Using the Implementation Research Logic Model as a Lens to View Experiences of Implementing HIV Prevention and Care Interventions with Adolescent Sexual Minority Men-A Global Perspective

Authors

LaRon E. Nelson, School of Nursing, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. laron.nelson@yale.edu.
Adedotun Ogunbajo, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Gamji Rabiu Abu-Ba'are, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Donaldson F. Conserve, Department of Prevention and Community Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
Leo Wilton, Department of Human Development, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, USA.
Jackson Junior Ndenkeh, Center for International Health, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
Paula Braitstein, Epidemiology Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Dorothy Dow, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Renata Arrington-Sanders, Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Patrick Appiah, Youth Alliance for Health & Human Rights, Ashanti, Kumasi, Ghana.
Joe Tucker, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Soohyun Nam, School of Nursing, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Robert Garafolo, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

8-10-2022

Journal

AIDS and behavior

DOI

10.1007/s10461-022-03776-5

Keywords

Adolescents; Global health; HIV; Implementation science; Sexual minority men

Abstract

Adolescents and sexual minority men (SMM) are high priority groups in the United Nations' 2021 - 2016 goals for HIV prevention and viral load suppression. Interventions aimed at optimizing HIV prevention, testing and viral load suppression for adolescents must also attend to the intersectional realities influencing key sub-populations of SMM. Consequently, there is not a robust evidence-base to guide researchers and program partners on optimal approaches to implementing interventions with adolescent SMM. Using a multiple case study design, we integrated the Implementation Research Logic Model with components of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research and applied it as a framework for a comparative description of ten HIV related interventions implemented across five countries (Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and United States). Using self-reported qualitative survey data of project principal investigators, we identified 17 of the most influential implementation determinants as well as a range of 17 strategies that were used in 90 instances to support intervention implementation. We highlight lessons learned in the implementation research process and provide recommendations for researchers considering future HIV implementation science studies with adolescent SMM.

APA Citation

Nelson, LaRon E.; Ogunbajo, Adedotun; Abu-Ba'are, Gamji Rabiu; Conserve, Donaldson F.; Wilton, Leo; Ndenkeh, Jackson Junior; Braitstein, Paula; Dow, Dorothy; Arrington-Sanders, Renata; Appiah, Patrick; Tucker, Joe; Nam, Soohyun; and Garafolo, Robert, "Using the Implementation Research Logic Model as a Lens to View Experiences of Implementing HIV Prevention and Care Interventions with Adolescent Sexual Minority Men-A Global Perspective" (2022). GW Authored Works. Paper 1495.
https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/gwhpubs/1495

Department

Prevention and Community Health