Survival, trust, and compassion: persistent HIV prevention concerns faced by Black sexual and gender minority communities in the US South – a qualitative study
Enhancing HIV prevention services for BSGM groups necessitates reducing healthcare access barriers and leveraging facilitators. Our findings informed an enhanced SNS intervention to increase HIV testing, prevention, and care linkage among BSGM in the Southern US.
Authors
- Ann M. Dennis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0687-9661)
- Maria Esposito (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4773-6993)
- Carol E. Golin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-3163)
- Ian Dale
- Dalton M. Craven (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1373-0173)
- Meagan Zarwell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3562-7415)
- Isabelle Duguid
- Jordyn McCrimmon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9900-3871)
- Eunice Okumu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4106-821X)
- Ujunwa F. Onyeama (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0455-7100)
- Jesse Strunk Elkins
- Matthew Zinck
- Sebastian Marin-Cespedes
- Alicia Diggs
- Marielle Indyg
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte (US)
- University of North Carolina Health Care (US)
- North Carolina State University (US)
- Department of Health (ZA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Public Health
- Published
- 2025-11-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1695474
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.79
Funders
- Center for AIDS Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill