Reducing Stigma in Clinics to Improve HIV and Anal Health Services
Tests ways to reduce stigma so clinics offer more HIV-related anal health services.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Improving Clinic Delivery of HIV-related Anal Health Services
Key facts
- Where
- Biloxi, United StatesSee the site
Where in United States
- Coastal Family Health CenterBiloxi, United StatesNo longer taking part
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Trial code
- NCT07464236
- Record updated
- 13 October 2026
- Original description
This project will test ways to reduce stigma in healthcare settings so that more providers offer, and more patients receive, important anal sex-related HIV services, including anorectal sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing, preventive medications, and cancer screening. By evaluating these stigma-reduction strategies in eight clinics in the Mississippi Delta, a region with high rates of HIV and STIs, the research team will learn whether and how these approaches work to improve access to care. The results will help guide healthcare systems in using the most effective methods to reduce stigma, making it easier for people to get prevention services and improving public health.Read full original descriptionShow less
Partnering to Enhance Anal Health Communication and HIV-related Evidence-based Services
This project will test ways to reduce stigma in healthcare settings so that more providers offer, and more patients receive, important anal sex-related HIV services, including anorectal sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing, preventive medications, and cancer screening. By evaluating these stigma-reduction strategies in eight clinics in the Mississippi Delta, a region with high rates of HIV and STIs, the research team will learn whether and how these approaches work to improve access to care. The results will help guide healthcare systems in using the most effective methods to reduce stigma, making it easier for people to get prevention services and improving public health.
Inclusion: Staff participants ("Strategy Recipients" and "Strategy Recipients"); employed at one of eight Coastal Family Health Center clinics at the time of the survey; over age 18 years old; Patient participants ("Patients"); accessing sexual health services at one of eight Coastal Family Health Center clinics in the last 12 months; over 18 years old.
Exclusion: Staff or patients who are unable to provide informed consent (e.g., significant cognitive impairment); Patients whose only visits are for non-HIV, non-STI issues and who do not meet the EMR-based eligibility criteria above; Individuals currently incarcerated or in state custody.