The following stigma-related interventions were conducted in this state.
Barbershop Talk With Brothers (BTWB)
Study & Intervention Summary
The article aims to describe the development and pilot testing of the "Barbershop Talk With Brothers" (BTWB) program, an HIV prevention intervention for heterosexual Black men. The intervention uses barbershops as venues to recruit participants and deliver the program, which is structured into three modules focusing on reducing sexual risk behaviors and enhancing community health. It is based on community-based participatory research principles.
The intervention, Connect to Protect (C2P), aims to advance structural changes to reduce adolescents' risk of HIV exposure by improving access to health information, condoms, and HIV testing. It involves community coalitions led by adolescent medicine clinical units and technical support staff, with objectives such as eliminating parental consent requirements for HIV testing, increasing access to adolescent-friendly HIV testing, and creating safe zones for at-risk adolescents. The intervention assesses the impact of these changes on health behaviors through annual data collection from adolescents over a 4 to 5 year period.
Connect-to-Protect (C2P) (individual health behavior outcomes)
Study & Intervention Summary
The Connect-to-Protect (C2P) intervention is a 10-year community mobilization effort aimed at creating structural changes to reduce HIV exposure among at-risk youth. It involves establishing coalitions that select and implement structural change objectives to improve the local risk environment for targeted youth populations. The intervention targets local policies, practices, and resource availability to reduce risk among youth, focusing on populations such as YMSM, injecting drug users, and high-risk young women of color. The evaluation used an observational study design due to the impracticality of a randomized controlled trial.
The aim of the article is to examine factors associated with HIV stigma and evaluate the effectiveness of a multi-component video, "Health Screenings for Life," in reducing HIV stigma. The intervention involves a 10-minute video that normalizes HIV, increases education about HIV testing, and promotes HIV status awareness using social cognitive theory. Participants viewed the video and completed pre- and post-video surveys to assess changes in HIV stigma.
Stigma Type Addressed
Not Specified
Study Population - Recipients
Other
Intervention Level
Organizational (healthcare, school)
Intervention Setting Addressed
Community (Faith-based organizations, barber shops, etc)
The aim of the article is to explore the acceptability, feasibility, and impact of six behavioral intervention components designed for African American/Black and Latino persons living with HIV (PLWH) with non-suppressed HIV viral load. The intervention components are health education, motivational interviewing sessions, pre-adherence skill building, peer mentorship, focused support groups, and navigation, grounded in a model integrating critical race theory, harm reduction, and self-determination theory to address structural and social barriers to HIV care.
The aim of the article is to examine HIV disclosure practices to family and intersectional stigma among Latino sexual minority men (LSMM) of Mexican and Puerto Rican origin with HIV in the USA. The intervention aimed to identify, link, and retain these individuals in HIV care through navigation services that addressed disclosure practices and stigma management. The interventions were implemented at nine demonstration sites and included specific curricula and informal conversations to support disclosure readiness and manage stigma.
HIV peer worker readiness training program by McKinney-Prupis et al. (2023)
Study & Intervention Summary
The study assesses the psychosocial impacts of a work readiness training and internship program for HIV peer workers in New York City. The intervention includes an eight-week training program focusing on work readiness skills to become health educators and patient navigators, followed by a six-month peer internship program. The program aims to improve psychosocial outcomes like self-esteem, depression, and internalized HIV stigma, as well as health-related behavioral outcomes such as medication adherence and patient self-advocacy.
HIV/STD-focused motion comic intervention by Willis et al. (2018)
Study & Intervention Summary
The study evaluated the effectiveness of a six-episode motion comic series in improving HIV/STD-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behavioral intentions among young people aged 15-24. The intervention aimed to reduce HIV/STD risk by delivering health messages through engaging narratives and characters. It was developed through focus groups and used an 80% to 20% entertainment-to-education ratio. The study found significant improvements in HIV stigma reduction, HIV knowledge increase, and behavioral intentions to engage in safe sex.
