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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2016 Dec;13(6):374–382. doi: 10.1007/s11904-016-0337-5

Table 1.

Summary of Findings: Trauma-Informed HIV Prevention and Treatment Intervention Studies Between June 2011–June 2016

Authors
(Year)
Country Treatment/
Prevention
Population Trauma
Addressed
Intervention
Level
Targeted Outcome(s) Intervention Efficacy
Abramsky T, Devries K, Kiss L, Nakuti J, Kyegombe N, Starmann E, Cundill B, Francisco L, Kaye D, Musuya T, Michau L, Watts C (2014) [22] Uganda Primary Prevention 18 to 49 year old community members IPV Community
  • Reduce social acceptance of IPV and gender inequality

  • Decrease experiences of IPV

  • Improve community response to experiences of IPV

  • Decrease sexual risk behaviors

  • Lowered social acceptance of IPV

  • Increased acceptance that women can refuse sex

  • Lowered past year experience of sexual and physical IPV

  • Increased community support among women experiencing IPV

  • Reduced past year sexual concurrency among men

Champion JD, Collins JL (2011) [23] USA Primary Prevention Mexican- and African-American adolescent females with STI and abuse histories Physical or sexual abuse Individual
  • Reduce STI rates

  • Reduced STIs at 6 months and 12 months post-intervention

Peragallo N, Gonzalez-Guarda RM, McCabe BE, Cianelli R (2011) [24] USA Primary Prevention Hispanic Female Adults IPV Individual
  • Reduce Chlamydia rates

  • Reduce behavioral risks (e g., sexual risk, intimate partner risk, substance use)

  • Improve prevention mediators

  • Decreased Chlamydia rates

  • Increased condom use

  • Decreased substance use

  • Decreased IPV

  • Improved several prevention mediators (e.g., communication)

Reza-Paul S, Lorway R, O’Brien N, Lazarus L, Jain J, Bhagya M, Fathima MP, Venukumar KT, Raviprakash KN, Baer J, Steen R (2012) [25] India Primary Prevention Male and female sex workers Multiple forms, including IPV, violence from clients, police and other community members, and trafficking Community
  • Reduce multiple forms of violence

  • Prevent STIs/HIV

  • Decreased incidence of violence (police, anti-social elements, clients)

  • Saw increases in reported IPV

Wagman JA, Gray RH, Campbell JC, Thoma M, Ndyanabo A, Ssekasanvu J, Nalugoda F, Kagaayi J, Nakigozi G, Serwadda D, Brahmbhatt H (2015) [26] Uganda Primary Prevention 15–49 year old community members IPV Community; individual level for women only
  • Reduce experience and perpetration of past year IPV (emotional, sexual, physical)

  • Reduce lab-diagnosed HIV incidence

  • Reduced past year experience of physical and sexual IPV

  • Reduced HIV incidence at ~35 month follow-up

Wechsberg WM, El-Bassel N, Carney T, Browne FA, Myers B, Zule WA (2015) [27] South Africa Primary Prevention Heterosexual adult couples with alcohol using male in primary partner relationship IPV Interpersonal/couple
  • Reduce alcohol and other drug use

  • Reduce sexual risk behaviors

  • Reduce IPV

  • Promote healthy relationships

  • Modify traditional gender roles

  • No findings to date; intervention underway

Wechsberg WM, Jewkes R, Novak SP, Kline T, Myers B, Browne FA, Carney T, Lopez AAM, Parry C (2013) [28] South Africa Primary Prevention Sexually active, drug-using women between 18 and 33 years of age IPV Individual
  • Increase biologically-confirmed drug abstinence

  • Increased likeliness of being sober at last sex

  • Increase condom use with main and casual sex partners

  • Reduce IPV

  • Increased abstinence from drugs at 12 month follow-up

  • Increased likeliness of being sober at last sex at 6 month follow-up

Williams JK, Glover DA, Wyatt GE, Kisler K, Liu H, Zhang M (2013) [29] USA Treatment; Secondary Prevention HIV+ African-American MSMW with history of CSA Childhood Sexual Abuse Individual
  • Reduce sexual risk behaviors

  • Reduce number of partners;

  • Reduce psychological symptoms;

  • Improve HIV symptoms using neurohormone indicators (cortisol) and neopterin as an indicator of HIV progression

  • Reduced episodes of unprotected anal insertive sex

  • Reduced depressive symptoms