Professors Beckerman and Auerbach Involved in Large Scale HIV/AIDS Research Project

Harlem Directors Group has joined with Wurzweiler Professors Nancy Beckerman and Charles Auerbach in a research study to identify patterns of compliance and non-compliance with HIV/AIDS prevention strategies. The study will be conducted in Northern Manhattan communities where HIV/AIDS is common and its effects, devastating. More than 30 community agencies will be included, providing an unprecedented opportunity to identify sociocultural obstacles to compliance with the CDC recommended HIV prevention interventions.

The strategies being investigated are those described in the Compendium of HIV Prevention Interventions with Evidence of Effectiveness, a database created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to respond to requests from prevention service providers, planners, and others who have requested science-based interventions that work.