Session: Context and Populations: HIV/AIDS Across the Care Continuum in the United States (Society for Prevention Research 22nd Annual Meeting)

2-036 Context and Populations: HIV/AIDS Across the Care Continuum in the United States

Schedule:
Wednesday, May 28, 2014: 2:45 PM-4:15 PM
Columbia Foyer (Hyatt Regency Washington)
Theme: HIV/AIDS Prevention
Symposium Organizer:
Amanda E. Tanner
Discussant:
Jacqueline Lloyd
SESSION INTRODUCTION: Risk for HIV acquisition is influenced by a complex interplay of individual and structural level factors. Addressing critical issues such as HIV risk reduction, testing, and care engagement requires multi-level approaches, community involvement, and the inclusion of multiple stakeholders. Likewise approaches utlizing multiple methods are necessary for both increasing our understanding of indviduals’ lives and evaluating and refining interventions designed to address their specific health needs.

Accordingly, the goal of this session is to present three unique studies focused across the HIV care continuum of prevention, linkage to care, and care engagement. The symposium supports the conference theme of Prevention and Promotion Efforts Focused on HIV/AIDSby bringing together researchers from a variety of institutions who apply prevention messages across different contexts (e.g. schools, clinics, and neighborhoods), and geographic locales.

Paper 1 will present an overview of Familias Unidas, a Hispanic-specific, family-based preventive intervention found to be efficacious in preventing and reducing adolescent substance use and HIV sexual risk behaviors in multiple randomized clinical trials.

Paper 2 will present an overview of the SMILE program, designed to facilitate linkage to, and engagement in, care for adolescents newly diagnosed with HIV in 15 Adolescent Medicine Trials Network clinic sites across 13 U.S. cities.

Paper 3 will describe the associations of neighborhood conditions and HIV management parameters among HIV+ individuals currently engaged in care and discuss opportunities for intervention.

At the conclusion of the presentations, the discussant will describe unifying themes and insights and moderate a discussion about different approaches to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment between the presenters and the symposium attendees.  It is expected that the diversity of presented prevention research as well as contexts and populations will be appealing to the SPR meeting participants.


* noted as presenting author
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The Effects of Familias Undias on Substance Use, HIV Sexual Risk Behaviors, and Family Functioning on Hispanic Youth and Their Families: Results from an Effectiveness Study
Guillermo J. Prado, PhD, University of Miami Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health; Hilda Maria Pantin, PhD, University of Miami; Maria Tapia, MSW, University of Miami; Shi Huang, PhD, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine; Alexa Rosen, MPH, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine; C. Hendricks Brown, PhD, Northwestern University; Krystal Sardinas, MPH, University of Miami
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An Overview of the SMILE Program: Care Linkage and Engagement for Newly Diagnosed HIV+ Adolescents within Fifteen Adolescent Medicine Clinics in the United States
Amanda E. Tanner, PhD, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Morgan Philbin, PhD, Columbia University; Anna DuVal, MPH, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Jonathon M. Ellen, MD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Bill Kapogiannis, MD, National Institute of Child and Human Development; J. Dennis Fortenberry, MD, Indiana University
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How Do Neighborhood Resources Influence HIV Management?
Enbal Shacham, PhD, Saint Louis University; Ryan Murphy, MA, Saint Louis University; Mark Bloomfield, MA, Saint Louis University; Rachel Presti, MD PhD, Saint Louis University