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Use of Social Network Strategy Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men for HIV Testing, Linkage to Care, and Reengagement in Care, Tennessee, 2013-2016.
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- Respondent-driven sampling is more efficient than facility-based strategies at identifying undiagnosed people who inject drugs living with HIV in India.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2023Article
- Assessing the Prevalence and Determinants of Exposure-Influenced HIV Testing among a Sample of Pre- and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis-Naïve Young Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2022Article
- 'PrEP'ing Memphis: A qualitative process evaluation of peer navigation support.Evaluation and program planning · 2022Article
- Individual level peer interventions for gay and bisexual men who have sex with men between 2000 and 2020: A scoping review.PloS one · 2022Article
- Individual, community, and structural factors associated with linkage to HIV care among people diagnosed with HIV in Tennessee.PloS one · 2022Article
- HIV Education, Empathy, and Empowerment (HIVEInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- HIV Testing Strategies for Health Departments to End the Epidemic in the U.S.American journal of preventive medicine · 2021Review
- Social Network Interventions for HIV Transmission Elimination.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2020Review
- Online sex partner seeking and HIV testing frequency among young Black sexual minority men.Journal of HIV/AIDS & social services · 2020Article
- Learning by Doing: Lessons From the Care and Prevention in the United States Demonstration Project.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Article
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Abstract
objectivesTennessee was 1 of 8 states that received funding from the Care and Prevention in the United States Demonstration Project, which aimed to reduce HIV-related morbidity and mortality among racial/ethnic and sexual minority populations. The objective of this study was to describe implementation of a social network strategy (SNS) program, which leverages personal connections in social networks, to reach people with undiagnosed HIV infection for HIV testing. We targeted young black men who have sex with men (MSM) at 3 agencies in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, during 2013-2016.
methodsSpecialists at the 3 agencies identified MSM with and without diagnosed HIV infection (ie, recruiters) who could recruit members from their social networks for HIV testing (ie, network associates). Both recruiters and network associates received OraQuick rapid and confirmatory HIV tests. We used χ
resultsOf 1752 people who were tested for HIV in the SNS program, 158 (9.0%) tested positive; of these, 80 (50.6%) were newly diagnosed with HIV. Forty-seven of the 78 (60.3%) people who were previously diagnosed with HIV were not in care in the previous 12 months; of these, 27 (57.4%) were reengaged in medical care. Of 80 people newly diagnosed with HIV, 44 (55.0%) were linked to care.
conclusionsThe SNS program ascertained HIV status among a high-risk population in a heavily burdened region. Further program evaluation is needed to understand how to improve linkage to care among people with newly diagnosed HIV.
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