-positive men. The project will build on evidence-based HIV prevention programs reported in the research literature, consult with leading developers and practitioners of prevention programs directed toward HIV-positive men across North America, and engage local men to find the kind of program they would find attractive and effective. A small-scale series of workshops will be mounted for four groups of a dozen men who have a recent history of unprotected sex. Workshop participants will subsequently be followed to discover the degree to which the intervention has a sustained effect on risk behaviour. Findings from this study will provide the foundation for a subsequent effective, evidence-based, large-scale intervention.