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.
This presentation by Kathryn Macapagal, PhD, and Jim Pickett was part of strategy #1 panel (2024 National EHE Meeting). The presentation provided background on PrEP4Teens and described the formative research leading to the PrEP4Teens project. The presentation highlighted the challenges in research and implementation, as well as highlighting the success of the creative think tanks and creative workshops.
This policy brief provides lessons learned from the longer-standing experiences of delivering Long Acting Injectables (LAIs) for other chronic conditions in the fields of mental health and addiction offering insights into the use of newly available LAIs for HIV prevention and treatment.
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.
Presentation by Dr. Abenaa A. Jones that focused on substance use, HIV and associated risk behaviors, and experiences of violence are prevalent and often inextricably linked among women who use drugs, particularly those involved in the criminal justice system. The presentation will explore the syndemic of substance use, HIV, and violence, along with the development of an all-female and trauma-informed intervention to reduce the incidence and adverse effects of these syndemic issues.
Presentation by Naira Setrakian that described patterns of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use and switching between event-driven PrEP and daily PrEP regimens in a population of men who have sex (MSM) in
Hanoi, Vietnam. Data from a large PrEP clinic at Hanoi Medical University show that switching PrEP regimens is common and results in longer periods of PrEP use.
Presentation by Lynn Nguyen and William Dyer that examines women living with HIV/AIDS (WLHA) and the additional and unique need to seek sexual and reproductive health services. WLHA’s maternal health journeys can be shaped by the cultural norms and resources that exist in their society. This study sought to understand if and how WLHA’s family planning, pregnancy, and motherhood experiences could be influenced by the patriarchal culture,
gender roles, and HIV stigma in Vietnam, specifically.
Presentation by Khadesia Howell that aims to better understand intersectional stigma and discrimination and its effects on mental health, as well as to improve intersectional stigma assessment tools. It is a qualitative study executed by doing in-depth semi-structured interviews as a way for Black SMM to ‘think aloud’ and tell their stories and experiences. From this we were able to better understand how this marginalized group responds to stigma and discrimination and how they interact with intersectional stigma assessment tools.