eHIV Review

Empowering Youth to Grow Up Healthy: Breaking Down Barriers and Improving HIV Outcomes in Adolescents Across the HIV Continuum of Care 

In this issue:

In this issue of eHIV Review, David Griffith, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, discusses evidence-based strategies for improving HIV outcomes for adolescents across the HIV continuum of care. These strategies include providing a safe space for adolescents to discuss their sexual health and sexual orientation during primary care visits, prescribing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to adolescents when appropriate, transitioning adolescents with HIV to long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy to improve treatment adherence, and ensuring that interventions to improve HIV outcomes in adolescents are multi-level and youth-focused. Clinicians need greater awareness of the unique needs of adolescents across the HIV care continuum and strategies to support them to improve HIV outcomes in this patient population. 

Learning objective:

Assess strategies to improve outcomes for young people with exposure to or living with HIV.