Table 1.

AHWG meeting information (held over 11 months between 2019 and 2020)^*

Date of AHWG Session	Number of Attendees	Topics raised by AHWG members related to Adolescent Health and HIV in Durham Community
August 2019	25 (20 adults, 5 youth)	• Religion, churches, faith community as partners in this work • Access to care is an issue, (insured youth unwilling to talk to parents)* • Finding Same Gender Loving Black men as community advocates • “Seasons” of HIV risk for youth at different ages must be considered • Understanding larger issues than health or HIV in the community* • Structural barriers to HIV prevention medication (PrEP) and staying in care • Youth and transportation are barriers to AHWG and also getting HIV care* • Youth must be taught more sex education in schools • Making sure we do not silence youth in this work*
September 2019	18 (12 adults, 6 youth)	• PrEP needs to be available for the whole community • HIV challenges are different for youth and grown-ups* • Reaching youth must be done at the right place with the right info* • Involving parents, trusted adults and the community to reach youth over time is necessary for sustainability • PrEP info is for everyone should not be only for specific groups • Youth leadership has to be the focus of our activities*
October 2019	21 (13 adults, 8 youth)	• How to address concerns about the PrEP lawsuit that had received media coverage • Lack of school-based education on sex and contraception* • Finding youth spokespeople who are willing to share their journey, perhaps those living with HIV* • Getting PrEP, affording PrEP, and privacy in taking PrEP are real challenges • Finding PrEP materials that don’t discuss ‘high risk’ is imperative* • Using art to share our mission and educate youth about HIV can reach a young generation*
November 2019	19 (12 adults, 7 youth)	• Finding youth spokespeople who are willing to share their journey* • Allowing youth to decide the title for Youth GO (boring) • Finding PrEP materials that don’t discuss ‘high risk’ • Addressing perceptions about study eligibility for Aim 3 surveys • which did not specify ‘Black youth’ or ‘LGBT youth’* • Figuring out how to create a ‘youth-only advisory board’ which is not the AHWG but can advise its members (possible via Youth GO?)*
February 2020	16	• Sex education and PrEP counseling need to addressing power and consent around condoms and sex • Future programs must address that youth staying on PrEP every day will be hard* • Programs like this should not disappear as soon as the ‘funding ends’ • HIV and PrEP programs need to be cognizant of the many other things our community is dealing with such as racial injustice and police brutality and violence
June 2020 (virtual)	20 (12 adults, 8 youth)	• Getting PrEP, affording PrEP, and privacy in taking PrEP are real challenges • Finding PrEP materials that don’t discuss ‘high risk’ is imperative* • Using art to share our mission and educate youth about HIV can reach a young generation* • HIV and PrEP programs need to be cognizant of the many other things our community is dealing with such as racial injustice and police brutality and violence • AHWG participants want to see newsletters with periodic updates from the program including study results • Periodic AHWG meeting just to ‘catch up’ virtually would be welcome*

^*denotes topics that were concerns voiced by youth