Open AccessRole of Social Networks and Social Norms in Future PrEP Use in a Racially Diverse Sample of At-Risk Women and Members of Their Social Networks
Author(s) -
Laura Johnson,
Harold D. Green,
Brandon Koch,
Jamila K. Stockman,
Marisa Felsher,
Alexis M. Roth,
Karla D. Wagner
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.162
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1944-7884
pISSN - 1525-4135
DOI - 10.1097/qai.0000000000002571
Subject(s) - odds , psychological intervention , social network (sociolinguistics) , normative , odds ratio , demography , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , psychology , social psychology , medicine , social support , gerontology , family medicine , logistic regression , sociology , psychiatry , political science , law , social media
Despite the efficacy of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in reducing the risk of HIV infection, uptake remains low among many who are most vulnerable to HIV, such as Black and Latinx women. Interventions that target social networks to encourage at-risk women to initiate PrEP are underused.