Pilot of Mpowerment for Young Men Who Have Sex With Men (YMSM) in Beirut

HIV Clinical Trial

Official title:

Pilot of Culturally Tailored Mpowerment for HIV Prevention Among YMSM in Beirut

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02918799
• Other study ID #: 2014-0992
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 2016
• Est. completion date: March 2020

Study information

• Verified date: October 2020
• Source: RAND
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This project will adapt and pilot a multi-level, community-based intervention to promote HIV prevention and sexual health among young men who have sex with men in Beirut.

Description:

Mpowerment (MP) is an evidence-based community-level, structural, social and behavioral intervention for HIV prevention developed for YMSM that targets individual and community empowerment and mobilization, self-affirmation, sexual self-knowledge, and creation of a supportive social environment. MP has been widely used in the U.S., but not in a mostly Muslim setting. This project will adapt and pilot MP for the sociocultural issues facing YMSM (age 18-29) in Beirut. There will be a 2-year pilot implementation of MP, with longitudinal cohorts of YMSM in Beirut and Jounieh, the latter being the control community. Primary outcomes will be unprotected anal sex and HIV testing, with secondary outcomes being engagement in peer outreach, and perceived peer norms related to condom use and HIV testing.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 226
• Est. completion date: March 2020
• Est. primary completion date: January 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Male
• Age group: 18 Years to 29 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• men aged 18-29, who have had anal sex with men in the past 6 months

Exclusion Criteria:

• not residing in Lebanon

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• HIV

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Mpowerment
MP is a multi-level intervention that reaches out to all YMSM in a community by mobilizing men to encourage their friends to reduce risk behavior and join the program (informal outreach), along with holding social activities that promote safe sex (formal outreach). MP provides YMSM with skills, support and confidence to find solutions within themselves for sexual health, and seeks to affirm the validity and rights of same-sex behavior and identities.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (5)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
RAND	AIDS Project Los Angeles, Arab Foundation for Freedom and Equality, Lebanese AIDS Society, University of California, San Francisco

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	condomless anal sex	condomless anal sex with HIV+ or unknown status partners in past 3 months will be assessed via questionnaire	past 3 months
Primary	HIV testing	Variable will be assessed via questionnaire	past 6 months