Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse

HIV disproportionately impacts minoritized individuals, particularly those of intersectional minoritized identities. Incarceration disproportionately impacts minoritized individuals as well, and increases HIV risk, in part due to its disruption to people’s lives, social networks, and access to care. We developed MEPS, a 6-month intervention designed to holistically support HIV prevention in men who have sex with men and transgender women leaving incarceration. We tested MEPS in a 1:1 randomized controlled trial with 208 individuals. All participants received a needs assessment and personalized wellness plan, followed by either standard of care or the MEPS intervention. MEPS integrated support from a Peer Mentor, incentives for engagement in social and health services, and a mobile app. Participants completed baseline assessments and follow-up assessments at 3, 6, and 9 months. We tested for changes in PrEP use using a group-based trajectory model, for changes in HIV and STI testing, frequent substance use and recidivism using logistic mixed models, and for changes in HCV testing and in having a regular place for care using Poisson models. MEPS participants were significantly more likely than control participants to be among those who used PrEP [AOR (95% CI) = 3.8 (1.8, 8.0)]. Recent HIV testing in the MEPS arm remained above 50% over time while decreasing in the control arm, with a significant difference between arms at 6 months [AOR (95% CI) = 3.5 (1.3, 9.5)]. There were no significant differences between arms in the other outcomes. The MEPS intervention was effective in increasing PrEP uptake and HIV testing in people leaving incarceration. Interventions that implement peer mentor support and incentives to encourage service engagement can improve engagement in HIV prevention services among populations that experience unique barriers to care. This study was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov on July 25, 2019 (NCT04036396).Supplementary InformationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10461-025-04818-4.

Las clases medias trabajadores jugaron un papel decisivo en la reconstrucción de la base del Partido Socialista Francés entre los años 1967 y 1981. Sin embargo, sus triunfos electorales fueron seguidos de un debilitamiento de su base de poder desde 1981 hasta 1984. El mandato socialista inicial de Mitterrand en 1981 condujo a una sobrestimación de las aspiraciones de reorganización social. Los datos procedentes de encuestas de ámbito nacional en 1983 mostraban que el principal objetivo de la mayoría de ciudadanos era una mejora de las condiciones de vida cotidianas. El sistema que pueda conseguir este objetivo será el mejor. La mayoría de los trabajadores de las clases medias son conscientes de la importancia de los temas que afectan a los derechos humanos en democracia; sin embargo, no apoyan una redistribución radical de la pobreza.

La laca española, también denominada charol[i] es una técnica decorativa que, como el resto de las lacas europeas, trataba de emular a las orientales. Entre las obras que con mayor frecuencia se decoraban con charol se encontraban los muebles. En este artículo se expondrán algunas de las características del mueble de charol y sus conexiones, tanto con el mobiliario lacado de otros países europeos como con las lacas asiáticas. Con ello se pretende contribuir a la difusión del conocimiento de esta parcela artística española tan peculiar como escasamente transitada.
 
 
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 [i] En España esta acepción, junto a otros muchos apelativos, valía asimismo para designar las lacas de otros contextos geográficos.

The objective of the present work is to call the attention for the fact that Accounting is under crisis because of its principles and its incapacity to express the reality of society. Considering its principles, researches can discern the mistakes of the paradigms (positivism, normativism and criticism) that cannot outline a new equation which may determine new ways to the expression of the accounting language in a more coherent and human manner. Considering the expression of reality, Accounting has been subjugated to the economization of its concepts. And some actions have contributed for this, such as the subordination of the professional organizations, of the academies and of the journals to an “anglocentric” establishment, whose consequences have led to an exhaustion of the accounting research, besides the stigma of the existence of the accounting “non-intellectuals”. Accounting has lost its scientific autonomy for the market game (founded on the logics of the economic value) that disguised and colonized its language. If the paradigms established along the 20th century could not structure an adequate accounting language, so it is necessary to reveal them in their roots. The future shows us a possibility to recover the authenticity of its principles and concepts.