378
Participants
Start Date
May 31, 2013
Primary Completion Date
March 31, 2017
Study Completion Date
August 31, 2017
Testing and linkage to care for Y/MSM
Implementation of strategies to enhance testing and linkage to care of Y/MSM, including social network testing and a youth outreach corps working with existing and new community partner agencies.
Engagement and retention for HIV-positive Y/MSM in care
Optimizing current HIV care and treatment services at DYC by implementing a patient peer mentoring component, a linkage and retention specialist, and psychosocial support for program staff.
Engagement and retention for HIV-negative Y/MSM in sexual health services
Offering a highly effective combination HIV prevention strategy, including PrEP; warm-hand offs for high-risk negatives, nPEP; risk reduction counseling; frequent HIV and STI testing, including testing a highly sensitive method of detecting early HIV infection; and youth-focused programming.
Stribild PEP Substudy
A substudy of 28 days of once-daily Stribild® initiated within 72 hours of a high risk sexual exposure for HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP).
Downtown Youth Clinic, Oakland
University of California, San Francisco
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