The objective of this study was to identify barriers and facilitators related to reimbursement processes, contraceptive device acquisition costs, stocking, and supply of long-acting reversible contraception from 27 jurisdictions (26 states/1 territory) participating in the Increasing Access to Contraception Learning Community from 2016 to 2018.
Black college women enrolled in predominantly White institutions may be particularly exposed to stressors related to gendered racism, but there is limited knowledge about this population's coping strategies. This study utilized a cross-sectional survey and focus group to understand and disrupt participants' experiences of gendered racism.
This study aimed to estimate the number of women who received human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and sexually transmitted infection testing and HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) services by race and ethnicity in seven THRIVE (Targeted Highly Effective Interventions to Reverse the HIV Epidemic)–funded jurisdictions (Birmingham, Alabama; Baltimore City, Maryland; Washington, DC, New Orleans, Louisiana; Brooklyn, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Hampton Roads, Virginia).
This study systematically examined the contributions of COVID-19 and other underlying causes of death to the widened gender life expectancy gap from 2010 to 2021 using mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics.
This study evaluated how the Affordable Care Act Medicaid eligibility expansion affected perinatal insurance coverage patterns for Medicaid-enrolled beneficiaries who gave birth overall and by race/ethnicity.
Elevated maternal HIV viral load (VL) increases vertical transmission risk of HIV for breastfeeding children. This randomized controlled trial in Johannesburg primarily evaluated whether 3-monthly point-of-care testing, with laboratory-based standard-of-care testing (arm 2), compared with 6-monthly laboratory-based VL testing (arm 1) in postpartum women living with HIV receiving first-line tenofovir-emtricitabine-efavirenz antiretroviral treatment improved VL suppression, factors associated with nonsuppression, and drug resistance in those with virologic failure.
A study was conducted to examine treatment patterns and outcomes among women with a primary ovarian cancer diagnosis in the Midwest region of the United States, an area that has relatively fewer gynecologic oncologists (GOs) and diverse geography with respect to urban and rural areas. This paper examined the methodology of working with central cancer registries to collect additional data items, including those related to GO involvement and detailed treatment.
This descriptive study synthesized qualitative data extracted from the fifteen states participating in the Opioid Use Disorder, Maternal Outcomes, and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Initiative Learning Community (OMNI LC) actions plans to address clinical service gaps for pregnant and postpartum people with opioid use disorder.
Data years 2016/2017 were pooled from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, a random-digit-dial telephone survey of U.S. non-institutionalized adults 18 years and older, to present more recent estimates of rape and sexual coercion-related pregnancy and examined prevalence by demographic characteristics.
This study assessed the contribution of vaccine-related attitudes to coverage disparities. Using electronic health record data to identify pregnant women, random samples were selected for surveying and regression-based decomposition analyses were used to assess the contribution of vaccine-related attitudes to racial and ethnic differences in influenza vaccination.
To evaluate missed prevention opportunities and whether they differed during the prepandemic era (2015–2019) compared with the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2022), the Chicago Department of Public Health conducted a comprehensive review of all congenital syphilis cases reported during 2015–2022.
