Project STYLE (Strength Through Youth Livin’ Empowered)

Summary

Project STYLE increases awareness about HIV through outreach and testing events on college campuses and in the larger community, development of partnerships, and fostering of linkages to HIV care.

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Intervention Outcomes

• Two-thirds retained in care
• 62 percent initiated ART
• At 12 months, 76 percent achieved viral load suppression
• An increase of persons with CD4 counts 350 or more from 71 percent at baseline to 85 percent at study end

Cost Analysis

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Supplementary Resources

Publications

• Men who have sex with men and women: a unique risk group for HIV transmission on North Carolina College campuses
• The unexpected movement of the HIV epidemic in the Southeastern United States: transmission among college students
• Predictors of repeat testing and HIV seroconversion in a sexually transmitted disease clinic population
• Failure to return for HIV posttest counseling in an STD clinic population
• Transmitted HIV-1 drug resistance among young men of color who have sex with men: a multicenter cohort analysis
• Keeping them in "STYLE": finding, linking, and retaining young HIV-positive Black and Latino men who have sex with men in care
• Late diagnosis of HIV in young men in North Carolina