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Table 1.

HIV prevention interventions developed by the minority HIV/AIDS research initiative (MARI), 2007–2020

Principal investigator/years funded/study location	Intervention developed or in-progress	Intervention delivery
Guillermo (Willy) Prado/2007–2011 University of Miami—*Miami, FL	Brief Familias Unidas Publication: Estrada et al., Efficacy of a Brief Intervention to Reduce Substance Use and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Risk Among Latino Youth. J Adolesc Health, 2015. 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2015.07.006	• 6-week intervention compared with a community practice control condition. • Adolescents were surveyed at 6, 12, and 24 months after baseline.
Yannine Estrada/2011–2016 University of Miami—*Miami, FL	eFamilias Unidas Publication: Estrada et al. eHealth Familias Unidas: Pilot Study of an Internet Adaptation of an Evidence-Based Family Intervention to Reduce Drug Use and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Hispanic Adolescents. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 2017. http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/14/3/264.	• Eight parent video groups viewed through the intervention’s website • Four family sessions conducted with an intervention facilitator and parent/adolescent dyads via web-conferencing software
Bridgette Brawner/2011–2016 University of Pennsylvania—*Philadelphia, PA	Project GOLD: We are Kings and Queens Publication: Brawner et al., The development of an innovative, theory-driven, psychoeducational HIV/STI prevention intervention for heterosexually active Black adolescents with mental illnesses. Vulnerable Child Youth Stud, 2019; 14:2, 151–165. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17450128.2019.1567962	• Manualized curriculum is delivered over 2 days (3 h per day), with eight, 45-min modules, in mixed-gender groups of up to eight participants
Andres Camacho-Gonzalez/2011–2016 Emory University—*Atlanta, GA	MACARTI Publication: Camacho-Gonzalez, et al., The Metropolitan Atlanta community adolescent rapid testing initiative study: closing the gaps in HIV care among youth in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. AIDS. 2017 Jul 1;31 Suppl 3:S267-S275. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5497786/	• Meetings are three times biweekly. The first session is a one-hour encounter to establish rapport, understand participant experience with stigma. • Two weeks later, a second one-hour session is conducted. • Four weeks after the second session, a final 30-min booster session is implemented for positive reinforcement.
Pamela Payne-Foster/2011–2016 University of Alabama—*Tuscaloosa, AL	Project FAITHH Publication: Payne-Foster et al., Testing our FAITHH: HIV Stigma and Knowledge after a Faith-based HIV Stigma Reduction Intervention in the Rural South, AIDS Care, 30:2, 232–239, 10.1080/09540121.2017.1371664	• The eight-module intervention included educational materials, myth-busting exercises to increase accurate HIV knowledge, role-playing, activities to confront stigma, and opportunities to develop and practice delivering a sermon about HIV that included scripture-based content and guidance.
Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz/2011–2016 University of Puerto Rico—*San Juan, Puerto Rico	Contacto Publication/Presentation: Rodríguez-Díaz, C. E., et al. Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a stigma management intervention for Spanish-speaking HIV-positive gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. Under review.	• A one-on-one, a 90 min long intervention with a health educator. • Follow up at 6 weeks and 3 months from baseline.
Sophia Hussen/2016–2020 Emory University—*Atlanta, GA	Brothers Building Brothers by Breaking Barriers (B6) Publication: Hussen et al., Brothers Building Brothers by Breaking Barriers: development of a resilience-building social capital intervention for young Black gay and bisexual men living with HIV. AIDS Care, 2019, 30:sup4, 51–58. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540121.2018.1527007.	• B6 is a group-level intervention that contains 10 modules which can be delivered over 1 or 2 days.
Yzette Lanier/2016–2020 New York University---*NYC (Bronx & Upper Manhattan), NY	Project YESS! Presentation: Lanier Y, Campo A. The Role of Relationship Characteristics on Use of Combination HIV Prevention Methods Among Young Black And Latino Heterosexual Adolescents And Young Adults. J Adolescent Health. 2019; 64(2):S27-S28. Available at: https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(18)30526-3/abstract	• Intervention development is in progress with direct input from youth in priority populations.
Souhail Malave-Rivera/2016–2020 University of Puerto Rico—*San Juan, Puerto Rico	Contactos Publication/presentation: Malavé-Rivera SM, et al. Persistent gay and HIV-related stigma among young gay and bisexual men diagnosed with HIV in Puerto Rico. Under review.	• Three biweekly 2.5-h sessions. • During the first session, through conversations and prompted by open-ended questions and materials, each participant weights the benefits (pros) and costs (cons) for change and identify strengths and challenges to achieve desired change. Each participant develops a personal plan to achieve their goals. • During the following sessions, participants share updates of the steps taken to achieve the proposed goal.
Omar Martinez/2016–2020 Temple University—*Philadelphia, PA	Connecting Latinos en Pareja Publication: Martinez et al., A couple-based HIV prevention intervention for Latino men who have sex with men: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2018; 19: 218. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5887179/	• Four sessions: Session 1 focuses on the personal, cultural and contextual factors that influence risk and protection among couples. Session 2 consists of developing effective communication and goal setting skills, developing couple sexual health plans, and increasing the couple’s motivation to use different prevention technologies. Session 3 focuses on relationship strengthening, identifying and defining unwritten rules, exploring couple’s power and decision-making process, examining triggers to risky sex and developing action plans. It includes skill-building and role play for negotiating HIV protected, safe and fun sex and exploring different prevention alternatives. In session 4, couples identify social support networks and resources within and outside the Latino community that could help them sustain their goals.
Jacob van den Berg/2016–2020 Brown University---Providence, RI	For HIMM Publication: van den Berg et al., Using eHealth to Reach Black and Hispanic Men Who Have Sex With Men Regarding Treatment as Prevention and Preexposure Prophylaxis: Protocol for a Small Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2018; Jul 16;7(7):e11047. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30012549	• Social media messages to encourage participants to repeatedly access and engage with the website over the course of the 6-month intervention.

