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Crowdsourcing Ideas for the Implementation of Long-Acting Injectable PrEP among Sexual Minority Men in Chicago through an Innovation Tournament

Citation

Van Pelt AE, Casline E, Cook BGM, et al. Crowdsourcing Ideas for the Implementation of Long-Acting Injectable PrEP among Sexual Minority Men in Chicago through an Innovation Tournament. Implement Sci Commun. 2025;6(1):65. doi:10.1186/s43058-025-00750-9

Implementation stage:

Pre-Implementation

Implementation outcomes reported:

Acceptability, Appropriateness, Feasibility

Continuum target addressed:

PrEP initiation, PrEP persistence

Geography:

Cook County-IL

Study Participant Classification:

Recipients of care

Plain Language Objectives

The researchers wanted Chicago community members to help design ways to introduce long-acting injectable HIV-prevention medicine for sexual minority men. Participants proposed ideas, reviewed them, and helped identify approaches that seemed acceptable, practical, and useful.

Plain Language Abstract

Long-acting injectable cabotegravir offers a new HIV-prevention option, but programs need implementation approaches that fit the needs of sexual minority men in Chicago, especially Black and Latino communities. Researchers conducted a virtual innovation tournament in English and Spanish. Participants submitted ideas, commented on proposals, and a diverse committee rated them for acceptability, appropriateness, feasibility, and potential impact. Forty-two people submitted 54 entries containing 73 distinct ideas. Just over half were communication or dissemination ideas, while 42.5% focused on implementation. Suggestions included social-media and dating-app campaigns, LGBTQ ambassadors, subsidies and transportation vouchers, integration with sexually transmitted infection services and pharmacies, and partnerships with schools or pop-up community clinics. The three highest-rated ideas involved home visits, training providers who serve queer patients, and pharmacy administration. The process centered end-user ideas and produced strategies that can guide future planning in Chicago. However, the tournament did not implement the ideas or test whether they increase awareness, injection uptake, continued attendance, or HIV prevention outcomes.

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