TAKE on HIV

Innovations in HIV/HCV Care – papers published on Health Promotion Practice Journal (HPP)

September 26, 2023 • Publications

Four articles authored by Dr. Wari Allison, the TAKE on HIV Program Director, and several of her team members, Trisha Melhado, Aro Choi and Keito Kawasaki were published in a special collection entitled “Innovations in HIV/HCV Care” in Health Promotion Practice Journal (HPP), a peer-reviewed public health journal from The Society for Public Health Education.

These papers are the result of the Special Project of National Significance, “Curing Hepatitis C among People of Color Living with HIV”, which was funded in 2017 by Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSAgov), HHS Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. The work represented in these papers concluded in 2022.

Dr. Allison was a co-recipient of this HRSA funding, alongside Dr. Merceditas Villanueva, associate professor of medicine in internal medicine and director of the HIV/AIDS program at the Yale University School of Medicine.

“HCV and HIV exist as a syndemic, and if we are to eliminate HCV and end the HIV epidemic in the U.S., the kind of work presented in this collection of papers is vital,” Allison said.

Open access to the collection: https://journals.sagepub.com/hpp/september-focus-issue-collection?pbEditor=true
Read more about this special collection here: https://www.unthsc.edu/newsroom/story/hsc-vps-hiv-hcv-papers-added-to-special-collection/