Leveraging Family-based Assets for Black Msm in House Ball Communities
Description: Black men who have sex with men (MSM) continue to have the highest incidence of new HIV diagnoses in the US but are least likely to be engaged in care or to be virally suppressed. Many Black MSM face multiple stigmas but some have found refuge in the House Ball Community (HBC)—a national network of Black LGBT kinship commitments (families) that provide (informal) care giving, affirmation and survival skills-building for its members. We propose to modify a skills-building and HIV prevention best-evidence, group-level intervention for HIV- negative Black MSM, Many Men Many Voices, into a family-based intervention to focus on asset-building for both HIV-negative and HIV-positive Black MSM within HBC families.
Funding type: research
Funder scheme: R34
Start date: 2020-05-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Investigator: JEFFREY M BIRNBAUM
Institution: SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Funded outputs count: 2
Funder award ID: R34MH124082
OpenAlex ID: G1966008244