A strengths-based telehealth coaching intervention was delivered to youth at-risk for or living with HIV in Los Angeles and New Orleans within the context of several linked HIV prevention and treatment continua studies. We used a choice-based framework and qualitative methods to analyze strengths assessment data, which revealed intrapersonal, interpersonal, and structural factors that influenced participants’ sexual health decision-making, including decisions regarding PrEP use, condom use, and other strategies. These results demonstrate the utility of self-determination and choice-based frameworks in sexual health promotion efforts for youth.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (Task Force) published final recommendation statements on HIV screening and HIV prevention. Based on its review of the evidence, the Task Force recommends that clinicians screen for HIV in everyone ages 15 to 65 years and all pregnant people. Younger adolescents and older adults at increased risk for HIV should also be screened. The Task Force also recommends that clinicians offer pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)—a pill that helps prevent HIV—to people at high risk of HIV.
Poster presentation by Carla Del Cid, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences that provides an overview of HIV among youth, a significant and increasing problem. The poster presentation describes how more than half of adolescent MSM report having condomless sex in the past 12 months and one-third of MSM use gay dating applications to meet sexual partners. Internet sex-seekers have more frequent anal intercourse, more previously diagnosed sexual transmitted infections, and are twice as more likely to engage sexual encounters without a condom.
This policy brief examines the recently proposed AB999, which would require the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to develop a five-year plan to make condoms available in all California prisons. AB999 would instruct CDCR to use funds from the budget to provide condoms and condom dispensing machines at all California prisons by December 2019.
This TLC facilitator manual aims to have youths select the contraceptive and protection methods which are best for them, learn how to use male and female condoms, and select the sexual acts which both protect them and give them pleasure.
This TLC facilitator manual aims to have youths identify the pros and cons of telling their sexual partners that they are HIV positive, help them make a decision about whether to tell their sexual partners that they are HIV positive, and have them explore the ethical issues in telling a partner.
This TLC facilitator manual aims to have youths identify the barriers and problems in trying to get partners to accept condoms in the relationship, help them practice how to negotiate condom use with their partners, and help them report increased self-efficacy for talking to partners about condom use.
This TLC facilitator manual aims to have youths explore the pros and cons of refusing unprotected sex, identify and confront the ethical decisions in refusing unprotected sex, and practice how to refuse unprotected sex.