Abstract Purpose of Review This article reviews the case for recognizing (1) the epidemics of
opioid misuse, overdose, hepatitis C virus, and HIV as a syndemic and (2) the importance of …

How does economic inequality relate to prosocial behaviour? Existing theories and
empirical studies from multiple disciplines have produced mixed results. Here we conduct a …

Abstract In the United States, research is limited on the mechanisms that link socioeconomic
and structural factors to HIV diagnosis outcomes. We tested whether neighborhood income …

Purpose Social capital is a well-established predictor of several behavioral health outcomes.
However, we know less about the relationship with prevention, transmission, and treatment …

Geographic inequalities in COVID-19 diagnosis are now well documented. However, we do
not sufficiently know whether inequalities are related to social characteristics of …

Background: Uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among black individuals in the
United States is low and may be associated with the limited availability of clinics where PrEP …

Social capital, the sum of an individual's resource-containing social network connections,
has been proposed as a facilitator of successful HIV care engagement. We explored …

Efforts to reduce HIV among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men include
increasing awareness and uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Social capital may …

High neighborhood social capital could facilitate earlier diagnosis of HIV and higher rates of
linkage and HIV care engagement. Multivariate analysis was used to examine whether …

Background: Limited empirical evidence exists about the extent to which the current HIV
epidemic intersects with COVID-19 infections at the area/geographic level. Moreover, little is …