Y+ leadership initiative: Ensuring a strong and sustainable positive community through the leadership development of young people living with HIV

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Torres Aguilera
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Young People ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Living With Hiv

scholarly journals P16.15 Children and young people living with hiv/aids in a state of north-eastern brazil

2015 ◽  
Vol 91 (Suppl 2) ◽  
pp. A217.1-A217
Author(s):  
CMD Florêncio ◽  
HO Alexandre ◽  
ICV Lima ◽  
VF Santos ◽  
MTG Galvão ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Eastern Brazil ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Aids

scholarly journals Reductions in Drug Use Among Young People Living with HIV

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 493-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Scott Comulada ◽  
Robert E. Weiss ◽  
William Cumberland ◽  
Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Living With Hiv

Improving the quality of life among young people living with HIV

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus ◽  
Debra A. Murphy ◽  
Richard G. Wight ◽  
Martha B. Lee ◽  
Marguerita Lightfoot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Young People ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Living With Hiv

scholarly journals Efficacy and Impact of Digital HIV Care Navigation in Young People Living With HIV in San Francisco, California: Prospective Study (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Arayasirikul ◽  
Caitlin Turner ◽  
Dillon Trujillo ◽  
Victory Le ◽  
Erin C Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Young People ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Hiv Care ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Care Continuum ◽  
Care Continuum ◽  
Living With Hiv

BACKGROUND Young people are disproportionately impacted by HIV infection and exhibit poor HIV care continuum outcomes. Mobile health (mHealth) interventions are promising approaches to meet the unique needs of young people living with HIV. Youth-focused interventions are needed to improve HIV care continuum outcomes. OBJECTIVE This study assessed the preliminary efficacy and impact of a digital HIV care navigation intervention among young people living with HIV in San Francisco. Health electronic navigation (eNavigation or eNav) is a 6-month, text message–based, digital HIV care navigation intervention, in which young people living with HIV are connected to their own HIV care navigator through text messaging to improve engagement in HIV primary care. METHODS This study had a single-arm, prospective, pre-post design. The analysis included 120 young men who have sex with men or transwomen living with HIV aged between 18 and 34 years. We analyzed self-reported sociobehavioral information pre- and postintervention at baseline and 6 months, which was collected using computer-assisted self-interviewing surveys. We characterized the sample and built generalized estimating equation (GEE) models to assess differences in HIV care continuum outcomes at baseline and 6 months. RESULTS The characteristics according to the intervention completion status were not different from those of the overall sample. The mean age of the participants was 27.75 years (SD 4.07). Most participants (103/120, 85.8%) identified as men, and the sample was racially/ethnically diverse. At baseline, majority (99/120, 82.5%) of the participants had recently received primary HIV care, yet this was more likely in those who completed the intervention than in those who did not (54/60, 90% vs 45/60, 75%; χ<sup>2</sup><sub>1</sub>=4.68, <i>P</i>=.03). More than half of the sample reported taking antiretroviral therapy (92/120, 76.7%) and having an undetectable viral load (65/120, 54.2%). The 6-month follow-up surveys were completed by 73.3% (88/120) of participants, and these participants were not characteristically different from the overall sample at baseline. GEE models indicated that participants had increased odds of viral suppression at 6 months as compared with baseline. No relevant additive or multiplicative interactions were noted on comparing outcome effects over time according to intervention completion. CONCLUSIONS Digital HIV care navigation fills a critical gap in public health and HIV care systems, making these systems more responsive and accountable to the needs of the most vulnerable individuals. Our intervention bridges the time between primary care visits with interactive, tailored, personalized, and peer-delivered social support; information; and motivational interviewing to scaffold behavioral change. This study is part of the next wave of system-informed mHealth intervention research that will offer potentially disruptive solutions to traditional in-person delivered interventions and improve the health of the most vulnerable individuals. INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT RR2-10.2196/16406

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