Abstract
In the United States, transgender women are disproportionately affected by HIV. However, few evidence-based prevention interventions exist for this key population. We describe two promising, locally developed interventions that are currently being implemented and evaluated through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Combination HIV Prevention for Transgender Women Project: (a) ChiCAS, designed to promote the uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), condom use, and medically supervised hormone therapy among Spanish-speaking transgender Latinas, and (b) TransLife Care, designed to address the structural drivers of HIV risk through access to housing, employment, legal services, and medical services, including HIV preventive care (e.g., PrEP use) among racially/ethnically diverse urban transgender women. If the evaluation trials determine that these interventions are effective, they will be among the first such interventions for use with transgender women incorporating PrEP, thereby contributing to the evidence-based resources that may be used to reduce HIV risk among this population.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 345-360 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | AIDS Education and Prevention |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2021 |
Funding
Scott D. Rhodes, PhD, MPH, Jorge Alonzo, JD, and Lilli Mann-Jackson, MPH are affiliated with the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy and CTSI Program in Community-Engaged Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Lisa M. Kuhns, PhD, MPH, Robert Garofalo, MD, MPH, and Amy K. Johnson, PhD, are affiliated with Northwestern University, Department of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, and the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Potocsnak Family Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Chicago, Illinois. Abigail Muldoon, MA, is also affiliated with the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Potocs-nak Family Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Chicago, Illinois. Jasmine Alexander, Kaiji Evans, Reyna Ortiz, Josie Lynne Paul, MA, Judy Perloff, MSW, LCSW, and Kevin Pleasant are affiliated with the Chicago House and Social Service Agency, Chicago, Illinois. Patricia A. Bessler, MPH, Cari Courtenay-Quirk, PhD, Damian J. Denson, PhD, MPH, Carla A. Galindo, MPH, and Deborah J. Gelaude, MA, are affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia. Anna L. Hot-ton, PhD, MPH, is affiliated with the Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Beth A. Reboussin, PhD, is affiliated with the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Lucero Refugio Aviles and Scott Trent are affiliated with the Triad Health Project, Greensboro, North Carolina. Eunyoung Y. Song is affiliated with Health Quality Partners, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Amanda E. Tanner, PhD, MPH, is affiliated with the University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina. The first two authors are the Principal Investigators for the ChiCAS and TLC projects (respectively) and subsequent coauthors are project staff listed in alphabetical order. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This work was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to Wake Forest School of Medicine under cooperative agreement U01PS005137 and Chicago House and Social Service Agency under cooperative agreement U01PS005140, and by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health (grant UL1TR001420). Address correspondence to Scott D. Rhodes, PhD, MPH, Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Blvd., Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1063. E-mail: [email protected]
Keywords
- Intervention
- Minority
- PrEP
- Transgender
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine
