We are excited to be guest editors for Clinics and Practice Special Issue: Advances in HIV Care: Innovations, Challenges, and Clinical Outcomes.
Ending the HIV epidemic as a public health threat requires universal access to HIV treatment and prevention, investments in communities and the social determinants of health, and the protection of human rights and dignity. Despite the progress in decreasing the number of new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths, there is geographic heterogeneity in this success and key populations, such as gender and sexual minorities, people who use drugs, adolescents and young adults, sex workers, and individuals involved in the criminal-legal system, continue to be disproportionately impacted by the HIV epidemic.
This Special Issue aims to present recent advances in HIV treatment and prevention that are responsive to the local needs of the populations disproportionately impacted by HIV. We welcome contributions addressing innovative care delivery (e.g. outside of traditional HIV treatment settings, integrated care models, use of multidisciplinary teams, non-physician led care teams, tele-medicine, permanent adaptations to care in response to COVID-19) and novel HIV treatment and prevention strategies (e.g. use of long-acting therapies in new populations, combination HIV treatment and prevention with other health conditions, promising therapeutics for HIV cure).
We anticipate that we will be able to offer reduced article processing charges for accepted submissions from author teams that doesn't have independent grant funding to submit journal submissions. As we are preparing to launch the special issue, we would like to gauge early interest in this special issue. If you believe that you have an article that will fit the scope of this special issue, please submit your information below. Please note that completing this survey does not guarantee article acceptance as all articles will undergo peer review. Additionally, you are agreeing to your information being shared with the Special Issue editorial group.