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Factors associated with minority women's enrollment in HIV trials identified

Published in Women's Health Weekly, April 21st, 2005

Researchers from Columbia University in New York, have identified factors associated with enrollment of minority women and their sexual partners in clinical trials of strategies to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

According to E. Wu and colleagues, "There is a paucity of empirical reports that quantitatively assess the success of recruitment strategies in randomized clinical trials (RCTs) using sampling units other than the individual.

"As innovations in HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) preventive intervention protocols and targets of change evolve, there is a need to examine the efficacy of attendant adaptations to...

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