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Friends Care helps stimulant-using gay and bisexual men who are HIV negative to stay HIV negative.

 

Friends Care does this in two ways:

1. Friends Care offers a randomized behavioral intervention that provides vouchers of increasing value for repeated urine samples showing no evidence of stimulant use. You could be placed in a group where you earn vouchers based on your own urine results or in a group where you earn vouchers based on the urine results of another participant assigned to you.

2. Friends Care recognizes that sex under the influence of stimulants may be on the extreme side. So another way Friends Care helps HIV-negative men to stay negative is by providing take-home medications for you to take immediately following a sexual event that may have exposed you to HIV.

The research study lasts for 8 weeks and includes a follow-up interview 3 months and 6 months after you start the study.

 

For more information or to schedule an appointment to see if you are eligible for Friends Care, please call or text us at (323) 387-6079. We will be happy to answer any questions about this research study or provide you with referrals, if this is not exactly what you are looking for.