HIV testing uptake was improved in immigrants after peer interventions with multiple strategies were implemented. Strategies involving peer intervention could help improve HIV testing uptake in ...

Patricia Cioe, PhD, presented data at AIDS 2024 from a study that investigated the impact of peer support on people living with HIV who smoke, a group for whom there are higher rates of cardiac events ...

Large-scale HIV screening and peer support to connect people who inject drugs to HIV care successfully reduced uncontrolled HIV in this population by more than 40 percent, according to a new study ...

Peer support interventions in HIV care harness the lived experience of people living with HIV to promote adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART), retention in care and psychosocial wellbeing. These ...

A new University of California, Irvine-led study, called the HOPE (Harnessing Online Peer Education) HIV study, revealed that using peer-led online communities was successful in increasing HIV ...

Peer interventions for HIV prevention or care are widespread and widely endorsed, yet only recently have researchers begun to examine them empirically. We reviewed the literature, casting a wide net ...

LINCOLN, Ill. (WAND) — In 1993 the Illinois Department of Corrections launched its HIV/AIDS Peer Education Program. Under the IDOC Office of Health Services, the program was designed to serve as a ...