Preventing HIV/AIDS through Interventions That Address the Social Determinants of Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 March 2024) | Viewed by 227
Special Issue Editors
Interests: HIV/AIDS; tuberculosis; social determinant of health; cash transfers; primary health care; impact evaluation methods
Interests: HIV/AIDS; social determinant of health; social protection; cash transfer interventions; poverty-related diseases; climate change; sustainable development goals (SDGs)
Interests: HIV/AIDS; social determinant of health; health inequities; socioeconomic disparities in health; poverty-related diseases; intersectional framework and public policies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The HIV/AIDS epidemic has caused more than 40 million deaths over the past several decades, and more than 38 million people are currently living with HIV worldwide.
Despite the large number of interventions for HIV/AIDS prevention, diagnosis, and treatment implemented since the beginning of the epidemic, HIV/AIDS continues to disproportionately affect many populations all over the world, causing 1.5 million individuals to be newly infected and 650,000 deaths every year.
The unequal burden distribution of HIV/AIDS is due to many factors, particularly Social Determinants of Health (SDH) such as socioeconomic status, transportation, housing, access to social assistance and healthcare services, discrimination by social grouping (e.g., race, gender, and class); and environmental stressors, which can all affect an individual's probability of acquiring and dying from HIV/AIDS.
The global consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the inflationary crisis have dramatically worsened situations related to SDH, increasing social vulnerabilities and socioeconomic inequalities worldwide.
Interventions that address the SDH by reaching and protecting the most vulnerable and discriminated populations could not only guarantee a more equitable burden of HIV/AIDS, but also allow us to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 3.3: ending the epidemic of AIDS.
Papers addressing these topics are invited to be submitted for this Special Issue, especially those combining a high academic standard coupled with a practical focus on evaluating the impact of interventions addressing SDH on HIV/AIDS that are designed for either specifically reducing the HIV/AIDS burden or generically improving SDH in the population.
Dr. Davide Rasella
Dr. Gabriel Alves De Sampaio Morais
Dr. Iracema Lua
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- HIV/AIDS
- social determinants of health
- health inequities
- social protection
- cash transfers
- social and behavioral interventions
- access to healthcare
- primary health care
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