The intervention was a randomized controlled trial conducted in New York City with 180 Latino gay and bisexual men. It was based on empowerment theory and consisted of eight weekly sessions focusing on themes such as oppression, substance use, and self-efficacy. The aim was to reduce unsafe sex by empowering participants to make safer choices.
Stigma Type Addressed
Internalized, Perceived
Study Population - Recipients
MSM
Intervention Level
Interpersonal (Family/Friends)
Intervention Setting Addressed
Individual, Other
Mobile Augmented Screening (MAS)
Study & Intervention Summary
The intervention is a video-based tool called the Mobile Augmented Screening (MAS) tool, designed to destigmatize HIV and increase HIV test rates among youth. It features HIV-positive non-actors sharing their experiences and information about HIV testing and prevention, aiming to encourage young emergency department patients to report HIV risk and test for HIV.
Pharmacists as Resources Making Links to Comprehensive Testing Services (PHARM-Services)
Study & Intervention Summary
The aim of the article is to evaluate the effectiveness of a pharmacy-based intervention that combines HIV testing with chronic disease screening to reduce stigma and improve testing uptake among low-income black and Latino populations. The intervention includes three arms: a comprehensive arm with HIV testing, chronic disease screening, and a video; a video arm with HIV testing and the video; and a control arm with only HIV testing. The video aims to normalize HIV testing, increase awareness about drug use, and destigmatize drug use.
Stigma Type Addressed
Not Specified
Study Population - Recipients
Other
Intervention Level
Individual - Intrapersonal (Self)
Intervention Setting Addressed
Community (Faith-based organizations, barber shops, etc)
The article describes the Project ACCEPT intervention, a group-based behavioral program aimed at reducing HIV-related stigma in adolescents and young adults newly diagnosed with HIV. The intervention provides HIV/AIDS-related information, coping skills, and social support, guided by the Disability-Stress-Coping model and Social Cognitive Theory. It targets four dimensions of stigma: personalized stigma, disclosure concerns, negative self-image, and concern with public attitudes. The intervention was effective in reducing stigma for male participants but had mixed results for female participants, indicating a need for gender-specific interventions.
Project Adolescents Coping, Connecting, Empowering, and Protecting Together (ACCEPT) (intervention effect on HIV engagement outcomes)
Study & Intervention Summary
This study aimed to evaluate the impact of Project CHHANGE on reducing HIV stigma and homophobia in a high HIV prevalence neighborhood in NYC. Project CHHANGE was a multicomponent intervention that included workshops, pop-up events, and bus shelter ads to reduce community-level HIV stigma and homophobia. It aimed to increase visibility, contact with LGBTQ individuals and PLWHA, educate community members, enhance empathy, challenge stereotypes, and provide skills to interrupt stigma and homophobia.
Stigma Type Addressed
Not Specified
Study Population - Recipients
General (Everyone)
Intervention Level
Community
Intervention Setting Addressed
Community (Faith-based organizations, barber shops, etc)
The aim of the article is to describe the development and pilot testing of Project Eban, a Risk Reduction Intervention for HIV-serodiscordant African American couples. The intervention aims to address stigma, psychological distress, barriers to condom use, and lack of self-protection skills in a culturally congruent and relationship-centered manner, enhancing communication and self-protection skills to reduce STI risks while maintaining relationship quality.
The aim of the article is to examine the longitudinal relationships between HIV-related stigma and gains in HIV knowledge among at-risk African-American adolescents. The intervention, "Focus on Youth" (FOY), is a skill-based program designed to increase HIV knowledge and reduce risky behaviors, although it does not directly target stigma. It is compared with a general health promotion control group, "Promoting Health among Teens" (PHAT).
Project iMPPACS (impact of media campaign on stigma and HIV knowledge uptake)
Study & Intervention Summary
The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a culturally-tailored media intervention and a sexual-risk reduction curriculum (FOY) in reducing HIV-related stigma among African American adolescents. The intervention involved a randomized control trial with participants receiving either FOY or a general health curriculum (PHAT), with two cities receiving a media intervention to promote HIV-risk reduction behaviors.
