Tag Archives: HIV/AIDS

Making PrEP Accessible to Patients Experiencing Homelessness

By | November 9, 2023

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has gone from a deadly infection to a manageable health condition in the last thirty years. Today, we have medications available that can treat those with HIV and prevent HIV in uninfected people. Pre-exposure prophylaxis, also known as PrEP, is a medication given to individuals without HIV to keep them from… Read More »

Rural Prisons Create Risk of Miscalculating County Health Statistics

The 2020 Census is complete and the results will be released soon. Because of how we count people in prison, there may be inaccurate demographics and a virtual overestimate of people living and accessing services in rural communities. In this two-part series, we look at how rural prisons can skew county-level analyses of rural demographics… Read More »

Five principles for developing digital clinic-based, behavior-change health interventions

 In this post, we describe five principles that guided the development of Positive Health Check, a clinic-based digital health intervention for HIV-positive patients, aimed at making it acceptable and feasible in a clinic setting.