Social, Structural and Behavioral Interventions for HIV Prevention

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Dear Colleagues,

Evidence-based and -informed social, structural, and behavioral interventions have great potential to further reduce HIV transmission and synergistically improve the acceptability, adoption, persistence, feasibility, appropriateness, penetration, and fidelity of social, behavioral, and biomedical interventions including PrEP, PEP, and Treatment as Prevention (TasP). Biobehavioral interventions that combine social and medical prevention approaches have a critical role in ending the HIV epidemic. The scaling up of these tools has not produced sufficient declines in HIV incidence to reach global prevention targets, in part due to social, behavioral, implementation, and structural barriers that prevent available services from reaching populations who could benefit from them. More work is needed to improve health equity and to ensure that these tools effectively reach the key populations most impacted by HIV, including gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM); people of transgender experience; people involved in the sex trade; people who inject drugs; and people living with HIV. Racism, sexism, transphobia, lack of economic opportunities, and other social injustices continue to present barriers to ending the HIV epidemic. Papers addressing these topics, from a range of country and regional contexts globally, are invited for this Topic and may include quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods original research on intervention development, adaptation, implementation, evaluation, and/or outcomes.

Prof. Dr. Greg Rebchook
Prof. Dr. Susan Kegeles
Dr. Sophia Zamudio-Haas
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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ijerph	-	7.3	2004	24.3 Days	CHF 2500	Submit
Behavioral Sciences behavsci	2.5	2.6	2011	27 Days	CHF 2200	Submit
Sexes sexes	1.2	-	2020	25.1 Days	CHF 1000	Submit
Social Sciences socsci	1.7	2.6	2012	28.9 Days	CHF 1800	Submit
Psychology International psycholint	-	-	2019	20.9 Days	CHF 1200	Submit

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