Jessica Jaiswal

Biographic Data

ID4459532
NAMEJessica Jaiswal
GIVEN NAMESJessica
FAMILY NAMEJaiswal
SIGNATUREJAISWAL J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Alabama
ORCID0000-0002-4880-0205
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS32
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • “Once You’re Labeled a Drug User, You Might as Well Stay the F*** Home”

    Caitlin Trombley, Omar El‐Shahawy et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2026

    BACKGROUND: Despite the growing relevance of rural areas in the overdose crisis, research on rural people who inject drugs and their experiences with law enforcement remains limited. This research examines how rural policing and stigma uniquely shape the lives of people who inject drugs. METHODS: Forty-one semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with people who inject drugs in southern Illinois. For this analysis, we focused on part…

  • HIV-Stigmatizing Beliefs and Attitudes as a Barrier to Early PrEP Care Continuum Engagement Among People Who Inject Drugs

    Open AccessSuzan M Walter, Suzan M Walters et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2026

    HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a highly effective prevention strategy, yet awareness, knowledge, and willingness to use it among people who inject drugs (PWID) remains inadequate despite widespread eligibility. Stigma, particularly HIV-stigmatizing beliefs and attitudes, may be a key barrier to engagement at early stages of the PrEP care continuum. We examine how HIV-stigmatizing beliefs and attitudes affect PrEP awareness, knowledge, and…

  • Manifestations and Lived Experiences of Structural Racism for Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities Affected by HIV Across the United States

    Open AccessBetelhem A Muno, Mariam Haris et al.ARTICLEHealth Equity2025

    Objective: To elucidate some of the manifestations of structural racism as a root cause of racialized inequities in HIV in the context of COVID-19, centered through the lens of community members with lived experiences. Methods: We partnered with eight community-based organizations to conduct focus group discussions structured around COVID-19 and HIV-related experiences. We utilized inductive coding and thematic analysis. Results: We conducted 10 …

  • PrEP-Related Medical, Structural and Institutional Mistrust among a Socioeconomically Diverse Sample of Black, Latine, Asian, and White Young Sexual Minority Men

    Open AccessJessica Jaiswal, Marybec Griffin et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2025

    Mistrust among marginalized populations has been shown to negatively impact health behaviors and outcomes. Young sexual minority men (YSMM) experience many health inequities, including those related to HIV. Understanding how YSMM think about and experience medical, structural, and institutional mistrust is critical to effectively promoting engagement in preventive services like pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The study recruited 43 YSMM (ages 25…

  • Engaging Adults in Sexual Health Messages

    Open AccessMia Ann Xu, Marybec Griffin et al.ARTICLESexuality Research and Social…2024References: 2

  • Challenges to Providing Integrated HIV Prevention in Substance Use Treatment Settings

    Jessica Jaiswal, Marybec Griffin et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2023

    INTRODUCTION: Substance use treatment settings can play a critical role in ending the HIV epidemic. Community-based methadone clinics are potentially useful sites to offer biomedical HIV prevention, but little is known about how clinicians and other clinic staff communicate with patients about sexual behavior and HIV-related topics. METHODS: Thirty semi-structured interviews were conducted at two methadone clinics in Northern New Jersey. Particip…

  • An Examination of Condom Brand’s Social Media Influence on Sexual Health Messages

    Mia Ann Xu, Marybec Griffin et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2023

    Social media is a primary source of sexual health information for young adults. Increased exposure to sexual health education on social media is associated with safer sexual behavior. Given the diversity of social media accounts, condom brands may be a trusted source of sexual health information. We quantified user interactions on the social media posts of the three most frequently used social media sites of condom brands from January 2020 to Jun…

  • I Don’t Believe a Person Has to Die When Trying to Get High

    Open AccessSuzan M Walter, Marisa Felsher et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    People who inject drugs understood fentanyl to be a potential contaminant in their drug supply and actively engaged in harm reduction techniques to try to prevent overdose. Interventions to increase harm reduction education and information about and access to fentanyl test strips and naloxone would be beneficial

  • Why aren’t you on PrEP? You’re a gay man’

    Kevin Hascher, Jessica Jaiswal et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2023

    Public health models and medical interventions have often failed to consider the impact of reductionist HIV 'risk' discourse on how sexual minority men interpret, enact and embody biomedical knowledge in the context of sexual encounters. The aim of this study was to use an anthropological lens to examine sexual minority men's perception of HIV risk and experience within the medical system in order to examine the influence of risk discourse on the…

  • How the rural risk environment underpins hepatitis C risk

    Open AccessSuzan M Walter, David Frank et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2023

    The rural risk environment framework acknowledges the importance of community and structural factors that influence HCV infection and other disease transmission and care. We find that larger structural factors produce vulnerabilities and reduce access to resources, which negatively impact hepatitis C disease outcomes

  • Depression Severity among a Sample of LGBTQ+ Individuals during the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessMarybec Griffin, Jessica Jaiswal et al.ARTICLESocieties2023References: 7

    Background: The global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to immense impacts on global community health, the public perception of healthcare, and attitudes surrounding mental health during widespread quarantine. Methods: This analysis examines the rates of depressive symptomology among a sample of LGBTQ+-identifying individuals in the United States (n = 1090). The variables examined included socio-demographic factors, the use…

