Preventing HIV/STI in Urban Adolescents via an mHealth Primary Care Intervention Public Health Relevance: This proposed research is highly relevant to public health. By increasing HIV/STI testing, and preventing/reducing two prominent HIV/STI risk behaviors in at-risk youth?condomless sex and drug use? this program of research is a high priority area as defined by the NOT-OD-15-137 NIH HIV/AIDS Research Priorities and has the potential to (1) prevent/reduce new HIV infections and (2) reduce HIV-related health disparities, which represent two of the four priorities identified in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States report.
| Cordova, David; Alers-Rojas, Francheska; Lua, Frania Mendoza et al. (2018) The Usability and Acceptability of an Adolescent mHealth HIV/STI and Drug Abuse Preventive Intervention in Primary Care. Behav Med 44:36-47 |
| Córdova, David; Lua, Frania Mendoza; Ovadje, Lauretta et al. (2018) Adolescent Experiences of Clinician-Patient HIV/STI Communication in Primary Care. Health Commun 33:1177-1183 |
| Córdova, David; Heinze, Justin E; Hsieh, Hsing-Fang et al. (2018) Are trajectories of a syndemic index in adolescence linked to HIV vulnerability in emerging and young adulthood? AIDS 32:495-503 |
