Building effective multilevel HIV prevention partnerships with Black men who have sex with men: experience from HPTN 073, a pre-exposure prophylaxis study in three US cities.

Darrell P Wheeler,Geetha Beauchamp,Leo Wilton,Lynda Marie Emel,Manya Magnus,Sheldon D Fields,Ying Q Chen,Jonathan Lucas,Christopher Hucks‐Ortiz,Irene Kuo,Steven Shoptaw,Laron E Nelson,Craig Hutchinson,Kenneth H Mayer,Lisa Hightow‐Weidman,C Chauncey Watson

doi:10.1002/jia2.25180

Abstract

Building effective multilevel HIV prevention partnerships with Black men who have sex with men: experience from HPTN 073, a pre-exposure prophylaxis study in three US cities.

Highlights

Myriad structural characteristics, including poor health, poverty, stigma, high rates of incarceration, inadequate housing, lack of health insurance, decreased educational attainment and unemployment, impede recruitment and retention of Black men who have sex with men (BMSM) in studies [6,7]
Just one demonstration project cannot overcome this full range of barriers
In the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 073 study discussed in this view point article, we focused on what we perceived to be primary factors precluding adequate study of HIV prevention interventions among

Summary

Introduction

Myriad structural characteristics, including poor health, poverty, stigma, high rates of incarceration, inadequate housing, lack of health insurance, decreased educational attainment and unemployment, impede recruitment and retention of BMSM in studies [6,7]. BMSM: lack of indigenous scientific leadership evident throughout the HIV prevention research field; and low BMSM enrolment in most PrEP studies, including the initial iPrEX trial itself [2,9].

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