The National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS) study (part of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics/HAA Public Health/Academic Partnership)
Brief Project Description
NHBS, known locally as WORD UP (Washington Outreach Research Drive to Understand Prevention) is a CDC-funded project being conducted by the George Washington University (GWU) School of Public Health and Health Services, Department of Epidemiology and Biostiatics in conjunction with the Public Health-Academic Partnership between GWU Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the District of Columbia Department of Health/HIV/AIDS Administration. One of 25 sites across the U.S., the purpose of WORD UP is to learn about what people do that puts them at risk for HIV in the District through serial cross sectional studies which target, one year at a time, males who have sex with males (MSM), injecting drug users (IDU), and heterosexuals at high risk of HIV (HET). Following a 4-6 month period of intensive formative and ethnographic research, an anonymous quantitative survey is administered to 500 randomly selected persons in the target populations each year. Resulting information informs prevention activities and the development of new strategies to reduce HIV.
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