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Yale Nursing's Nelson Leads $7 Million Pilot Study on Ending Racial Inequities in HIV

Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Professor Dr. LaRon Nelson, PhD, RN, FNP, FNAP, FNYAM, FAAN is leading a $7 million study funded by the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases at NIH to address disparities in HIV among Black men who have sex with men (MSM) by studying the effects of a multi-level intervention aiming to address intersecting social and structural barriers that impede population-level reductions in the rates of new HIV infections. The pilot study launched this summer, in the same year that marks four decades since AIDS was first discovered.

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Published: Friday, October 15, 2021