Policies enacted during COVID-19 came with unintended health benefits: why go back?

Objectives To explore the impact of COVID-19 on the implementation of bundled interventions to improve the engagement and retention of Black women in HIV care. Methods Pre-implementation interviews conducted between January and April 202 L with 12 demonstration sites implementing bundled interventions for Black women with HIV. Directed content analysis was employed to examine the site interview transcripts. Results The pandemic intensified barriers to care and harmful social conditions. However, COVID-19 also forced pivots in health care and social service delivery and some of these changes benefited Black women living with HIV. Conclusions The continuation of policies that support the material needs of Black women with HIV and ease access to care is critical. Racial capitalism impedes the enactment of these policies and thus threatens public health.

• Publication year

  2023

• Venue

  BMC Health Services Research

• Publication date

  2023-05-16

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1186/s12913-023-09448-xPMID 37194099PMCID 10186280
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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