The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), 1 of the 27 institutes of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded University of Pennsylvania’s Florence Momplaisir, MD, and John B. Jemmott III, Ph.D., much than $3 cardinal to survey interventions to amended attraction for radical with minoritized identities surviving with HIV.
Headshot of John B. Jemmott III successful a suit and tie
John B. Jemmott III, Ph.D.
The aesculapian tract has made large strides successful improving attraction for HIV successful caller years, but the HIV epidemic is not implicit — and it disproportionately affects radical and taste number populations. Black patients relationship for 41% of caller HIV diagnoses but acquisition the lowest rates of retention successful HIV attraction and viral suppression erstwhile compared to different radical and taste groups.
Dr. Momplaisir, an Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases astatine the Perelman School of Medicine and a elder chap astatine Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and Dr. Jemmott, the Kenneth B. Clark Professor of Communication and Psychiatry astatine the Annenberg School for Communication and the Perelman School of Medicine question to code the structural inequities successful HIV attraction successful the U.S. by moving with clinics to trim structural racism and discrimination.
Florence Momplaisir, MD,
Florence Momplaisir, MD
Over the adjacent 5 years, Drs. Momplaisir and Jemmott volition enactment with HIV clinics successful Philadelphia to measure however their organizational culture, climate, and workers’ attitudes (collectively known arsenic organizational societal context) uncover structural racism and favoritism that negatively affects diligent care. Then, they volition analyse whether an involution designed to trim structural racism by improving the organizational societal discourse tin amended HIV attraction outcomes. Although radical disparities successful HIV attraction person been known for immoderate time, this is the archetypal survey to trial an involution targeting the session discourse to code radical disparities.
With this grant, Drs. Momplaisir and Jemmott program to beforehand the knowing of structural racism and discrimination’s interaction connected HIV attraction outcomes and instrumentality a method to amended accessibility, responsiveness, and continuity of attraction wrong idiosyncratic HIV clinics.
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