HIV incidence among Los Angeles County (LAC) residents who accessed syphilis testing through the LAC Department of Public Health-supported HIV and STD testing programs was examined and compared to the timing of syphilis diagnoses. Cox proportional hazards models found that syphilis diagnosis was strongly associated with HIV acquisition after adjusting for demographic factors (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] = 2.96; 95% CI: 2.42-3.62; p <0.0001). Individuals with syphilis had 196% higher risk of HIV acquisition compared to those without syphilis.
In this presentation, Dr. Barrington will first provide a summary of the context of HIV prevention and care for transgender women in the Dominican Republic. She will then describe her collaborative mixed methods research process to develop and test an intervention to improve HIV care and treatment outcomes and promote overall wellbeing among transwomen with HIV in Santo Domingo.
In Los Angeles County (LAC), we implemented a cluster detection and response (CDR) social network strategy (SNS) among HIV molecular clusters with the goal of addressing service gaps and bringing individuals into HIV prevention and care, preventing further HIV transmission. SNSs have strong evidence of effectively reaching populations who may not otherwise test. The Community Health Ambassador Program (CHAP) used this strategy to distribute HIV self-test kits among the social, sexual, and behavioral networks of communities who may be at increased risk for HIV.
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).