Social Capital and Engagement in Care Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men Living With HIV

The social capital intervention will focus on developing skills and group-work that culminate in participant-derived photovoice projects. Each group of YBMSM will be encouraged to complete a 30 day photovoice challenge. The 30 day challenge is based on a prior community action project done as a part of our Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR)-funded research, which was a Photovoice project conducted by Dr. Hussen. Photovoice is a participatory action research methodology in which groups of individuals from a population of interest are given cameras to document events, people and places of significance in their lives.

"The control arm will participate in a health education intervention that will be delivered in a group, but without a specific goal of creating group cohesion or social capital. The intervention will be a modified version of Health for Life or H4L, which was used as a control arm intervention in a recently completed protocol of the Adolescent Trials Network which was co-chaired by Dr. Harper (University of Michigan)."