The disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS on African Americans is a significant public health challenge. The complex constellation of individual, social, and environmental factors influencing transmission, require ecological solutions that recognize these multiple levels of influence and actively involve communities. This article describes the formation of a community-based coalition and highlights three initiatives it has undertaken in the areas of mobile HIV testing, HIV education, and faith-based work to improve HIV services for African Americans.
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Objective: To summarize antiretroviral therapy (ART) use in the setting of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD).
Design: Cross-sectional analysis.
Methods: Descriptive analysis of ART regimens and dose of nucleoside/nucleotide reverse-transcriptase inhibitors (NRTI) in people with HIV and ESKD (dialysis, kidney transplantation, or estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) <15 mL/min/1.
Int J STD AIDS
January 2025
Department of Public Health, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Türkiye.
Background: Pregnant women living with HIV are known to be at higher risk of depression than pregnant women without HIV. Accompanied by a systematic literature review, the aim of this study was to determine the global prevalence of depression in pregnant women living with HIV.
Methods: PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar and Web of Science databases were searched.
JMIR Res Protoc
January 2025
South African Medical Research Council/University of Johannesburg Pan African Centre for Epidemics Research Extramural Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Background: HIV testing is the cornerstone of HIV prevention and a pivotal step in realizing the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) goal of ending AIDS by 2030. Despite the availability of relevant survey data, there exists a research gap in using machine learning (ML) to analyze and predict HIV testing among adults in South Africa. Further investigation is needed to bridge this knowledge gap and inform evidence-based interventions to improve HIV testing.
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December 2025
Office of Vice President, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, University of Windsor (Ontario), Windsor, Canada.
African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) women are overrepresented among new HIV diagnoses due to social and structural factors. This study seeks to create, implement, and evaluate a community-based peer-led intervention to improve access to HIV prevention and care for ACB women in Canada. This multisite, five-year project, using community-based participatory research, implementation science and evaluation frameworks, will be implemented in five non-iterative phases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To understand how Black or African American women living with HIV (WLH) experience different types of stigma in their daily lives.
Design: Secondary analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from a recent clinical trial in Baltimore, Maryland.
Methods: Quantitative data were collected in the baseline survey, and qualitative data were gathered during 6-month follow-up focus group and individual interviews.
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