Reports from University of Chicago Medicine Advance Knowledge in HIV/AIDS (A Community Located Insurance Navigation Intervention to Link Sexual and Gender Minorities in Status Neutral Care: Results From the Navigating Insurance Coverage …): Immune System Diseases and Conditions – HIV/AIDS

2026 JUN 22 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Current study results on Immune System Diseases and Conditions - HIV/AIDS have been published. According to news reporting out of Chicago, Illinois, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Black and Hispanic/Latino sexual gender minorities are disproportionately affected by HIV. Structural determinants of health, such as health insurance coverage, drive care engagement and improve HIV care outcomes.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Chicago Medicine, “Black and Hispanic/Latino sexual gender minorities and transgender persons 18 years of age, living in Chicago, IL, were enrolled and randomized to receive health insurance navigation (intervention) or standard of care. Primary and secondary outcomes were analyzed using 2-way contingency analyses to compare linkage-to-care rates by HIV status (HIV positive and HIV negative) and under a status-neutral framework, based on intervention assignment. We enrolled 625 participants: 278 (44%) in the intervention arm and 347 (56%) in the control arm, with no substantial sociodemographic differences between study conditions. Overall, 29.7% were persons living with HIV, 14.1% identified as transgender, and 68.5% were insured. Among persons living with HIV in both study arms, 66.1% were linked to HIV care. Among participants living without HIV, in both study arms, 23.9% were linked to pre-exposure prophylaxis. Across study arms and HIV status, approximately one-third of participants (35.2%) were linked to care. We found the provision of health insurance navigation before a care visit did not significantly improve linkage to care, even among participants not insured at study enrollment.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “This could partially be explained by the high prevalence of insurance at baseline.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: A Community Located Insurance Navigation Intervention to Link Sexual and Gender Minorities in Status Neutral Care: Results From the Navigating Insurance Coverage Expansion Randomized Controlled Trial. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2026;101(7):709-716. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins - www.lww.com; JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes - http://journals.lww.com/jaids/pages/default.aspx)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Rebecca Eavou, Chicago Center for HIV Elimination, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL. Additional authors for this research include Victoria Umutoni, Ellen Almirol, Mary S. Neumann, Juan Rivera and John A. Schneider.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1097/qai.0000000000003788. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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