HIV Prevention and Mental Health Disparities
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 8787
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As we approach the fourth decade of the global HIV epidemic, treatment methods such as anti-retroviral therapies and pre-exposure prophylaxis have shaped the ways in which health providers and public health systems approach care and prevention. Yet even with such power biomedical resources, scholars, physicians, epidemiologists, nurses, social workers, and social scientist working to eradicate HIV must include actions that address the intractable intersection of oppressions that threaten the effectiveness of emergent prevention and intervention platforms. Barriers to effective care and treatment must address mental health and well-being, in combination with physical health. Accordingly, our knowledge base must look beyond basic science and issues of scalability to the social and lived environments that account for the disparate rates of disease burden across diverse groups. These include an increased likelihood of homelessness, exposure to violence, substance abuse, and criminal justice system involvement.
This Special Issue invites established and emergent scholars to submit manuscripts that challenge and advance translational approaches to services, programs, planning, policies, and care models to treat HIV and mental health, with the aim of achieving equality for all.
Dr. Laurens Van Sluytman
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- getting to zero
- AIDS care and treatment
- health inequality
- intersectionality
- mental health
- HIV prevention
