# Podcasting HIV Prevention within African American Communities to Decrease New Infection

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON · 2021 · $325,401

## Abstract

Project Summary
Given the continued impact of HIV among African Americans, there is still an urgent need to expand
prevention efforts and HIV testing in African American communities. Heterosexual individuals may acquire
and spread infection directly through heterosexual contact, bi-sexual sexual contact, and/or indirectly
through homosexual sexual contact. Evidence-based interventions have been shown to increase consistent
condom use, decrease sexual partners, and increase HIV testing; however, traditionally-implemented
evidence-based intervention packages may not be accessible to communities given the resources and
expertise needed to implement them. This project seeks to: 1) assess feasibility for the development of two
theory- based, video podcast-delivered, HIV prevention interventions for self-identified heterosexual African
American males and females; and 2) evaluate the effectiveness (pilot) of the two theory- based, HIV
prevention video podcasts for African American males and females. We will develop the two (male and
female) video podcasts that maintain the theoretical integrity of two established CDC evidence-based
behavioral HIV prevention interventions. The assessment phase will consist of leveraging African American
community members and stakeholders and experts in the field of HIV prevention science in the conceptual
and theoretical development of the podcast content. The effectiveness phase will consist of broadcasting the
podcasts for participants and evaluating HIV prevention knowledge, condom use, attitudes and self-efficacy
for condom use, and HIV testing behavior (1mo and 3mo follow-ups). This intervention is the first of its kind
and has the potential to increase HIV protective behaviors in this hard-to-reach and medically underserved
population. We expect the resulting interventions to be easily disseminated throughout the African American
communities, with the potential to reduce HIV-related disparities within this population. The present study
will impact and advance the field by demonstrating feasibility and effectiveness for a novel mode of
intervention engagement within HIV prevention science, serve as preliminary data for a larger trial, and
foster HIV prevention awareness within the African American community.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10452035
- **Project number:** 3U54MD015946-02S2
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
- **Principal Investigator:** Ezemenari M. Obasi
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $325,401
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2020-04-08 → 2023-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10452035

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10452035, Podcasting HIV Prevention within African American Communities to Decrease New Infection (3U54MD015946-02S2). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10452035. Licensed CC0.

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