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.
This HIV Grand Rounds session discussed the experience of working with locally trained “peer-leaders” to distribute HIV self-test kits to fellow men in two fishing communities in Uganda, with a focus on HIV testing uptake, linkage to HIV care, and examining associated challenges.
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
Panel discussion by Deja Cabrera (The San Diego LGBT Community Center), Antonia D’orsay (Borrego Health), and Victoria Castro (El/La Para TransLatinas) part of the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) Regional Learning Collaborative session 15. The presentations discussed how to provide culturally competent and inclusive HIV services for the trans community.
CHIPTS and the San Diego CFAR hosted a Worlds AIDS Day event in December 2022. Researchers from CHIPTS and the SD CFAR came together to reflect on the WAD2021 highlighting their innovative research and community perspectives on how we can work together to address inequities and end the HIV epidemic. Described in this presentation are three research studies to test the effectiveness of interventions in improving health outcomes among populations at-risk or currently living with HIV who have experienced incarceration (LINK2, MEPS, and BARS).
Panel discussion by Alejandro Chavez, Dr. Alicia Morehead-Gee, Jacqueline Nazarian (AltaMed Health Services), Christopher Artalejo-Price (San Francisco AIDS Foundation), and Wendy Garland (Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Division of HIV and STD Programs) part of the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) Regional Learning Collaborative session 13. The presentations highlighted each organizations public health communications and media campaign strategies to disseminate HIV-related information and connect community members to HIV services.
Oral presentation by Miguel Bujanda from REACH LA at the Delivery of Telehealth in Clinical Care and Research Interventions: Challenges, Barriers, Success, and Future Considerations conference on June 2021. The presentation discusses the importance of developing a strong partnership with in-person PrEP providers, establish a strong remote and internal linkage to care program, and increasing treatment referral network for nonlocal clients.
Panel discussion by Gabriel Maldonado (TruEvolution), Dr. David Gere (UCLA Art & Global Health Center), Alejandra Aguilar and Karla Morales (East Los Angeles Women’s Center) part of the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) Regional Learning Collaborative session 7. The presentations discussed strategies and approaches to address HIV stigma from expert panelists serving communities in California’s EHE Phase 1 counties. HIV stigma negatively affects the health and well-being of people with HIV, and it stops people at-risk for HIV from seeking prevention and testing services.