Vital Voices: HIV Prevention and Care Interventions Developed for Disproportionately Affected Communities by Historically Underrepresented, Early-Career Scientists

Autor: Yannine Estrada, Andres Camacho-Gonzalez, Souhail M. Malavé-Rivera, Jacob J. van den Berg, Sophia A. Hussen, Guillermo Prado, Omar Martinez, Carlos E. Rodríguez-Díaz, Errol L. Fields, De Marc A. Hickson, Yzette Lanier, Bridgette M. Brawner, Pamela Payne-Foster, Madeline Y. Sutton
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science)
Sociology and Political Science
education
Psychological intervention
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
HIV Infections
medicine.disease_cause
Article
Men who have sex with men
Sexual and Gender Minorities
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Intervention (counseling)
Epidemiology
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Social determinants of health
Early career
Homosexuality
Male
Interventions
African american
030505 public health
business.industry
Hispanic/Latinx
Health Policy
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health
HIV
virus diseases
Hispanic or Latino
Black/African American
United States
Anthropology
Family medicine
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis
Historically underrepresented scientists
0305 other medical science
business
Zdroj: Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
ISSN: 2196-8837
2197-3792
DOI: 10.1007/s40615-020-00908-2
Popis: Background HIV prevention interventions which support engagement in care and increased awareness of biomedical options, including pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), are highly desired for disproportionately affected Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx and gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) populations in the United States (US). However, in almost 40 years of HIV research, few interventions have been developed directly by and for these priority populations in domestic counties most at risk. We submit that interventions developed by early-career scientists who identify with and work directly with affected subgroups, and which include social and structural determinants of health, are vital as culturally tailored HIV prevention and care tools. Methods We reviewed and summarized interventions developed from 2007 to 2020 by historically underrepresented early-career HIV prevention scientists in a federally funded research mentoring program. We mapped these interventions to determine which were in jurisdictions deemed as high priority (based on HIV burden) by national prevention strategies. Results We summarized 11 HIV interventions; 10 (91%) of the 11 interventions are in geographic areas where HIV disparities are most concentrated and where new HIV prevention and care activities are focused. Each intervention addresses critical social and structural determinants of health disparities, and successfully reaches priority populations. Conclusion Focused funding that supports historically underrepresented scientists and their HIV prevention and care intervention research can help facilitate reaching national goals to reduce HIV-related disparities and end the HIV epidemic. Maintaining these funding streams should remain a priority as one of the tools for national HIV prevention.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
Externí odkaz: