Peer education intervention reduced sexually transmitted infections among male Tajik labor migrants who inject drugs: results of a cluster-randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Male Tajik labour migrants who inject drugs in Russia are at high risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. The "Migrants' Approached Self-Learning Intervention in HIV/AIDS for Tajiks" (MASLIHAT) trained Tajik labour migrants who inject drugs in Moscow as peer educators (PEs) in delivering HIV prevention information and promoting risk-reduction norms and practices within their diaspora social networks while reducing their own HIV risk. Our earlier analysis of a cluster-randomized controlled trial testing the intervention's effects found that MASLIHAT reduced condomless sex, condomless sex with female sex workers, and sex with multiple sexual partners. This analysis draws on data from this parent study to investigate if these observed changes in safer sex tr

SUBMITTER: Mackesy-Amiti ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12150518 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature