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Mental Health Challenges: Dialogues on Optimizing Engagement in HIV Care
Manage episode 390613929 series 2884624
In this podcast episode, Mark Brennan-Ing, PhD, and Nina I. Martinez discuss mental health challenges in people living with HIV and much-needed strategies to overcome these challenges to optimize engagement in HIV care, including:
- The increased rates of mental health disorders and substance use among people living with HIV
- How mental health disorders contribute to challenges with adherence to HIV treatment and engagement in care
- How social isolation and stigma can affect outcomes despite access to HIV care and ART
- The importance of mental health screenings as part of HIV care
- Integrating mental health services into HIV care as a strategy to overcome mental health challenges being a barrier to care
Presenter:
Mark Brennan-Ing, PhD
Director of Research and Evaluation
Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging
Hunter College
The City University of New York
New York, New York
Nina I. Martinez
Public Health Consultant
Link to full program:
https://bit.ly/3TqVnl1
394 episodes
Manage episode 390613929 series 2884624
In this podcast episode, Mark Brennan-Ing, PhD, and Nina I. Martinez discuss mental health challenges in people living with HIV and much-needed strategies to overcome these challenges to optimize engagement in HIV care, including:
- The increased rates of mental health disorders and substance use among people living with HIV
- How mental health disorders contribute to challenges with adherence to HIV treatment and engagement in care
- How social isolation and stigma can affect outcomes despite access to HIV care and ART
- The importance of mental health screenings as part of HIV care
- Integrating mental health services into HIV care as a strategy to overcome mental health challenges being a barrier to care
Presenter:
Mark Brennan-Ing, PhD
Director of Research and Evaluation
Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging
Hunter College
The City University of New York
New York, New York
Nina I. Martinez
Public Health Consultant
Link to full program:
https://bit.ly/3TqVnl1
394 episodes
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