Testing for HIV in Dental Care Settings

Dec 1, 2017 | Journal Publications

In an effort to better understand the experience of administering HIV testing in dental care settings so as to ultimately be able to promote the practice on a grander scale, CHAS Committee Member Harold Pollack and colleagues qualitatively interviewed 37 dentists and...

Intimate Partner Violence, HIV, and Migration

Oct 27, 2017 | Journal Publications

Previous studies have documented the relationship between intimate partner violence victimization and increased risk of HIV in women. It is also known that migrant women are disproportionately affected by these co-occurring problems, but few have explored why....

Network Approach to HIV Tracing Shows Promise

Sep 26, 2017 | Journal Publications

The Transmission Reduction Intervention Project (TRIP) is an HIV tracing intervention which prioritizes newly infected individuals and their social networks. According to a study co-authored by CHAS Fellow John Schneider: “If a person recruited by TRIP has...

Marijuana’s Effects on the HIV Care Continuum

Mar 6, 2017 | Journal Publications

CHAS Fellows Dexter Voisin and John Schneider were part of a team that sought to understand the relationship of marijuana use and continued HIV care specifically for young black men who have sex with men (YBMSM). Prior research has shown that YBMSM have the highest...