East Bay Consortium/ CRUSH (Connecting Resources for Urban Sexual Health)

Status:Ongoing
Phase:Demo Project
Principal Investigator(s):Jeff Burack, MD, Robert Grant, MD, MPH, Janet Myers, PhD
Objective:The overall goal of the CRUSH project is to enhance and extend a response to the local HIV/AIDS epidemic in Alameda County with a set of innovative, evidence-based interventions across the continuum of HIV prevention and care, targeting individuals and communities most vulnerable to HIV. The East Bay AIDS Center, in partnership with the University of California San Francisco's Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, the Gladstone Institutes, and several key community-based organizations, are engaging in a participatory partnership to enhance and implement HIV services which target the East Bay's highest risk population- young men who have sex with men (Y/MSM). Specifically, the CRUSH Project is designed to evaluate a combination of program approaches to address the sexual health care needs of young gay men of color and their sexual partners by enhancing the current program activities of the Downtown Youth Clinic (DYC).
Start Date
End Date
May 1, 2013
January 25, 2017
Enrollment:670
Age range: 18 Years ↔ 29 Years
Population:Cisgender Men, Cisgender Women, Gay and Bisexual Men Who Have Sex with Men