"Let me hear what you're needing": exploring how HIV providers conceptualize patient-provider interactions with people with HIV who use drugs using a harm reduction framework.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In addition to structural interventions such as syringe services and naloxone distribution, harm reduction (HR) is also a relational approach to care encompassing principles such as patient autonomy and pragmatism that can be implemented in healthcare teams to improve outcomes for people with HIV (PWH) who use drugs. Evidence suggests that using a relational HR framework to operationalize care for PWH who use drugs may improve the patient-provider relationship, thus positively impacting HIV outcomes. We previously found that negative attitudes toward people who use drugs are negatively associated with acceptance of HR; however, little is known about how HIV providers conceptualize the patient-provider relationship with PWH who use drugs.

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The aim

SUBMITTER: Creasy SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11866378 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature