HIV Care Engagement and Quality of Life Among People Living with HIV
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Infectious Diseases, Chronic Diseases, and Disease Prevention".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 47
Special Issue Editor
Interests: HIV care engagement; HIV stigma; intersectionality; intersectional stigma; sexual and gender minorities; medication adherence; social determinants of health; mental health; substance use; ethnic and racial disparities
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past four decades, advances in biomedical treatment of HIV have shifted HIV from a terminal diagnosis to a livable and treatable chronic illness, allowing people living with HIV to live fuller, healthier lives. In spite of these achievements, there are racial, ethnic, gender, and geographic disparities in healthcare access, HIV care engagement, medication adherence, viral suppression, and quality of life. Biobehavioral, community, and structural interventions and strategies are needed to achieve equity in HIV care outcomes and quality of life, particularly among the most marginalized members of society. Racism, sexism, economic oppression, transphobia, homophobia and heterosexism, HIV stigma, and their intersections continue to influence the health outcomes and the overall well-being and lived experiences of people living with HIV. This Special Issue welcomes qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research and literature reviews focused on HIV care engagement and quality of life among people living with HIV, as well as the influencing socio-structural factors. Papers focused on marginalized populations from a range of regional contexts globally are welcome.
Dr. Chadwick K. Campbell
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- quality of life
- HIV care engagement
- ART adherence
- HIV stigma
- intersectionality
- intersectional stigma
- social and structural determinants
- HIV clinical outcomes
- long-acting injectable ART
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