This presentation is about how to design a public health campaign to increase awareness of long-acting injectable PrEP among Black men who have sex with men (BMSM) in Los Angeles County through community-driven recommendations. We conducted focus groups, which highlighted ideas about clear, factual messaging, authentic representation, trusted messengers, and careful visual choices to address stigma and medical mistrust among the BMSM community.
Public health campaigns offer one strategy to increase awareness of HIV prevention options among at-risk populations. However, what is currently lacking in the literature is research on the development of a long-acting injectable PrEP campaign for disproportionately affected populations. Therefore, this study solicited community recommendations from LMSM for a campaign to raise awareness of LAI PrEP among this population in LAC.
This analysis explores how loneliness and substance use are related to different HIV risk outcomes, including PrEP use, STI incidence, condomless anal intercourse, transactional sex, sex while using drugs or alcohol, and number of sex partners. This longitudinal analysis is explored among a cohort of partnered sexual minority men in the United States with high prevalences of intimate partner violence and racial/ethnic minorities.
The Los Angeles County PharmPrEP program leveraged California SB 159 to enable community pharmacies to initiate PrEP and PEP and expand HIV prevention access beyond traditional clinics. Across eight pharmacies, the program successfully reached priority populations to initiate new PrEP starts, demonstrated high client and staff satisfaction, and achieved linkage to ongoing medical care. The findings support community pharmacies as acceptable, feasible, and effective settings for equitable HIV testing and prevention initiation.
This presentation reviews current evidence on patient and provider attitudes, feasibility, acceptability, and implementation barriers related to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) delivery in emergency departments (EDs), which serve as key access points for populations at increased HIV risk, including unhoused people and people who use drugs (PWUD). The presentation highlights findings demonstrating that ED-based PrEP is feasible and acceptable when paired with patient-centered education, navigation, and care coordination, particularly through dedicated navigator or same-day initiation models. It concludes by discussing priorities for future research, including stigma reduction, low-barrier and equity-oriented strategies for implementation, and the impact of ED-initiated PrEP on adherence, retention, and HIV incidence.
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.
We examined the relationship between violence/coercion and PrEP acceptability among cisgender female sex workers and transgender sex workers in urban West Bengal, India. We found very high rates of violence and coercion among participants, particularly among transgender sex workers. We also found that the relationship between coercion/violence and PrEP willingness was conditional on gender.
Hosted by our Equitable Injectable PrEP in LA County Initiative, this workshop featured a panel presentation from staff at the Division of HIV and STD Programs on current and future plans to expand PrEP use in Los Angeles County.
This global health seminar featured Dr. Dvora Joseph Davey who focused on research to address equitable delivery of HIV and STI interventions, focusing on a case study of oral and injectable PrEP, and STI management, in pregnant and lactating people, in South Africa.
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.