  • Sex in the Time of Covid-19

    Open AccessMarybec Griffin, Jessica Jaiswal et al.ARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2022Cited by: 3References: 37

  • Gendered racial microaggressions and black college women

    Wanda Martin Burton, Angelia M Paschal et al.ARTICLEJournal of American College Health2022Cited by: 3References: 23

    Objective: We assessed the association between gendered racism, the simultaneous experience of sexism and racism, depression, and psychological distress in Black college women using an intersectional instrument, the gendered racial microaggression scale. Participants: Black college women enrolled at a predominantly white institution (PWI) in the southeastern U.S. (N = 164, response rate = 77%, mean age 21.67). Methods: We used a cross-sectional s…

  • Stigma Surrounding the Use of Medically Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

    Tricia H Witte, Jessica Jaiswal et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2021

    Purpose This study sought to determine whether certain factors influenced public stigma toward the use of medication to treat opioid use disorders (MOUD). Method: In a series of 3 studies using between-subjects designs, hypothetical MOUD patients matched in age and educational status with the participants were varied in systematic ways to determine whether certain factors influenced stigmatizing views of the patients. Results: Study 1 (n = 142) d…

  • Correlates of PrEP Uptake Among Young Sexual Minority Men and Transgender Women in New York City

    Open AccessJessica Jaiswal, Caleb LoSchiavo et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2021

  • PrEP Care Continuum Engagement Among Persons Who Inject Drugs

    Open AccessSuzan M Walter, David Frank et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2021

    Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a medication that prevents HIV acquisition, yet PrEP uptake has been low among people who inject drugs. Stigma has been identified as a fundamental driver of population health and may be a significant barrier to PrEP care engagement among PWID. However, there has been limited research on how stigma operates in rural and urban settings in relation to PrEP. Using in-depth semi-structured qualitative interviews (n …

  • Satisfaction and experiences with healthcare among urban-dwelling young adult lesbian women in New York City

    Marybec Griffin, Jessica Jaiswal et al.ARTICLEJournal of Gay & Lesbian Social…2021References: 6

    Young adult lesbian women (YALW) face unique barriers to healthcare access as providers do not perceive a need for sexual and reproductive healthcare services for this population. A brief survey was conducted with 100 YALW to explore healthcare experiences including: usual source of healthcare, coordination of healthcare, and satisfaction with the healthcare services provided by their primary care provider (PCP). Data collection took place betwee…

  • Assessing Perceptions of Broad Consent Concerning Biological Specimen Collection in a Cohort of Young Sexual Minority Men

    Open AccessSusan Hawkes Cook, Erica P Wood et al.ARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2021References: 19

  • Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Rates by Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Among 18–44-Year-Olds in the U.S

    Open AccessMarybec Griffin, Jessica Jaiswal et al.ARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2021Cited by: 1References: 60

  • Misinformation, Gendered Perceptions, and Low Healthcare Provider Communication Around HPV and the HPV Vaccine Among Young Sexual Minority Men in New York City

    Open AccessJessica Jaiswal, Caleb LoSchiavo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Health2020

  • Disinformation, Misinformation and Inequality-Driven Mistrust in the Time of Covid-19

    Open AccessJessica Jaiswal, Caleb LoSchiavo et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2020

  • Are Sexual Minority Stressors Associated with Young Men who Have Sex with Men’s (YMSM) Level of Engagement in PrEP

    Steven Meanley, Cristian Chandler et al.ARTICLEBehavioral Medicine2020

    Sexual minority stressors (community homophobia, sexuality-related discrimination, and internalized homonegativity) are negatively associated with accessing HIV prevention services among men who have sex with men (MSM). Few studies have tested minority stressors' associations with PrEP engagement among high-HIV risk young MSM (YMSM). Therefore, we assessed the associations between PrEP-indicated YMSM's progression along the PrEP continuum and the…

  • Towards a More Inclusive and Dynamic Understanding of Medical Mistrust Informed by Science

    Jessica Jaiswal, Perry N HalkitisARTICLEBehavioral Medicine2019

  • Resilience and Beliefs in the Effectiveness of Current Antiretroviral Therapies Among Recently Disengaged Low-Income People of Color Living with HIV

    Jessica Jaiswal, S N Singer et al.ARTICLEBehavioral Medicine2019

    Consistent antiretroviral adherence is key to viral suppression, but many low-income people of color living with HIV are not optimally adherent due to a wide variety of interrelated social and structural factors. Previous studies have found that HIV medication beliefs are an important facet of adherence. In contrast to the AZT era , currently available antiretroviral therapies are significantly safer and more effective, but research suggests that…

  • HIV-related ‘conspiracy beliefs’

    Jessica Jaiswal, Stuart N Singer et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2019

    HIV-related 'conspiracy beliefs' include ideas about the genocidal origin of HIV and the nature and purpose of HIV-related medications. These ideas have been widely documented as affecting myriad health behaviours and outcomes, including birth control use and HIV testing. Most HIV-related research has quantitatively explored this phenomenon, and further qualitative research is necessary to better understand the complexity of these beliefs as arti…