The following stigma-related interventions were conducted in this state.
The intervention, "As Much As I Can," is an immersive theatre production designed to reduce HIV-related stigma and discrimination towards Black sexual minority men. It aims to catalyze conversations, model empathy, and inspire action towards HIV prevention by depicting real-life challenges faced by this community. The study evaluates the impact of this intervention on behavioral intentions related to HIV prevention and stigma reduction.
The intervention involves a comprehensive training program for Community Health Workers (CHWs) and their supervisors, focusing on HIV-specific content and core competency training. The program was grounded in the Popular Education model and the CHW Core Consensus Competency (C3) framework, with 80 hours of training for CHWs and 20 hours for supervisors, delivered over 1.5 years through in-person and virtual sessions. The aim was to improve CHW integration into the HIV care team, enhance skills and confidence, and improve health outcomes for people with HIV.
The intervention, Connect to Protect (C2P), aims to advance structural changes to reduce adolescents' risk of HIV exposure by improving access to health information, condoms, and HIV testing. It involves community coalitions led by adolescent medicine clinical units and technical support staff, with objectives such as eliminating parental consent requirements for HIV testing, increasing access to adolescent-friendly HIV testing, and creating safe zones for at-risk adolescents. The intervention assesses the impact of these changes on health behaviors through annual data collection from adolescents over a 4 to 5 year period.
The Connect-to-Protect (C2P) intervention is a 10-year community mobilization effort aimed at creating structural changes to reduce HIV exposure among at-risk youth. It involves establishing coalitions that select and implement structural change objectives to improve the local risk environment for targeted youth populations. The intervention targets local policies, practices, and resource availability to reduce risk among youth, focusing on populations such as YMSM, injecting drug users, and high-risk young women of color. The evaluation used an observational study design due to the impracticality of a randomized controlled trial.
The study aimed to enhance treatment and care for virally unsuppressed MSM living with HIV by using case management to increase viral suppression rates. The intervention involved randomizing participants into either a standard of care (SOC) arm or an enhanced case management (CM) arm, which included health education, clinical care coordination, medication adherence support, and social service assistance. The primary outcome was viral suppression.
The iENGAGE intervention is designed to help individuals newly entering HIV care adjust to living with HIV and improve treatment adherence and viral suppression. It consists of four face-to-face sessions over 48 weeks, tailored to improve information, motivation, and behavioral skills. The sessions include education on HIV care, skills building, and addressing barriers to treatment adherence, including HIV-related stigma. The intervention aims to reduce internalized HIV-related stigma and is evaluated in a randomized controlled trial, with a focus on how depressive symptoms and coping styles moderate its effects.
The iENGAGE intervention is designed to help individuals newly entering HIV care adjust to living with HIV and improve treatment adherence and viral suppression. It consists of four face-to-face sessions over 48 weeks, tailored to improve information, motivation, and behavioral skills. The sessions include education on HIV care, skills building, and addressing barriers to treatment adherence, including HIV-related stigma. The intervention aims to reduce internalized HIV-related stigma and is evaluated in a randomized controlled trial, with a focus on how depressive symptoms and coping styles moderate its effects.
The aim of the article is to evaluate the effectiveness of Project PrIDE, a CDC-funded initiative aimed at expanding PrEP services for men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender persons through health department programs. The intervention involved identifying priority populations, referring them to PrEP providers, and increasing provider capacity, with a focus on health equity and addressing barriers to PrEP use.
The intervention was a social marketing campaign called "Sólo Se Vive Una Vez" (You Only Live Once) implemented in Baltimore, Maryland, from June 22, 2018, to January 12, 2019. The campaign aimed to increase HIV testing by addressing stigmatizing beliefs among Latinos. It was a multilevel campaign that included messages addressing common HIV-related stigmatizing beliefs and barriers to testing. The paper assesses the effects of this campaign on HIV-related stigma beliefs and testing behaviors among the Latino community in Baltimore.
Have you ever felt that the police refused to protect you because you have sex with men?
Have you ever felt scared to be in public places because you have sex with men?
Have you ever been verbally harassed and felt it was because you have sex with men?
Has someone ever physically hurt you (pushed, shoved, slapped, hit, kicked, choked or otherwise physically hurt you), and do you believe any of these experiences of physical violence was/were related to the fact that you have sex with men?
Have you ever been forced to have sex when you did not want to (by forced, we mean physically forced or coerced to have sex, or penetrated with an object), and do you believe any of these experiences of sexual violence were related to the fact that you have sex with men?
Have you ever felt excluded from family activities because you have sex with men?
Have you ever felt that family members have made discriminatory remarks or gossiped about you because you have sex with men?
Have you ever felt afraid to go to health care services because you worry someone may treat you poorly because you have sex with men?
Have you ever avoided going to health care services because you worry someone may treat you poorly because you have sex with men?
Have you ever felt that the police refused to protect you because you have sex with men?
Have you ever felt scared to be in public places because you have sex with men?
Have you ever been verbally harassed and felt it was because you have sex with men?
Has someone ever physically hurt you (pushed, shoved, slapped, hit, kicked, choked or otherwise physically hurt you), and do you believe any of these experiences of physical violence was/were related to the fact that you have sex with men?
Have you ever been forced to have sex when you did not want to (by forced, we mean physically forced or coerced to have sex, or penetrated with an object), and do you believe any of these experiences of sexual violence were related to the fact that you have sex with men?
Have you ever felt excluded from family activities because you have sex with men?
Have you ever felt that family members have made discriminatory remarks or gossiped about you because you have sex with men?
Have you ever felt afraid to go to health care services because you worry someone may treat you poorly because you have sex with men?
Have you ever avoided going to health care services because you worry someone may treat you poorly because you have sex with men?