Access to HIV and Hepatitis Screening and Care Among Ethnic Minority Drug Users In and Out of Drug Treatment
Carmen Masson, PhD Lead Investigator Associate Adjunct Professor, Psychiatry University of Calfornia, San Francisco 1001 Potrero Ave. SFGH Building 20, Ward 21 San Francisco, CA 94110 carmen.masson@ucsf.edu

This study is in collaboration with the NIH National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities and will be conducted in the California/Arizona Node. The primary goal of this study is to identify barriers and facilitators to HIV and hepatitis C screening and treatment among ethnic minority drug users. Using a combination of structured survey and qualitative focus group methods, researchers will interview drug users in and out of drug abuse treatment about their previous experiences in accessing HIV and HCV screening and treatment services. They will interview HIV and/or HCV infected drug users recruited from three settings: methadone maintenance, HIV primary care, and syringe exchange programs. Survey and focus group topics will address past and current experiences in accessing HIV and HCV screening and treatment, risk behaviors, perceptions of treatment settings and providers, lifetime substance use and past-30-day use, past and current motivation for screening and treatment, and resource and structural barriers.

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