This presentation by Susanne Doblecki-Lewis, MD was part of strategy #3 panel (2024 National EHE Meeting). This presentation highlighted lessons learned across multiple EHE supplements, including how mobile clinics can increase equitable reach of HIV prevention services and how social network strategies are promising for further increasing the reach of HIV testing and PrEP.
This presentation by Lynn Matthews, MD, MPH, and DeAndra Tuyishime, MAEd, CHES, RPCV was part of strategy #2 panel (2024 National EHE Meeting). The presentation examined rural U.S. challenges in accessing HIV testing, mobile HIV counseling and testing as a way to increase testing coverage, and a pilot implementation project that aims to increase mobile testing in rural Alabama.
Presentation by Harsh Agarwal and Mark Erwin that examines how telehealth is often touted as a solution to overcome several PrEP barriers. This study explores how PrEP retention compared for clients who accessed it via Telehealth versus In clinic clients. Further, this study examined inequities in each group and then compared those inequities with each other.
Presentation by Taj Morgan that described how we used human-centered design to develop an innovative mobile app to improve HIV care continuum outcomes and overall well-being among young Black gay and bisexual men living with HIV. This process, which involved co-creating the app with end users and HIV service providers, resulted in a program with high feasibility, acceptability, and likely uptake.
Youth enrolled in several linked HIV prevention and treatment continua studies who participated in a telehealth coaching intervention completed a strengths assessment, and qualitative data on mental health strengths was analyzed using thematic analysis and a resilience lens. Youth self-described mental health strengths included intrapersonal resilience assets (protective traits, stress management activities, feeling positive despite current mental health challenges, and no current mental health challenges) and external resilience resources (social/emotional support, therapy/counseling, and use of mental health medication). These results highlight the utility of strengths-based intervention methods and resilience for youth at-risk for and living with HIV.
This presentation will discuss the perspectives of a Community Advisory Board (CAB) on the usability of Discord as a virtual village. We will explore the benefits and drawbacks of this platform for the purpose of this study, based on the opinions expressed by the CAB. Lessons learned from this experience and how to improve future studies will be shared.
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.