Clinic-based Intervention Reduces Unprotected Sexual Behavior Among HIV-infected Patients in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Results of a Pilot Study

Overview

Journal J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2008 Jul 23

PMID 18645518

Citations 40

Authors

Deborah H Cornman

Susan M Kiene

Sarah Christie

William A Fisher

Paul A Shuper

Sandy Pillay

Gerald H Friedland

Cyril M Thomas

Linda Lodge

Jeffrey D Fisher

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Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the feasibility, fidelity, and effectiveness of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention intervention delivered to HIV-infected patients by counselors during routine clinical care in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Methods: A total of 152 HIV-infected patients, aged 18 years and older, receiving clinical care at an urban hospital in South Africa, were randomly assigned to intervention or standard-of-care control counselors. Intervention counselors implemented a brief risk reduction intervention at each clinical encounter to help patients reduce their unprotected sexual behavior. Self-report questionnaires were administered at baseline and 6 months to assess number of unprotected sex events in previous 3 months.

Results: Intervention was delivered in 99% of routine patient visits and included a modal 8 of 8 intervention steps. Although HIV-infected patients in both conditions reported more vaginal and anal sex events at 6-month follow-up than at baseline, patients who received the counselor-delivered intervention reported a significant decrease over time in number of unprotected sexual events. There was a marginally significant increase in these events among patients in the standard-of-care control condition.

Conclusions: A counselor-delivered HIV prevention intervention targeting HIV-infected patients seems to be feasible to implement with fidelity in the South African clinical care setting and effective at reducing unprotected sexual behavior.

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