HIV Care and Prevention—Where Are We Now?
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 275
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
HIV/AIDs entered the global lexicon in 1981—four decades ago now. Over this forty-year period, grassroots organizations, the scientific community, and international agencies have mobilized funding, policies, and programs into communities throughout the world in an attempt to stall the progression of the epidemic. Now, in 2022, HIV/AIDS has become a manageable health condition, coverage for antiretrovirals has increased, and promising prevention approaches (pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP) have been adopted as key tools in ending the HIV epidemic worldwide. In spite of these advances, the incidence of HIV in parts of the world has risen, key populations (e.g., adolescent girls) remain disproportionately vulnerable to infection, structural and systemic drivers of HIV risk persist, and access to, as well as the implementation of, HIV prevention services have stalled. This Special Issue (HIV Care and Prevention—Where are We Now?) seeks to explore innovative solutions to persisting HIV prevention bottlenecks globally. Research studies can fall into one or more of the following categories: (1) novel intervention strategies addressing structural drivers of HIV (e.g., stigma, racism, and poverty); (2) strategies leveraging implementation science to assess and resolve barriers to the implementation of HIV prevention services operating at multiple (e.g., individual, provider, community or clinic, and policy) levels; and (3) developing as well as testing combined prevention approaches (e.g., those addressing physical health, mental health, substance use, and their co-occurrence simultaneously).
Dr. Megan Ramaiya
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- HIV
- global health
- implementation science
- integrated prevention
- structural drivers
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