Fenway Health and Other Experts Say That to End HIV Epidemic, Address Health Disparities
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Despite coordinated national efforts to implement HIV services, the epidemic persists, especially in the South. It also disproportionately impacts marginalized groups, such as Black/African-American, and Latinx communities, women, people who use drugs, men who have sex with men (MSM), and other sexual and gender minorities. Recommendations to overcoming barriers to implementing HIV services include counseling, testing, treatment, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and syringe services programs. These services are critical to preventing new HIV transmissions and helping people living with HIV.
“We have an increasing array of biological interventions to improve people’s lives and to limit HIV spread, but the failure to attend to the social and structural factors that potentiate risk have limited the impact of new prevention modalities.” said Kenneth Mayer, MD of The Fenway Institute