Grant: Operating Grant - PA: HIV/AIDS Res Initiative - Hlth Svs/Population Hlth Stream

The objectives of this project are to compare a peer-delivered HIV prevention intervention for HIV-positive gay men against being on a 6-month waitlist with appropriate referrals that already exist in the community. Specifically, the intervention should result in a decreased likelihood of having risky sex versus being on a waitlist. This project builds on findings from a previously CIHR funded project that focused on developing, implementing, and evaluating the current intervention which is called Gay Positive Sex (GPS). GPS consists of a series of 7 counselling sessions during which Motivational Interviewing counselling techniques are used in order to facilitate changes in participants' behaviours (e.g., reduction of risk behaviours, increase in healthy behaviours). GPS 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 men who have sex with men.