Importance of rigorous implementation science studies to scale-up evidence-based interventions to end the HIV epidemic in the United States.
Importance of rigorous implementation science studies to scale-up evidence-based interventions to end the HIV epidemic in the United States.
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10.1097/qad.0000000000002696
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2021-02-02
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Evens E
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Joseph Davey DL;de Villiers L;Evens E
‘Ending the HIV Epidemic’is a bold plan that aims to curb the spread of HIV in the United States by 2030 by focusing on advancing the science of HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment and outbreak response in 57 HIV high-burden areas [1, 2]. The integration of evidencebased interventions and science into routine practice in these communities will require focused efforts. Implementation science is used to facilitate the spread of evidence-based interventions [3] and can be defined as ‘the scientific study of methods to promote the systematic uptake of research findings and other evidence-based practices into routine practice, and, hence, to improve the quality and effectiveness of health services [4]’. Implementation science is key to understanding not only which interventions to deploy, but also how to deploy them.Shangani [5] conducted the first systematic review of the early adoption of implementation science for HIV prevention and treatment studies in the United States. Despite over a decade of investment in implementation science research by the US National Institute of Health (NIH)[4], only identified 39 studies were identified–none of which used formal theoretical frameworks. Frameworks are necessary to document and explain how and why implementation of interventions succeeds or fails; this documentation enhances the generalizability and replicability of research and is essential to maximizing the collaborative impact of investments in HIV research [6].