Trial reportAIDS and behavior2013
Using community health workers to improve clinical outcomes among people living with HIV: a randomized controlled trial.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Community Health Workers to Increase Cancer Screening: 3 Community Guide Systematic Reviews.American journal of preventive medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Challenges in the Evaluation of Interventions to Improve Engagement Along the HIV Care Continuum in the United States: A Systematic Review.AIDS and behavior · 2017Pooled it
- Service delivery interventions to improve adolescents' linkage, retention and adherence to antiretroviral therapy and HIV care.Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · 2015Pooled it
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- Pivoting in the pandemic: how HIV-focused community-health workers addressed COVID-19 disparities.Frontiers in health services · 2026Article
- St. Louis enhancing engagement and retention (STEER) in HIV/AIDS care: a participatory intersectional needs assessment for intervention and implementation planning.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Community health workers: developing roles in public health dementia efforts in the United States.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Improving HIV Outcomes in Miami's Black populations with clinic-based community health workers protocol: The integrated navigation and support for treatment adherence, counseling, and research (INSTACARE) randomized controlled trial.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Tailoring HIV Care for Black Populations: A Pilot Feasibility Prospective Cohort Study.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- Can Community Health Workers in Miami Disrupt Disparities among Black People Living with HIV: A Qualitative Analysis.The open AIDS journal · 2024Article
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- You gotta walk the walk to talk the talk: protocol for a feasibility study of the Happy Older Latino Adults (HOLA) health promotion intervention for older HIV-positive Latino men.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2023Article
- Untold Risk: HIV Transmission Behaviors in Miami's Historically Black Communities.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2022Article
- Health literacy, health outcomes and community health worker utilization: a cohort study in HIV primary care.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Indiana community health workers: challenges and opportunities for workforce development.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- HIV Patient Navigation in the United States: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis of Navigators' Experiences.Health promotion practice · 2022Article
- "He Gave Me Spirit and Hope": Client Experiences with the Implementation of Community Health Worker Programs in HIV Care.AIDS patient care and STDs · 2021Article
- A Participatory Curricula for Community Health Workers and Supervisors to Increase HIV Health Outcomes.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Association between social support and viral load in adults on highly active antiretroviral therapy - Witbank, South Africa.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2020Article
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Abstract
AIDS-related mortality remains a leading cause of preventable death among African-Americans. We sought to determine if community health workers could improve clinical outcomes among vulnerable African-Americans living with HIV in Miami, Florida. We recruited 91 medically indigent persons with HIV viral loads ≥1,000 and/or a CD4 cell count ≤350. Patients were randomized to a community health worker (CHW) intervention or control group. Viral load and CD4 cell count data were abstracted from electronic medical records. At 12 months, the mean VL in the intervention group was log 0.9 copies/μL lower than the control group. The CD4 counts were not significantly different among the groups. Compared to the control group, patients randomized to CHWs experienced statistically significant improvements in HIV viral load. Larger multi-site studies of longer duration are needed to determine whether CHWs should be incorporated into standard treatment models for vulnerable populations living with HIV.
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