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HIV Care Access During the COVID-19 Pandemic as Perceived by Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups Served by the Ryan White Program, Miami-Dade County, Florida
The Ryan White Program (RWP) in Miami-Dade County, Florida made several modifications to keep HIV care accessible during the COVID-19 Pandemic, including expanding telehealth services, increasing access to HIV medications, and waiving required lab tests for service recertification. We assessed ease...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8899832/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35243926 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23259582221084536 |
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author | Trepka, Mary Jo Ward, Melissa K. Ladner, Robert A. Sheehan, Diana M. Li, Tan Ibarra, Cynthia Gbadamosi, Semiu O. Ibañez, Gladys E. Jean-Gilles, Michele |
author_facet | Trepka, Mary Jo Ward, Melissa K. Ladner, Robert A. Sheehan, Diana M. Li, Tan Ibarra, Cynthia Gbadamosi, Semiu O. Ibañez, Gladys E. Jean-Gilles, Michele |
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description | The Ryan White Program (RWP) in Miami-Dade County, Florida made several modifications to keep HIV care accessible during the COVID-19 Pandemic, including expanding telehealth services, increasing access to HIV medications, and waiving required lab tests for service recertification. We assessed ease of access to medical providers, medical case managers, and antiretroviral medications during the COVID-19 Pandemic among 298 Non-Hispanic Black, Hispanic, and Haitian people with HIV (PWH) served by the RWP Part A, Miami-Dade County, Florida using a telephone-administered survey between October 2020 and January 2021. Overall, most clients reported similar or better access compared to before the Pandemic. Use of videocalls to communicate with HIV medical providers varied by race/ethnicity: Hispanics (49.6%), Non-Hispanic Blacks (37.7%), and Haitian clients (16.0%). Results suggest the modifications helped maintain access to care during an unprecedented health crisis. Permanently adopting many of these modifications should be considered to continue to facilitate access to care. |
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spelling | pubmed-88998322022-03-08 HIV Care Access During the COVID-19 Pandemic as Perceived by Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups Served by the Ryan White Program, Miami-Dade County, Florida Trepka, Mary Jo Ward, Melissa K. Ladner, Robert A. Sheehan, Diana M. Li, Tan Ibarra, Cynthia Gbadamosi, Semiu O. Ibañez, Gladys E. Jean-Gilles, Michele J Int Assoc Provid AIDS Care Original Research Article The Ryan White Program (RWP) in Miami-Dade County, Florida made several modifications to keep HIV care accessible during the COVID-19 Pandemic, including expanding telehealth services, increasing access to HIV medications, and waiving required lab tests for service recertification. We assessed ease of access to medical providers, medical case managers, and antiretroviral medications during the COVID-19 Pandemic among 298 Non-Hispanic Black, Hispanic, and Haitian people with HIV (PWH) served by the RWP Part A, Miami-Dade County, Florida using a telephone-administered survey between October 2020 and January 2021. Overall, most clients reported similar or better access compared to before the Pandemic. Use of videocalls to communicate with HIV medical providers varied by race/ethnicity: Hispanics (49.6%), Non-Hispanic Blacks (37.7%), and Haitian clients (16.0%). Results suggest the modifications helped maintain access to care during an unprecedented health crisis. Permanently adopting many of these modifications should be considered to continue to facilitate access to care. SAGE Publications 2022-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8899832/ /pubmed/35243926 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23259582221084536 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Article Trepka, Mary Jo Ward, Melissa K. Ladner, Robert A. Sheehan, Diana M. Li, Tan Ibarra, Cynthia Gbadamosi, Semiu O. Ibañez, Gladys E. Jean-Gilles, Michele HIV Care Access During the COVID-19 Pandemic as Perceived by Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups Served by the Ryan White Program, Miami-Dade County, Florida |
title | HIV Care Access During the COVID-19 Pandemic as Perceived by Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups Served by the Ryan White Program, Miami-Dade County, Florida |
title_full | HIV Care Access During the COVID-19 Pandemic as Perceived by Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups Served by the Ryan White Program, Miami-Dade County, Florida |
title_fullStr | HIV Care Access During the COVID-19 Pandemic as Perceived by Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups Served by the Ryan White Program, Miami-Dade County, Florida |
title_full_unstemmed | HIV Care Access During the COVID-19 Pandemic as Perceived by Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups Served by the Ryan White Program, Miami-Dade County, Florida |
title_short | HIV Care Access During the COVID-19 Pandemic as Perceived by Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups Served by the Ryan White Program, Miami-Dade County, Florida |
title_sort | hiv care access during the covid-19 pandemic as perceived by racial/ethnic minority groups served by the ryan white program, miami-dade county, florida |
topic | Original Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8899832/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35243926 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23259582221084536 |
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