The aim of the article is to evaluate the effectiveness of Project PrIDE, a CDC-funded initiative aimed at expanding PrEP services for men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender persons through health department programs. The intervention involved identifying priority populations, referring them to PrEP providers, and increasing provider capacity, with a focus on health equity and addressing barriers to PrEP use.
Stigma Type Addressed
Perceived
Study Population - Recipients
MSM, Transgender/Gender Diverse Individuals, Healthcare Providers/Staff
The Thrive With Me (TWM) study is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) that uses a virtual behavioral intervention to increase ART adherence and viral suppression among sexual minority men (SMM) living with HIV. The intervention includes peer support, ART information, and ART self-monitoring, and is guided by the information, motivation, and behavioral skills (IMB) model. Participants are randomized into either an experimental arm receiving the intervention for 5 months or a control arm receiving weekly HIV-related emails.
The weCare intervention study is a social media intervention designed to increase HIV care engagement among young gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) and transgender women living with HIV. It uses social media platforms to provide targeted messaging to improve care engagement and viral suppression among those newly diagnosed, not linked to care, out of care, or not virally suppressed.
Stigma Type Addressed
Internalized
Study Population - Recipients
General (PLHIV), MSM, Transgender/Gender Diverse Individuals
Intervention Level
Individual - Intrapersonal (Self)
Intervention Setting Addressed
Healthcare, Community (Faith-based organizations, barber shops, etc)
As of 2025, No: New York doesn't have HIV criminalization law but does have HIV-specific sentencing enhancements or No HIV-specific law
HATE CRIME DATA COLLECTION LAW
yes
As of 2025, Yes: New York requires hate crime data collection
HATE CRIMES BY YEAR
Number of Hate Crimes
0
500
1000
1500
71
953
1048
2021
2022
2023
Years
Data view:
Individual Item
Proportion
Have you ever felt that the police refused to protect you because you have sex with men?
10%
Have you ever felt scared to be in public places because you have sex with men?
39%
Have you ever been verbally harassed and felt it was because you have sex with men?
49%
Has someone ever physically hurt you (pushed, shoved, slapped, hit, kicked, choked or otherwise physically hurt you), and do you believe any of these experiences of physical violence was/were related to the fact that you have sex with men?
36%
Have you ever been forced to have sex when you did not want to (by forced, we mean physically forced or coerced to have sex, or penetrated with an object), and do you believe any of these experiences of sexual violence were related to the fact that you have sex with men?
33%
Individual Item
Proportion
Have you ever felt excluded from family activities because you have sex with men?
29%
Have you ever felt that family members have made discriminatory remarks or gossiped about you because you have sex with men?
47%
Individual Item
Proportion
Have you ever felt afraid to go to health care services because you worry someone may treat you poorly because you have sex with men?
23%
Have you ever avoided going to health care services because you worry someone may treat you poorly because you have sex with men?
18%
10.2%
Have you ever felt that the police refused to protect you because you have sex with men?
39.4%
Have you ever felt scared to be in public places because you have sex with men?
49.3%
Have you ever been verbally harassed and felt it was because you have sex with men?
35.6%
Has someone ever physically hurt you (pushed, shoved, slapped, hit, kicked, choked or otherwise physically hurt you), and do you believe any of these experiences of physical violence was/were related to the fact that you have sex with men?
32.5%
Have you ever been forced to have sex when you did not want to (by forced, we mean physically forced or coerced to have sex, or penetrated with an object), and do you believe any of these experiences of sexual violence were related to the fact that you have sex with men?
29.3%
Have you ever felt excluded from family activities because you have sex with men?
46.8%
Have you ever felt that family members have made discriminatory remarks or gossiped about you because you have sex with men?
22.8%
Have you ever felt afraid to go to health care services because you worry someone may treat you poorly because you have sex with men?
17.5%
Have you ever avoided going to health care services because you worry someone may treat you poorly because you have sex with men?
