Pre-Implementation Activities to Ensure Equity on the HIV Care Continuum

Formative evaluation and pre-implementation activities offer an opportunity to elicit key information about inequitable health experiences and outcomes that you might not get unless you ask direct questions. Presenters demonstrate how implementation research and health equity research complement each other theoretically; in addition, they provide examples of applying a health equity lens in implementation research to deliver LGBTQ+ affirming care and promote viral suppression through community health worker engagement.