A dyadic approach to HIV prevention for male couples

This talk explores the need for couples-focused interventions that address HIV risks among male couples. 

An SWSC Seminar with Professor Rob Stephenson from the University of Michigan, School of Nursing and The Center for Sexuality and Health Disparities.

 Professor Stephenson will review the epidemiological evidence on the risk of HIV transmission among male couples, and will discuss the relationship factors that put dyads at risk of HIV. Stephenson will present results of two of his recent dyadic focused HIV interventions, illustrating how HIV prevention can be tailored and delivered for male couples – and will discuss the health service implications of addressing the unique HIV needs of male couples.

Speaker:

Rob Stephenson is the 2021-22 US-UK Fulbright-University of Birmingham Distinguished Chair Scholar. Trained as a demographer and epidemiologist, Stephenson’s work focuses on the sexual and reproductive health of vulnerable populations.  Stephenson’s work is centred primarily on the development and testing of interventions that aim to improve sexual health outcomes, with a particular focus on HIV prevention among sexual and gender minority populations in the US and globally. His work seeks to understand the intersections between stigma, violence and sexual health, with the aim of developing interventions that disrupt the negative pathways between stigma, violence and poor sexual health outcomes – particularly for groups at high risk of HIV.  @RobStephenson74.