Introduction
HIV infections, viral suppression
HIV INFECTIONS
While progress has been made in the past decade in reducing the number of new HIV infections among young people (aged 15–24 years), this age group still accounted for two out of every seven new HIV infections in 2019 [Despite increasing recognition of the need to focus on the HIV epidemic among young people to reach global HIV targets [The Project YES! RCT found that the relative odds of experiencing feelings of internalized stigma—measured via three items: 1) you feel guilty that you are HIV positive; 2) you feel ashamed that you are HIV positive; and 3) you sometimes feel worthless because you are HIV positive—were significantly lower among Project YES! intervention versus comparison group participants (OR: 0.39, 95% CI: 0.21–0.73). Moreover, a sub-group of Project YES! participants in the pediatric setting had a relative increase of 4.7 in the odds of viral suppression (95% CI: 1.84–11.78) compared to comparison group participants [