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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2013 Nov;17(9):3066-80.
doi: 10.1007/s10461-013-0586-x.

Randomized controlled trial to test the RHANI Wives HIV intervention for women in India at risk for HIV from husbands

Anita Raj  1 , Niranjan Saggurti, Madhusudana Battala, Saritha Nair, Anindita Dasgupta, D D Naik, Daniela Abramovitz, Jay G Silverman, Donta Balaiah
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Randomized Controlled Trial

Randomized controlled trial to test the RHANI Wives HIV intervention for women in India at risk for HIV from husbands

Anita Raj et al. AIDS Behav. 2013 Nov.

Abstract

This study involved evaluation of the short-term impact of the RHANI Wives HIV intervention among wives at risk for HIV from husbands in Mumbai, India. A two-armed cluster RCT was conducted with 220 women surveyed on marital sex at baseline and 4-5 month follow-up. RHANI Wives was a multisession intervention focused on safer sex, marital communication, gender inequities and violence; control participants received basic HIV prevention education. Generalized linear mixed models were conducted to assess program impact, with cluster as a random effect and with time, treatment group, and the time by treatment interaction as fixed effects. A significant time by treatment effect on proportion of unprotected sex with husband (p = 0.01) was observed, and the rate of unprotected sex for intervention participants was lower than that of control participants at follow-up (RR = 0.83, 95 % CI = 0.75, 0.93). RHANI Wives is a promising model for women at risk for HIV from husbands.

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Conflict of interest: Authors have no conflicts of interest to report.

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RHANI Wives randomized controlled trial recruitment and participation flow diagram
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Application of Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) and Theory of Gender and Power (TGP) to the RHANI Wives intervention for wives at risk for HIV from husbands in India. Dashed line around box indicates factors targeted by RHANI Wives intervention via education, problem solving and or skills building
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