Young Women Living with HIV: Outcomes from a Targeted Secondary Prevention Empowerment Pilot Trial
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: UNLABELLED: Women account for 1 in 5 new HIV infections in the US, make up 24% of people living with HIV, and represent a quarter of AIDS diagnoses. Despite the need for continued prevention among young women living with HIV, there is very little in the literature on how best to reduce sexual risk and increase the health and well-being of young women living with HIV. This article explores the primary and secondary outcomes of a randomized controlled pilot trial of an intervention entitled EVOLUTION: Young Women Taking Charge and Growing Stronger. This behavioral intervention aimed to decrease sexual risk and empower young women living with HIV by enhancing young women's knowledge and skills pertaining to HIV risk reduction as well as to the factors that increase women's vulnerability, such as sexual inequality, gender, and power imbalances. Findings from this trial demonstrate that group-based behavioral interventions for young women living with HIV have promise to reduce the total number of sexual partners and reduce unprotected vaginal and anal intercourse. However, more work is needed to understand how best to address the challenges young women face in their day to day lives that impact their sexual risk as well as their overall health and access to care and treatment.
Source: AIDS Patient Care and STDs
Authors: Jennifer Brothers, Anna L. Hotton, Sybil G. Hosek, Gary W. Harper, M. Isabel Fernandez, The Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN)
Institution: John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2345657769