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Learning from community-based HIV prevention to inform control and mitigation of the COVID-19 pandemic
The current COVID-19 pandemic and the likelihood of future viral pandemics demonstrate a need for strategic prevention campaigns that integrate biomedical, structural, and behavioral interventions within larger scale comprehensive public health initiatives. In Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prev...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9899509/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36750159 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2023.107445 |
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author | Abrams, Jasmine A. Rutledge, Jaleah Opara, Ijeoma |
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description | The current COVID-19 pandemic and the likelihood of future viral pandemics demonstrate a need for strategic prevention campaigns that integrate biomedical, structural, and behavioral interventions within larger scale comprehensive public health initiatives. In Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevention, community-based efforts have resulted in reductions in transmission rates, increases in testing, increases in biomedical prevention uptake, and increased engagement in secondary and tertiary prevention efforts. In this paper, we review three community-based strategies (health communication, accessible screening, and accessible prevention resources) that have demonstrated effectiveness in HIV prevention and offer recommendations for utilizing these strategies in the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, health communication strategies have positively influenced HIV testing behavior, sex communication, and condom use among HIV negative individuals and treatment initiation, treatment adherence, and retention in care among people living with HIV. In addition, studies have shown that improving accessibility of HIV screening and prevention resources in community venues such as schools, pharmacies, mobile-testing sites, churches, hair salons, and bars is useful for increasing the uptake of HIV testing, especially among disproportionately affected populations and those deemed hard to reach. Despite differences in modes of transmission, it is plausible that a synergistic multilevel response with emphasis on community-based efforts could lead to similar outcomes for the current COVID-19 pandemic and future viral pandemics. Community-based prevention strategies offer an opportunity to integrate, and bolster disconnected and siloed initiatives that achieve limited impacts independently. |
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spelling | pubmed-98995092023-02-06 Learning from community-based HIV prevention to inform control and mitigation of the COVID-19 pandemic Abrams, Jasmine A. Rutledge, Jaleah Opara, Ijeoma Prev Med Article The current COVID-19 pandemic and the likelihood of future viral pandemics demonstrate a need for strategic prevention campaigns that integrate biomedical, structural, and behavioral interventions within larger scale comprehensive public health initiatives. In Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevention, community-based efforts have resulted in reductions in transmission rates, increases in testing, increases in biomedical prevention uptake, and increased engagement in secondary and tertiary prevention efforts. In this paper, we review three community-based strategies (health communication, accessible screening, and accessible prevention resources) that have demonstrated effectiveness in HIV prevention and offer recommendations for utilizing these strategies in the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, health communication strategies have positively influenced HIV testing behavior, sex communication, and condom use among HIV negative individuals and treatment initiation, treatment adherence, and retention in care among people living with HIV. In addition, studies have shown that improving accessibility of HIV screening and prevention resources in community venues such as schools, pharmacies, mobile-testing sites, churches, hair salons, and bars is useful for increasing the uptake of HIV testing, especially among disproportionately affected populations and those deemed hard to reach. Despite differences in modes of transmission, it is plausible that a synergistic multilevel response with emphasis on community-based efforts could lead to similar outcomes for the current COVID-19 pandemic and future viral pandemics. Community-based prevention strategies offer an opportunity to integrate, and bolster disconnected and siloed initiatives that achieve limited impacts independently. Elsevier Inc. 2023-04 2023-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9899509/ /pubmed/36750159 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2023.107445 Text en © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Abrams, Jasmine A. Rutledge, Jaleah Opara, Ijeoma Learning from community-based HIV prevention to inform control and mitigation of the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Learning from community-based HIV prevention to inform control and mitigation of the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Learning from community-based HIV prevention to inform control and mitigation of the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Learning from community-based HIV prevention to inform control and mitigation of the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Learning from community-based HIV prevention to inform control and mitigation of the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Learning from community-based HIV prevention to inform control and mitigation of the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | learning from community-based hiv prevention to inform control and mitigation of the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9899509/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36750159 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2023.107445 |
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