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NCT07173816Not yet recruiting

Optimizing PrEP Uptake for African American Women in the South by Empowering Women to Make Informed HIV Prevention and Sexual Health Choices

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 1 Sept 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

Pilot testing of EMPOWER, a group sexual health intervention, to increase uptake and persistence of PrEP

Status (registry)
Not yet recruiting
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
80 (estimated)
First submitted
1 Sept 2025
Start date
1 Oct 2026
Primary completion date
30 Jun 2027
Lead sponsor
University of Georgia
Diseases
HIV
NCT number
NCT07173816

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Planned participants: 80
  • From 1 Oct 2026 to the primary completion date, 30 Jun 2027
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

Built from the registry fields of ClinicalTrials.gov. It describes the study, not your situation.

Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Self-reported use of PrEP or PEP medication in the past three months;

Other illness

  • Cognitive or mental health condition that limits the ability to provide informed consent;
  • Currently living with HIV.

Other

  • Unable to speak and read English; and

Who the study is looking for

  • Identification as cis-gendered Black woman;
  • Age 18 and older;
  • Engaging in risky sexual behavior in prior 3 months (condomless vaginal or anal sex with a non-main partner, or a partner with known or suspected risk behavior such as injection drug use or HIV/STI, multiple sex partners, transactional sex);
  • Access to a device with a screen, a web browser, and adequate internet speed (e.g., smartphone, computer) for videoconferencing;
  • Able to speak and read English; and
  • No plans to leave the Atlanta, GA area during the duration of study participation.

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: Female · Accepts healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Empowerment Resource Center
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AtlantaUnited StatesUnknown status

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