Browne Lab

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Research Triangle Park · United States

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NIH R01 · 2025

GODDESS (Gathering Online for Dialogue and Discussion to Enhance Social Support): Engaging young African American women in a virtual group app to address alcohol misuse, sexual risk, and PrEP in NC

The intersection between alcohol and other drug (AOD) use among young Black women at risk for HIV is a public health issue. Recent epidemiological data highlight increases in alcohol misuse among young Black women. These issues are coupled with high rates of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Addressing this difference in HIV acquisition is key to ending the HIV epidemic and improving the health and well-being of all, particularly in the U.S. South. Consequently, there is a critical need to decrease alcohol use and impaired sex and to increase pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake as prevention for this population. The proposed study builds on decades of research of a…

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