PrEP support for women in probation, parole, or alternative programs who face heavy drinking and partner violence

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What this research studies

You would join one of 300 women in community supervision programs in New York City who report hazardous drinking. Participants are randomly assigned to either a three-session mobile program (WINGS+PrEP) that combines alcohol and intimate-partner-violence screening and brief intervention with a PrEP decision aid, peer navigation, and telemedicine, or to a single-session PrEP decision aid with peer navigation. The team will follow participants over time to see who starts PrEP and who continues taking it, while tracking how the program works in real-world settings. The program uses phones or web-based tools plus peer navigators to make PrEP access and adherence easier.

Why it matters

Where this research is happening

• Columbia University Health Sciences
  New York, United States Active

Researchers

• Principal investigator: Dasgupta, Anindita — Columbia University Health Sciences
• Study coordinator: Dasgupta, Anindita

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About this research

1. This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
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