Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
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Investigator: Stephen Morin, PhD
Sponsor: NIH National Institute of Mental Health
Location(s): Kenya; Mozambique; Uganda; Tanzania; Zimbabwe; Botswana; South Africa; China; India; Nepal; Thailand; Philippines; Brazil
Description
Established in 1986, the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) at UC San Francisco is the world’s largest research center dedicated to social, behavioral, and policy science approaches to HIV. CAPS comprises a community of scientists devoted to developing innovative research on HIV/AIDS, training others to do this work, and rapidly disseminating findings. Recent CAPS international projects include:
Africa
- Application of Weighted Time-Series to Address Bias in Evaluation of Clinic- and Community-Level Research (Shade, S)
- Assessment of Economic Factors Associated with the Psychological Well-Being of HIV+ Persons in Kenya
(Arnold, M) - Couples-Based Voluntary Counseling and Testing and HIV Prevention in South Africa (Darbes, L)
- Couples in Context: An RCT of Couples-Based HIV Prevention Intervention (Darbes, L.)
- Developing a Comprehensive Couples-Based Intervention in South Africa (Darbes, L & Johnson, M)
- Disclosure Intervention for Zimbabwean Parents (Lightfoot, M)
- Family-Based HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing in Patients at Risk for Tuberculosis (Charlebois, E)
- HIV Prevention among Township Men Who Have Sex with Men in South Africa (Lane, T)
- Identifying Opportunities for HIV Prevention with Female Migrants in Kenya (Camlin, C)
- MAMAS Study: Effects of HIV/AIDS Stigma on Use of Services by Pregnant Women in Kenya (Turan, J)
- Positive Prevention in Mozambique (Dawson-Rose, C)
- Project Accept: …Community Mobilization, Mobile Testing, Same-Day Results, and Post-Test Support for HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa and Thailand (Morin, S)
- Project PROMOTE: Novel Strategies to Prevent Malaria and Improve HIV Outcomes in Africa — Data and Statistics Core (Charlebois, E)
- Project REAC: Prevalence and Duration of False-Positive HIV Test Results in Acute Malaria (Charlebois, E)
- Qualitative Study of HIV Prevalence Patterns among Youth in Botswana (Rutherford, G)
- Reducing New Infections in the NW Province of South Africa (Lippman, S)
- Risk Reduction for HIV Serodiscordant Couples Attempting Conception (Brubaker, S)
- South Africa Health Monitoring Study (SAHMS) (Lane, T)
- Strategies for Promoting Male Circumcision through Voluntary Counseling and Testing in Rural Sub-Saharan African Communities (Morin, S)
- Toward Understanding Community Mobilization for HIV Prevention in the African Context (Lippman, S)
Asia
- Adherence to ART in Bangalore, India (Ekstrand, M)
- AIDS, Stigma and Gender: Health Consequences in Urban India (Ekstrand, M)
- Cambodian Young Women’s Health Study (Page, K)
- Context and Correlates of Health Behaviors in South India (Ekstrand, M)
- Formative Research to Assess HIV Risk among MSM in Nepal (Wilson, E.)
- HIV Prevention Intervention for HIV-Positive Men in China (Choi, K)
- Influence of Stigma and Discrimination on HIV Risk among Men in China (Choi, K)
- Understanding the HIV Risk and Protective Behaviors of Young Business Process Outsourcing Center Employees in the Philippines (Bangi, A)