Human Mobility and HIV Program
Overview
Mobility can disrupt health care, endanger the health of individuals living with illness, and thwart efforts to contain and treat infectious diseases such as HIV. People who are mobile move between locations temporarily, seasonally, or permanently for a range of voluntary and/or involuntary reasons. This includes, for example, people who are mobile due to economic opportunity, seasonal work, poverty, homelessness, human trafficking, and those displaced by natural disasters. Levels of mobility are currently high and anticipated to increase. As such, there is a need for research that examines the impact of human mobility on HIV prevention and treatment outcomes.
The purpose of this program is to support research that: 1) advances understanding of how human mobility affects engagement with the HIV prevention and care continuum and 2) identifies strategies to address these challenges. Research among mobile is populations is encouraged to develop, test, and implement interventions to improve HIV outcomes, and utilize socioecological process models to identify the impacts of lifespan, structural, and individual-level factors on HIV outcomes. All research should be conducted with stakeholder input and the challenges associated with studying HIV among mobile populations.
Research Objectives
- Support epidemiological studies of HIV among mobile populations.
- Identify HIV prevention strategies for key mobile populations.
- Develop novel approaches to engaging mobile people living with HIV in the HIV care continuum.
- Determine the effects of mobility linked to natural disasters on HIV outcomes, both at the individual and population levels.
- Examine mobility-linked social and structural determinants of health that affect HIV and mental health outcomes.
Contact
Anaïs Stenson
Program Officer
Human Mobility and HIV Program
HIV Data Science, Developmental, Social, and Translational Research Branch
Division of AIDS Research, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
stensonaf@nih.gov
(240) 926-7572