Alejandra Cabral

Radical Inclusion: The Practices and Approaches of Three Districts That Made Exclusion Rare for Students of All Backgrounds

Sean Darling-Hammond, Cindy Le, Demetrius Esclovon, Alejandra Cabral

Black students continue to face disproportionate exposure to harmful exclusionary practices. Research documents many districts where implementation of alternative policies preceded reductions in overall, but not Black, discipline rates. We thus identified “radically inclusive” districts where exclusion is rare, too, for Black …

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Barriers and facilitators to a combined strategy of HPV vaccination and cervical cancer screening among Mexican women

Leith Soledad León-Maldonado, Alejandra Cabral, Gabriela Pages, Brandon J. Brown et autres

HPV-FASTER is an innovative public health intervention combining HPV vaccination and HPV-based screening in adult women at the same visit. FASTER-Tlalpan adapted the combined HPV-FASTER strategy in Tlalpan, Mexico City for women aged 25-45 years. To understand the barriers and facilitators to …

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An Equity-Based Scoring System for Evaluating Surveillance-Related Harm in Public Health Crises

Bita Amani, Breann McAndrew, Mienah Zulfacar Sharif, Jamie N. Garcia et autres

Background: Although surveillance systems used to mitigate disasters serve essential public health functions, communities of color have experienced disproportionate harms (eg, criminalization) as a result of historic and enhanced surveillance. Methods: To address this, we developed and piloted a novel, equity-based scoring …

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Beyond HIV prevention: Additional individual and community-level benefits of PrEP among Latino gay and bisexual men

Ronald A. Brooks, Omar Nieto, Martin Santillan, Amanda S. Landrian et autres

BACKGROUND: HIV infections disproportionately impact Latino gay and bisexual men (GBM) in the United States. Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is a proven prevention strategy that can help reduce new HIV infections in this population. Unfortunately, PrEP adoption and persistence among Latino GBM remain …

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Challenges of Being Deaf and Aging With HIV: Focus Group Findings From Palm Springs, California

Michelle Didero, Alejandra Cabral, Andrea N. Polonijo, Poorna Kushalnagar et autres

Didero, Michelle MD; Cabral, Alejandra MPH; Polonijo, Andrea N. PhD, MPH; Kushalnagar, Poorna PhD; Brown, Brandon PhD, MPH Author Information

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Grassroots to Grasstops: A Stepwise Approach to Identify Community Health Priorities

Ann Marie Cheney, Christina M. Reaves, Mary Figueroa, Alejandra Cabral et autres

PrEP discontinuation among Latino/a and Black MSM and transgender women: A need for PrEP support services

Omar Nieto, Ronald A. Brooks, Amanda S. Landrian, Alejandra Cabral et autres

PURPOSE: Disparities persist in HIV infection among Black and Latino men who have sex with men (BLMSM) and Black and Latina transgender women (BLTW). Increasing uptake and subsequent consistent use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), an effective biomedical strategy for preventing HIV acquisition, …

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Delivering PrEP to adults with “low” or “no” HIV risk and youth: experiences and perspectives of PrEP providers

Ronald A. Brooks, Omar Nieto, Alejandra Cabral, Amanda S. Landrian et autres

Health care providers have an important role to play in expanding PrEP uptake to populations disproportionately burdened by HIV. In this study, in-depth, semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 20 PrEP providers in Los Angeles, California to explore their experiences and perspectives …

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Qualitative Evaluation of Social Media and Mobile Technology Interventions Designed to Improve HIV Health Outcomes for Youth and Young Adults Living With HIV: A HRSA SPNS Initiative

Ronald A. Brooks, Omar Nieto, Dallas T. Swendeman, Janet J. Myers et autres

Youth and young adults living with HIV (YYALH) are less likely to be engaged in HIV care, adhere to their medications, and achieve viral suppression compared to older adult populations. In the United States, the majority of YYALH belong to racial/ethnic, sexual, …

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Barriers and motivators to pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake among Black and Latina transgender women in Los Angeles: perspectives of current PrEP users

Omar Nieto, Anne E. Fehrenbacher, Alejandra Cabral, Amanda S. Landrian et autres

The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify barriers and motivators to PrEP uptake from the perspective of Black and Latina transgender women (TW) who are currently using PrEP to suggest intervention and outreach activities to increase PrEP uptake in this …

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“We are becoming older women and then we have two stigmas”: voicing women’s biopsychosocial health issues as they age with HIV

Logan Z. Marg, Griselda Ruiz, Fidel Chagolla, Alejandra Cabral et autres

In April 2019, nine older women (age 50+) living with HIV in Palm Springs, California, participated in a 90-minute focus group to identify their major health issues, strengths, and HIV and aging-related health priorities. Using the rigorous and accelerated data reduction (RADaR) …

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Experiences of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Stigma, Social Support, and Information Dissemination Among Black and Latina Transgender Women Who Are Using Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis

Ronald A. Brooks, Alejandra Cabral, Omar Nieto, Anne E. Fehrenbacher et autres

Abstract Purpose: In the United States, HIV disproportionally affects Black and Latina transgender women (BLTW). Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a proven biomedical method for preventing HIV acquisition. However, the social stigma attached to using PrEP may deter uptake and persistence of PrEP …

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