Universal basic income and structural racism in the US South: Differences in HIV care utilization between low-income African American men living with HIV

项目总结/摘要 全民基本收入（UBI）是一项有前途的战略，旨在重新调整经济体系， 基于结构性种族主义黑人长期以来一直是压迫和相互关联的系统的目标 金融和医疗保健的获取，导致接触传染病的负担不成比例， 很少的医疗支持。然而，据我们所知，还没有发表的UBI研究被实施过。 专门针对美国感染艾滋病毒的黑人男性。受创新的健康和社会 科学是在世界其他地区资源极其有限的环境中进行的，我们认识到， 迫切需要更好地了解现金转移对美国黑人男性艾滋病护理的影响 南这项拟议中的研究将以阿肯色州为基地，与其他南方州一样，阿肯色州有着悠久的历史， 制度性种族主义和极高的种族健康差距、贫困和慢性病比率。我们将 使用混合方法研究设计，对UBI干预进行深入探索，以减少 消除种族工资差距，促进使用与文化相关的保护因素。提供UBI是 旨在通过流入增加黑人男子接受和保留艾滋病毒护理服务和治疗的机会， 资本和随后增加的文化为基础的保护因素，如个人机构和社会 连接.我们假设提供每月500美元的UBI，持续6个月， 低收入黑人男性艾滋病毒感染者的护理利用率。其次，我们假设， 全民基本收入还将增加对艾滋病毒药物的坚持，使更多的全民基本收入接受者将实现和维持 与对照条件下的个体相比病毒抑制。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a promising strategy aimed at recalibrating economic systems that are grounded in structural racism. Black men have long been the target of oppressive and interconnected systems of finance and healthcare access, leading to a disproportionate burden of exposure to infectious disease with little healthcare support. Yet to our knowledge, no published UBI studies have ever been implemented exclusively with Black men living with HIV in the US. Motivated and inspired by the innovative health and social science being conducted in extremely resource-limited environments in other parts of the world, we recognize an urgent need to better understand the effect of cash transfers on HIV care among Black men in the US South. The proposed study will be based in Arkansas, which, like other Southern states, has a long history of institutional racism and extremely high rates of racial health disparities, poverty, and chronic disease. We will use a mixed methods research design to conduct an in-depth exploration of a UBI intervention to reduce the racial wage gap and promote the use of culturally relevant protective factors. The provision of a UBI is intended to increase receipt and retention of HIV care services and treatment for Black men through the influx of capital and subsequent increases in culturally-based protective factors such as personal agency and social connections. We hypothesize that providing UBI of $500 per month for 6 months will result in increased HIV care utilization among low-income Black men living with HIV. Secondarily, we hypothesize that the effect of UBI will also increase adherence to HIV medication, such that more UBI recipients will achieve and maintain viral suppression compared to individuals in the control condition.