This study examines how to optimize a conditional cash transfer (CCT) intervention to increase PrEP use among Black and Latinx men who have sex with men (MSM) in Los Angeles County. Findings from a discrete choice experiment reveal preferences for larger cash payments provided more frequently, with some variation in PrEP modality. These results highlight the potential of tailored CCT designs to improve PrEP uptake and advance national efforts to reduce new HIV transmissions among key populations.
This community workshop hosted by our Equitable Injectable PrEP in LA County Initiative featured a panel of Black and Latino/a cisgender MSM and transgender women (BLMSM/TW) who shared their experiences with injectable PrEP in Los Angeles County.
Presentation by Dr. Toluwani Adekunle that highlights the experiences of Black and Latine HIV care consumers that foster medical mistrust. These are experiences as pertaining to care consumers’ perceptions of healthcare provider behaviors that invoked feelings of stigma/discrimination, thereby influencing care consumers’ levels of trust and mistrust.
Presentation featuring Laura Hoyt D’Anna and Everardo Alvizo that describes their study aims to address the HIV epidemic by improving PrEP linkage, uptake, and retention among Black and Latinx same-gender loving men, transgender women, and other gender-diverse persons in Long Beach, CA. This is a mixed methods study designed to explore barriers and facilitators to engagement along the PrEP care continuum from the viewpoints of community members and current and potential PrEP providers. Findings will inform the following: 1) the Long Beach HIV/STI Strategic Plan, 2) a culturally appropriate PrEP readiness and facilitation tool, and 3) intervention opportunities to be studied in future research.
Data for the current project were collected as part of SMART, an ongoing pragmatic trial of an online HIV prevention intervention for adolescent sexual minority youth. Despite higher risk, few Latino youth reported ever having received an HIV test. Results suggest sexual health education and pediatricians are an important, but largely untapped, source of testing and could be further supported with familial support to end the epidemic
This report highlights the urgent need to consider innovative strategies to connect BLCW with PrEP services. As part of a NIMH EHE supplement project, the UCLA CHIPTS received funding to develop and pilot an implementation strategy to increase PrEP awareness and optimize PrEP uptake among BLCW through the use of the PlushCare telemedicine application.
This project was led by researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in collaboration with the California Community Foundation to advise and provide insights on how to reach communities of color and those hardly reached to educate, build trust, and disseminate vaccines in South Los Angeles given historical experiences with medical mistrust. The efforts center around three goals, which are to: (1) Facilitate community, public, private, and governmental partnerships to reduce, COVID-19 vaccine inequity. (2) Educate communities of color in South LA about the COVID-19 vaccines through virtual town halls, and (3) Navigate communities of color in South LA on how to access available COVID-19 vaccines.