Volume 10, Issue 6

Youth & HIV: Understanding the Unique Challenges

In this issue:

In this issue we focus on youth: the 13 to 24-year-old population responsible for nearly 20% of new HIV diagnoses in the US. Their entry into the HIV care continuum has been slow, hindered by barriers that are just now beginning to be recognized and overcome. What’s been done, what’s being done, and what needs to be done to better educate and motivate this critically important under-diagnosed and under-treated community? 

Join Dr. David C. Griffith from the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, as he shares his knowledge and expertise in identifying and managing youth at risk for becoming infected, as well as those already living with, HIV — in this issue of eHIV Review. 

Learning objective:

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

Author:

David C. Griffith, MD
David C. Griffith, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Program Directors:

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

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

Matthew Spinelli, MD, MAS

Associate Professor
HIV, ID, and Global Medicine
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco, CA
(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, MD
(she/her/hers)

Length of activity:

0.5 hour Physicians
0.5 contact hour Nurses

Launch date: December 11, 2025
Expiration date: December 10, 2027