Operational Research to Improve HIV Prevention in the United States

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• Alternative Title:
  J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr
• Personal Author:
  Herbst, Jeffrey H. ; Glassman, Marlene ; Carey, James W. ; Painter, Thomas M. ; Gelaude, Deborah J. ; Fasula, Amy M. ; Raiford, Jerris L. ; Freeman, Arin E. ; Harshbarger, Camilla ; Viall, Abigail H. ; Purcell, David W.
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• Description:
  The HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States continues despite several recent noteworthy advances in HIV prevention. Contemporary approaches to HIV prevention involve implementing combinations of biomedical, behavioral, and structural interventions in novel ways to achieve high levels of impact on the epidemic. Methods are needed to develop optimal combinations of approaches for improving efficiency, effectiveness, and scalability. This article argues that operational research offers promise as a valuable tool for addressing these issues. We define operational research relative to domestic HIV prevention, identify and illustrate how operational research can improve HIV prevention, and pose a series of questions to guide future operational research. Operational research can help achieve national HIV prevention goals of reducing new infections, improving access to care and optimization of health outcomes of people living with HIV, and reducing HIV-related health disparities.
• Subjects:
  • Anti-HIV Agents
  • HIV Infections
  • Humans
  • Operations Research
  • Preventive Health Services
  • United States
• Keywords:
  • combination prevention
  • HIV/AIDS prevention
  • operational research
  • treatment as prevention
• Source:
  J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 59(5):530-536
• Pubmed ID:
  22217681
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4676559
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  59
• Issue:
  5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/36807/cdc_36807_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 971.71 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:aeb4e34bcb8649bceff0840f0f4b016fafcf60cde35c9e3c1162aefa84252fcc