Strengthening Community Responses to Economic vulnerability (SeCuRE): a protocol of an HIV status-neutral pilot randomized clinical trial with transgender women of color in Detroit, Michigan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the United States (US), transgender women of color experience cyclical, interlocking systems of structural and institutional oppression rooted in racism and transphobia, which fuel economic vulnerability. Together, cycles of intersecting racism, transphobia, and economic vulnerability create conditions that give rise to extreme HIV inequities among transgender women of color. Microeconomic interventions - designed to improve financial standing by increasing income generation and access to financial resources through entrepreneurship, cash transfers, and training - have the potential to address structural factors underlying HIV inequities. Over the past few years, several trans-led organizations, including the Trans Sistas of Color Project, have integrated microeconomi

SUBMITTER: Gamarel K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11545932 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature