Senior Scientist Dr. Doug White’s Team Publishes Paper on HIV PreventED Program

In the latest volume of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Senior Scientist Dr. Doug White and his team published an article entitled “Outcomes of an Emergency Department Program to Identify and Link Patients at Increased Risk for Acquiring HIV Infection to Outpatient HIV Prevention Services: The HIV PreventED Program”.  The HIV PreventED Program, funded in part by a grant from Gilead Sciences to the Levitt Center, was implemented to increase access to HIV prevention services for ED patients.  

The paper concluded that a navigator focused on providing ED-based HIV prevention counseling and linkage to outpatient services is feasible. Strategies to more efficiently identify ED patients at higher risk for HIV acquisition, such as automated identification of risk data from the electronic health record, and policies to improve follow-up and the receipt of PrEP, such as same-day PrEP initiation, should be prospectively evaluated.