Volume 9, Issue 8

PLWH: Overcoming Post-Incarceration Care Disengagement

In this issue:

People living with HIV who’ve had criminal legal involvement face significant challenges that complicate their ability to remain in the HIV care continuum. Many, while incarcerated, have stopped treatment, and once back in the community have been reluctant to resume ART. Why? What are the key drivers behind their disengagement from care? What can clinicians do to encourage these patients to return to treatment? What strategies have been tried, and what’s been shown to work? What does the evidence say?

Join us as guest author Asa Clemenzi-Allen, MD, MAS, from the UCSF School of Medicine, discusses these and other concerns in effectively managing formerly incarcerated PLWH in this issue of eHIV Review. 

Learning objective:

Describe interventions that improve outcomes for people living with or at risk for HIV with criminal justice involvement.

Author:

A Asa Clemenzi-Allen, MD, MAS
A Asa Clemenzi-Allen, MD, MAS

Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine (Volunteer)
Division of HIV, ID and Global Medicine; University of California, San Francisco

Program Directors:

Justin Alves, RN, FNP-BC, ACRN, CARN, CNE

Nurse Educator
Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA
(he/him/his)

Matthew Spinelli, MD, MAS

Assistant Professor
HIV, ID, and Global Medicine
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco, California
(he/him/his)

Ethel D. Weld, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Division of Infectious Diseases
Division of Clinical Pharmacology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
(she/her/hers)

Length of activity:

0.5 hour Physicians
0.5 contact hour Nurses

Launch date: October 22, 2024
Expiration date: October 21, 2026