Principal investigator/years funded/study location

Intervention developed or in-progress

Intervention delivery

Guillermo (Willy) Prado/2007–2011

University of Miami—*Miami, FL

Brief Familias Unidas

Publication: Estrada et al., Efficacy of a Brief Intervention to Reduce Substance Use and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Risk Among Latino Youth. J Adolesc Health, 2015. 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2015.07.006

• 6-week intervention compared with a community practice control condition.

• Adolescents were surveyed at 6, 12, and 24 months after baseline.

Yannine Estrada/2011–2016

University of Miami—*Miami, FL

eFamilias Unidas

Publication: Estrada et al. eHealth Familias Unidas: Pilot Study of an Internet Adaptation of an Evidence-Based Family Intervention to Reduce Drug Use and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Hispanic Adolescents. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 2017. http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/14/3/264.

• Eight parent video groups viewed through the intervention’s website

• Four family sessions conducted with an intervention facilitator and parent/adolescent dyads via web-conferencing software

Bridgette Brawner/2011–2016

University of Pennsylvania—*Philadelphia, PA

Project GOLD: We are Kings and Queens

Publication: Brawner et al., The development of an innovative, theory-driven, psychoeducational HIV/STI prevention intervention for heterosexually active Black adolescents with mental illnesses. Vulnerable Child Youth Stud, 2019; 14:2, 151–165. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17450128.2019.1567962

• Manualized curriculum is delivered over 2 days (3 h per day), with eight, 45-min modules, in mixed-gender groups of up to eight participants

Andres Camacho-Gonzalez/2011–2016

Emory University—*Atlanta, GA

MACARTI

Publication: Camacho-Gonzalez, et al., The Metropolitan Atlanta community adolescent rapid testing initiative study: closing the gaps in HIV care among youth in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. AIDS. 2017 Jul 1;31 Suppl 3:S267-S275.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5497786/

• Meetings are three times biweekly. The first session is a one-hour encounter to establish rapport, understand participant experience with stigma.

• Two weeks later, a second one-hour session is conducted.

• Four weeks after the second session, a final 30-min booster session is implemented for positive reinforcement.

