Document Type
Article
Source Publication Title
AIDS Care
Abstract
Community-clinic linkages may help communities increase HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake. Referrals from community-based organizations may be particularly important for linking Black men who have sex with men (MSM) to PrEP. This study describes PrEP referral and HIV/STI prevention networks among organizations that serve MSM in Houston, TX (N = 40), and Chicago, IL (N = 28), and compares network positions of organizations based on percentage of Black/African American clients. A majority of organizations conducted PrEP awareness/promotion activities, but fewer made PrEP referrals, with little overlap between the collaboration and referral networks. The networks tended to have a densely connected core group of organizations and more a peripheral group of organizations linking into the core with relatively few times among themselves; this core/periphery structure is efficient, but vulnerable to disruptions. The percentage of Black/African American clients organizations served was not related to most measures of network centrality. However, in Houston's collaboration network, higher Black-serving organizations tended not to hold as influential positions for controlling communications or flows of resources. The finding indicate a potential to leverage collaborations into PrEP referral pathways to enhance PrEP promotion efforts and identify opportunities to address racial disparities in PrEP uptake. [This is an original manuscript / pre-print of an article published by Taylor & Francis in AIDS Care on June 2021, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2021.1936445]
Disciplines
Social and Behavioral Sciences | Social Work
Publication Date
6-1-2021
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Rebecca, Mauldin; Tamara, Rawwad; Muhammad, Amith; Lisa, Kuhns; John, Schneider; and Kayo, Fujimoto, "Community-Clinic Linkages for Promoting HIV Prevention: Organizational Networks for PrEP Client Referrals and Collaborations" (2021). Social Work Faculty Publications & Presentations. 69.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/socialwork_facpubs/69