The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) is accepting submissions for a Special Issue on Social, Structural, and Behavioral Interventions for HIV Prevention.
Submission deadline: August 31, 2024
Special Issue Description:
Evidence-based and evidence-informed social, structural, and behavioral interventions have great potential to further reduce HIV transmission and can synergistically improve the acceptability, adoption, persistence, feasibility, appropriateness, penetration, and fidelity of biomedical interventions such as PrEP, PEP, and Treatment as Prevention (TasP). Biobehavioral interventions that combine social and medical prevention approaches have a critical role in ending the HIV epidemic. Scale-up of these tools has not produced sufficient declines in HIV incidence to reach global prevention targets, in part due to social, behavioral, implementation, and structural barriers that prevent available services from reaching populations who could benefit from them. More work is needed to improve health equity and to ensure that these tools effectively reach the key populations most impacted by HIV, including gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM); transgender people; people involved in sex trade; people who inject drugs; and people living with HIV. Racism, sexism, transphobia, lack of economic opportunities, and other social injustices continue to present barriers to ending the HIV epidemic. Papers addressing these topics, from a range of country and regional contexts globally, are invited for this Special Issue and may include quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods original research on intervention development, adaptation, implementation, evaluation, and/or outcomes.
Guest Editors:
Dr. Greg Rebchook, Dr. Susan Kegeles, Dr. Sophia Zamudio-Haas. Division of Prevention Science: Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Prevention Research Center, Center of Excellence for Transgender Health, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
Publication Fee Information:
Although IJERPH requires that authors pay an article processing charge (APC) of 2500 CHF, we are able to provide a discount to a certain number of contributions. If you are interested in submitting a paper, please reach out to Dr. Greg Rebchook (greg.rebchook@ucsf.edu), and we will discuss if the IJERPH discount will apply to your submission.
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