Pamela Payne-Foster/2011–2016

University of Alabama—*Tuscaloosa, AL

Project FAITHH

Publication: Payne-Foster et al., Testing our FAITHH: HIV Stigma and Knowledge after a Faith-based HIV Stigma Reduction Intervention in the Rural South, AIDS Care, 30:2, 232–239, 10.1080/09540121.2017.1371664

• The eight-module intervention included educational materials, myth-busting exercises to increase accurate HIV knowledge, role-playing, activities to confront stigma, and opportunities to develop and practice delivering a sermon about HIV that included scripture-based content and guidance.

Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz/2011–2016

University of Puerto Rico—*San Juan, Puerto Rico

Contacto

Publication/Presentation: Rodríguez-Díaz, C. E., et al. Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a stigma management intervention for Spanish-speaking HIV-positive gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. Under review.

• A one-on-one, a 90 min long intervention with a health educator.

• Follow up at 6 weeks and 3 months from baseline.

Sophia Hussen/2016–2020

Emory University—*Atlanta, GA

Brothers Building Brothers by Breaking Barriers (B6)

Publication: Hussen et al., Brothers Building Brothers by Breaking Barriers: development of a resilience-building social capital intervention for young Black gay and bisexual men living with HIV. AIDS Care, 2019, 30:sup4, 51–58.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540121.2018.1527007.

• B6 is a group-level intervention that contains 10 modules which can be delivered over 1 or 2 days.

Yzette Lanier/2016–2020

New York University---*NYC (Bronx & Upper Manhattan), NY

Project YESS!

Presentation: Lanier Y, Campo A. The Role of Relationship Characteristics on Use of Combination HIV Prevention Methods Among Young Black And Latino Heterosexual Adolescents And Young Adults. J Adolescent Health. 2019; 64(2):S27-S28. Available at: https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(18)30526-3/abstract

• Intervention development is in progress with direct input from youth in priority populations.

Souhail Malave-Rivera/2016–2020

University of Puerto Rico—*San Juan, Puerto Rico

Contactos

Publication/presentation: Malavé-Rivera SM, et al. Persistent gay and HIV-related stigma among young gay and bisexual men diagnosed with HIV in Puerto Rico. Under review.

• Three biweekly 2.5-h sessions.

• During the first session, through conversations and prompted by open-ended questions and materials, each participant weights the benefits (pros) and costs (cons) for change and identify strengths and challenges to achieve desired change. Each participant develops a personal plan to achieve their goals.

• During the following sessions, participants share updates of the steps taken to achieve the proposed goal.

Omar Martinez/2016–2020

Temple University—*Philadelphia, PA

Connecting Latinos en Pareja

Publication: Martinez et al., A couple-based HIV prevention intervention for Latino men who have sex with men: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2018; 19: 218. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5887179/

• Four sessions: Session 1 focuses on the personal, cultural and contextual factors that influence risk and protection among couples. Session 2 consists of developing effective communication and goal setting skills, developing couple sexual health plans, and increasing the couple’s motivation to use different prevention technologies. Session 3 focuses on relationship strengthening, identifying and defining unwritten rules, exploring couple’s power and decision-making process, examining triggers to risky sex and developing action plans. It includes skill-building and role play for negotiating HIV protected, safe and fun sex and exploring different prevention alternatives. In session 4, couples identify social support networks and resources within and outside the Latino community that could help them sustain their goals.

Jacob van den Berg/2016–2020

Brown University---Providence, RI

For HIMM

Publication: van den Berg et al., Using eHealth to Reach Black and Hispanic Men Who Have Sex With Men Regarding Treatment as Prevention and Preexposure Prophylaxis: Protocol for a Small Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2018; Jul 16;7(7):e11047. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30012549

• Social media messages to encourage participants to repeatedly access and engage with the website over the course of the 6-month intervention.

*One of the 48 counties or 7 states with substantial HIV burden as outlined in “Ending the HIV Epidemic.” (https://files.hiv.gov/s3fs-public/Ending-the-HIV-Epidemic-Counties-and-Territories.pdf)