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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

HIV

Age range

18 year–29 year

Sex eligibility

Male

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

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

Exclusion criteria

not residing in Lebanon

Treatment and study plan

Mpowerment

Behavioral

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.

Primary outcomes

condomless anal sex

Time frame: past 3 months

condomless anal sex with HIV+ or unknown status partners in past 3 months will be assessed via questionnaire
HIV testing

Time frame: past 6 months

Variable will be assessed via questionnaire

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

RAND

Other

Collaborators

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

Registry information

Official study title

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

Important dates

Study start: 2016
Primary completion: 2020
Study completion: 2020
First posted: Sep 29, 2016
Registry last updated: Oct 6, 2020

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