Using GPS-defined venue-based affiliation networks among Black sexually minoritized men and transgender women to identify locations for HIV prevention interventions.

Autor: Chen YT; Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Electronic address: yentyng.chen@rutgers.edu., Shrader CH; Arizona State University, College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Phoenix, AZ, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA., Duncan DT; Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA., Rudolph AE; Abington, PA, USA., Regan SD; Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA., Kim B; Department of Surgery, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA., Pagkas-Bather J; Chicago Center for HIV Elimination, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA., Knox J; Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; New York State Psychiatric Institute, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York, NY, USA; Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA., Fujimoto K; Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, Department of Health Promotion & Behavioral Science, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science at Houston, Houston, TX, USA., Schneider JA; Chicago Center for HIV Elimination, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Annals of epidemiology [Ann Epidemiol] 2024 Aug; Vol. 96, pp. 80-87. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 04.
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2024.07.001
Abstrakt: Purpose: HIV biomedical intervention uptake is suboptimal among Black sexually minoritized men (SMM) and transgender women (TW). Venues where people meet and interact shape HIV-related risk and prevention behaviors. We aimed to construct GPS-defined venue-based affiliation networks and identify the unique set of venues that could maximize reach of HIV biomedical interventions among Black SMM and TW.
Methods: We used baseline survey and GPS data from 272 Black SMM and TW in the Neighborhoods and Networks (N2) Cohort Study in Chicago, Illinois (2018-2019). We mapped participants' GPS data to the nearest pre-identified SMM- and TW-friendly venue (n = 222) to construct affiliation networks. Network analyses were performed to identify influential venues that can yield high reach to intervention candidates.
Results: Participants were affiliated with 75.5 % of all pre-identified venues based on GPS data. Two influential venues were identified in the non-PrEP use network, which when combined, could reach 52.5 % of participants not taking PrEP. Participants that could be reached through these two influential venues reported more non-main sex partners than participants not affiliated with either venue (p = 0.049).
Conclusion: We demonstrate a potential for GPS-defined venue-based affiliation networks to identify unique combinations of venues that could maximize the impact of HIV prevention interventions.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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