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.
Oral presentation by Jim Mangia, St. John’s Well Child & Family Center at the COVID-19 Community Leadership Summit in May 2021. The presentation describes the commitment to ending the COVID pandemic in South (and East, and Central) Los Angeles which includes efforts to mobilize tests and provide an inequitable distribution of test kits. Along with the testing and vaccination efforts the center provided triage services to prevent and monitor disease progression.
Call for applications for the 2021-22 South American Program in HIV Prevention Research (SAPHIR) training program. SAPHIR is a year-long training program in comprehensive HIV prevention research in Latin America for U.S. medical students and residents. Trainees participate in a structured program of didactic education and practical research in one of the major fields of HIV prevention (Behavioral Prevention, Biomedical Prevention, Antiretroviral Therapy, Epidemiology, or Basic/Translational Science).
Summary report of the Learning Session: HIV Exposed Children and Early Child Development on March 7, 2019. The report includes descriptions of the opening remarks by Thomas Coates, UCLA DGSOM, presentations by featured guests, and closing remarks. The presentations include background context, summary, and discussion points.
Oral presentation by Catherine Sandhofer at the Learning Session: HIV Exposed Children and Early Child Development on March 7, 2019 that discusses the impact of parent-child interactions in child development. The presentation describes a large variation in language environments that affects development and the positive results in the mathematical ability of children due to frequency of math talk between mothers and preschoolers.
Poster presentation by Melissa Medich, UCLA DGSOM Department of Family Medicine that describes a growing interest in engaging men and boys in health and development programs targeting the intersection of HIV risk, substance abuse, and violence. Masculinities or masculine identities shape both behaviors and provide opportunities for interventions. This paper examines an intervention using soccer and job training to engage and deliver activities for HIV prevention, substance abuse, and gender-based violence in a South African township in the Western Cape.
Poster presentation by Loc Q. Pham, Center for Community Health, the University of California, Los Angeles that provides an overview on a cross-sectional study was used to investigate the association between social support and motivation to change among people who use drugs (PWUD) living in community. The poster presentation also discusses methadone treatment status, and how social support is correlated with PWUD’s motivation to change.
Poster presentation by Diep Bich Nguyen, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior that provides an overview of a cross-sectional study reports risk factors of perceived occupational risk and confirms its positive association with negative attitude towards people who use drugs (PWUD) among community health workers (CHW) in Vietnam.
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.
Poster presentation by Benjamin Jones, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences that examines the effectiveness of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in preventing HIV infection when used as prescribed; however, PrEP uptake among high-risk youth has been suboptimal. The presentation discusses the many public health interventions have focused on raising awareness of PrEP, particularly among high-risk groups, including youth at risk for HIV