R. Cameron Wolf

• PhD
• Senior Advisor at Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

Background Voter initiatives in Oregon and Colorado authorize legal frameworks for supervised psilocybin services, but no measures monitor safety or outcomes. Aims To develop core measures of best practices. Methods A three-phase e-Delphi process recruited 36 experts with 5 or more years’ experience facilitating psilocybin experiences in various...

Introduction: Globally, over half of the estimated new HIV infections now occur among key populations, including men who have sex with men, sex workers, people who inject drugs, transgender individuals, and people in prisons and other closed settings, and their sexual partners. Reaching epidemic control will, for many countries, increasingly requi...

Proactively preparing for the approval of psychedelic-assisted therapies (PATs) for clinical use allows the VA to stay on the leading edge of health care and creates opportunities to optimize delivery of emerging treatment modalities. Thus, the VA convened the “State of the Art (SOTA) Conference: Psychedelic Treatments for Mental Health Conditions”...

Experiences of gender-based violence (GBV) are associated with increased vulnerability to HIV and difficulty accessing HIV services; at the same time, people living with HIV are at an increased risk of GBV. Key populations most affected by HIV – gay and other men who have sex with men, female sex workers and transgender women – also experience a di...

Finding new HIV-positive cases remains a priority to achieve the UNAIDS goals. An enhanced peer outreach approach (EPOA) was implemented to expand the delivery of HIV services to female sex workers (FSWs) and men who have sex with men (MSM) in three countries in West and Central Africa. The aim of EPOA is to identify new HIV-positive cases. EPOA wa...

Special Supplement of the Journal of the International AIDS Society dedicated to Key Populations - full issue with all articles

New JIAS special supplement on key populations released for the 2018 International AIDS Conference.

Introduction The Global Fund and the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) are major donors to HIV services with key populations (KPs) to achieve the UNAIDS 95‐95‐95 epidemic control goals. The programmes they fund are not always well aligned or coordinated, decreasing their effectiveness. Joint assessments are designed and led by...

Engaging key populations, including gender and sexual minorities, is essential to meeting global targets for reducing new HIV infections and improving the HIV continuum of care. Negative attitudes toward gender and sexual minorities serve as a barrier to political will and effective programming for HIV health services. The President’s Emergency Pla...

Transgender (trans) activists and global health partners have collaborated to develop new tools and guidance for assessing and addressing HIV and other health needs within trans populations. Trans women experience a heavy burden of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), high incidence of violence and difficulties accessing gender-aff...

This tool contains practical advice on implementing HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) programmes with transgender people. It is based on recommendations in the Consolidated guidelines on HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for key populations, published in 2014 by the World Health Organization. Topics covered include communit...

Men who have sex with men are disproportionately affected by HIV with a 19.3 fold greater odds of being infected with HIV compared with the general population. This tool provides practical advice on programme implementation on community empowerment, addressing violence, condom and lubricant programming, health care service delivery, using informati...

Despite decades of HIV responses in pockets of West and Central Africa (WCA), the HIV response with key populations remains an understudied area. Recently, there has been a proliferation of studies highlighting epidemiologic and behavioral data that challenge attitudes of complacency among donors and country governments uncomfortable in addressing...

“This publication fills the gap between traditional theory driven research and practical HIV prevention and care achieved by highly qualified and committed community-based and led implementers. During my masters studies in Public Health these articles, some previously published in Digital Culture & Education (DCE), proved to be an important supplem...

Factors which are Associated with Consistent Condom Use and HIV Testing and Counselling among Men who Have Sex with Men in Yunnan and Guangxi

This Special Issue of Digital Culture & Education (DCE) provides innovative programmatic approaches to HIV prevention and care services for gay men, other men that have sex with men (MSM) and transgender persons using information and communication technology (ICT) at a time when these same populations are experiencing an alarming upward trend of ne...

Globally, overall rates of HIV are on the decline; however, rates among gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender persons are increasing. Meanwhile, there has been exponential growth in access to communication technology over the last decade. More innovative prevention and care technology-based programmes are needed to help...

Abstract While still an understudied area, there is a growing body of studies highlighting epidemiologic data on men who have sex with men (MSM) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) which challenge the attitudes of complacency and irrelevancy among donors and country governments that are uncomfortable in addressing key populations (KPs). While some of the p...

While still an understudied area, there is a growing body of studies highlighting epidemiologic data on men who have sex with men (MSM) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) which challenge the attitudes of complacency and irrelevancy among donors and country governments that are uncomfortable in addressing key populations (KPs). While some of the past inact...

This external evaluation was commissioned by the Global Fund and administered through Mahidol University Institute for Population and Social Research. The Global Fund (GF) commissioned a series of external program evaluations to assess whether the programs supported by the GF in Thailand achieved the desired outcomes and impacts in an efficient and...

Stigmatization and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA), and their families, remains a barrier to participation in prevention and care programmes. This barrier takes on added significance as Thailand expands provision of free antiretroviral therapy (ART). This paper documents an innovative approach to improve quality of life fo...

This chapter reviews Cambodia's response to its HIV epidemic. Donors need to have both short-term and long-term objectives and an appropriate health sector development vision. While some positive and urgently needed services have been provided to PLHIV in Cambodia, integrated strategies are vital in order to address the immediate needs for HIV prev...

HIV/AIDS treatment programs are currently being mounted in many developing nations that include palliative care services. While measures of palliative care have been developed and validated for resource rich settings, very little work exists to support an understanding of measurement for Africa, Latin America or Asia. This study investigates the co...

National program managers need data from different geographical areas within the country to plan for and monitor improvements in service coverage and capacity for care and treatment of patients with HIV/AIDS. They need to ensure equitable access to services by those in need.

Who most influences youth's AIDS-protective behaviors: peers, adults, or a combination of both? This paper explores interpersonal communication about reproductive health information among Ghanaian youth, and the association of this communication with different types of reported AIDS-preventive behaviors. Contacts of peer educators in Ghana were sur...

DHHA / Ryan White Care Act - sponsored assessment of Caribbean Migration on HIV/AIDS Care including Consumer and Provider Focus Groups and Interviews

This analysis explores the similarity between peer educators and their contacts. To examine interpersonal communication in the context of peer education, this study tested a new approach using multiple semi-structured interviews and network analysis to collect data from 106 peer educators and 526 of their contacts. These evaluation activities were...

This article reports a content analysis of 56 English-language public service announcements (PSAs) for HIV/AIDS prevention produced since 1987 by the U.S. federal government for television broadcast. These PSAs do not lead target audiences through a logical sequence from awareness to motivation, skill building, and maintenance. The PSAs underutiliz...

This article summarizes the observations and lessons learned regarding the application of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) prevention and reproductive health evaluation methodologies in the context of adolescent and young adult populations and discusses the use of peer network evaluation to understand th...

To examine whether sexual orientation is an independent risk factor for reported suicide attempts. Data were from the Massachusetts 1995 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which included a question on sexual orientation. Ten drug use, 5 sexual behavior, and 5 violence/ victimization variables chosen a priori were...

This study is one of the first to examine the association between sexual orientation and health risk behaviors among a representative, school-based sample of adolescents. This study was conducted on an anonymous, representative sample of 4159 9th- to 12th-grade students in public high schools from Massachusetts' expanded Centers for Disease Control...

This article is a report on different methods of estimation of the number of injection drug users (IDUs) in the Boston standard metropolitan statistical area (SMSA) in 1993. Because the sharing of needles is a means of transmission for HIV, an estimate of the prevalence of injection drug use is essential for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS...