The government--via the National Institutes of Health--is using blacks as guinea pigs...AGAIN!!
Global health organizations highlight engaging men and boys in preventing violence against women as a potentially impactful public health strategy. A "gender transformative" approach involves theory- and evidence- based practices to alter gender and sexuality norms that foster violence against women while promoting bystander intervention (i.e., giving boys skills to interrupt abusive behaviors they witness among peers) to reduce the perpetration of sexual violence (SV) and adolescent relationship abuse (ARA). This study aims to test, via a two arm cluster randomized controlled trial, a "gender transformative" SV/ARA perpetration prevention program titled "Boys Care" implemented in a community-based setting among African American adolescent males ages 14-17.
https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=8925762&icde=26523562