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Howard Brown Health’s Center for Education, Research and Advocacy (ERA) conducts rigorous community-based clinical and behavioral research, supports the next generation of LGBTQ healthcare professionals, and advances policies that affirm the lives of LGBTQ people.
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Howard Brown Health is proud to partner with University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) researchers on “A Qualitative Study of the Experience of Immediate Antiretroviral Therapy Among Urban Persons with Newly Diagnosed HIV,” recently published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases. Researchers at UCSF and Howard Brown found people newly diagnosed with HIV who were offered immediate access to HIV medication at time of diagnosis were highly accepting of the offer, viewing it as a natural next step providing a sense of control and mitigating anxiety around the psychosocial challenges of an HIV diagnosis.
Also known as Rapid ART, this emerging model of care for people living with HIV updates most currently used approaches which delay medication start up to a month or more after diagnosis. Howard Brown is grateful to offer this exciting model of care through our Same Day Start Rapid ART program, as well as same day access to PrEP through our full continuum of services. While Rapid ART has already been found safe and effective, these findings point to its acceptability among community members.
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New Collaboration to Support
LGBTQ Health With App
Social & Behavioral Research is excited to announce the collaboration study titled, Pilot Testing an App-Based, Self-Compassion Intervention Among Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals Newly Diagnosed with HIV, with Steve N. Du Bois, Ph.D. from The Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Dr. Du Bois has partnered with Howard Brown for over 15 years acting in roles from Recruiter to Principal Investigator. This study aims to design, create, and pilot an app-based self-compassion intervention to reduce self-stigma, increase healthcare treatment engagement, and improve overall health among sexual and gender minority individuals who recently HIV seroconverted. Currently the project is awaiting IRB approval and hopes to begin implementation in the upcoming months.
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If you are a cisgender man or transgender woman, 16 years old and up, and at high risk for acquiring HIV, you qualify for a research study where all medication and study related tests are provided at no cost!
For more information, including the possible risks and benefits of participating, please contact ClinicalResearch@howardbrown.org or call 773.572.5116
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Investigators from Brown University are studying different approaches to help people with HIV manage their use of alcohol in a healthy way. The study is funded by the National Institutes on Health. You do not have to be interested in changing your drinking to participate! Participants will be compensated up to $230 for completing all study procedures.
To learn more about this research study and find out if you might be eligible, call Ayla at Brown University at 401.863.6858. You can also go online to see if you might be eligible by completing a brief survey at: sites.brown.edu/reach.
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Stay tuned - More recruitment for focus groups will begin in the next month.
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Federal Policy Update
October on Capitol Hill has been a very busy month as members of Congress raced the clock to address four critical and time-sensitive issues: government shutdown, the debt ceiling, a 1 trillion dollar infrastructure bill and a 3.5 trillion dollar reconciliation bill or the Build Back Better Act. These bills address a wide arrange of issues such as healthcare, climate change, funding for roads and bridges, and other progressive social policies.
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Congratulations to the Midwest LQBTQ Health Symposium Planning Team – Andrei Akimov, Cec Hardacker, Ray McMaher, Jory Zhang, and Gabi Mulder, ERA and everyone at Howard Brown who helped the symposium run smoothly and successfully! Over 730 of people attended this year’s symposium from 31 states and three countries.
Participants were able hear from researchers, practitioners, and community members on a wide variety of topics including innovative approaches in HIV treatment and preventions, the health and well-being of LGBTQ+ elders, the impact of racism on the health of LGBTQ+ people of color, and community based participatory research on transgender health.
If you want to re-watch a session or check out a presentation you missed, you are able to access all MLHS virtual hub. All the recorded keynotes and breakout sessions will be available on demand for 30 days.
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