Reed, Elizabeth West, Brooke S Frost, Elizabeth Salazar, Marissa Silverman, Jay G McIntosh, Craig T Gómez, María Gudelia Rangel Urada, Lianne A Brouwer, Kimberly C
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AIDS and behavior
Economic vulnerability is often reported to underlie involvement in sex work among female sex workers (FSW), but may also create urgency in women's work, limiting women's negotiating power with clients and in turn, increasing their vulnerability for violence and HIV. This study assessed economic vulnerability in relation to violence and sexual risk...
Jaffer, Maya Christofides, Nicola Hlongwane, Khuthadzo Otwombe, Kennedy Milovanovic, Minja Hopkins, Kathryn L Matuludi, Mokgadi Mbowane, Venice Abdullah, Fareed Gray, Glenda
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AIDS and behavior
Female sex workers (FSWs) in South Africa experience a uniquely high prevalence of HIV. We describe the HIV cascade of care (CoC) in FSWs in South Africa, and explored service utilisation at sex work programmes. A cross-sectional, study enrolled FSWs across 12 sites in South Africa. Participants were recruited using chain-referral method. Inclusion...
Vavala, Gabriella Wang, Qiao Jimenez, Sergio Ramos, Wilson E Ocasio, Manuel A Romero-Espinoza, Adriana Flynn, Risa Bolan, Robert Fernandez, M Isabel Doan, Pearl
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AIDS and behavior
The substance use, violence, and AIDS (SAVA) syndemic framework is used to study risk for HIV/AIDS. As a secondary analysis from a large HIV/AIDS prevention study, we categorized participants into having from zero to three SAVA conditions based on the presence or absence of self-reported substance use in the past 4 months, history of lifetime sexua...
Chipanta, David Pettifor, Audrey Edwards, Jessie Giovenco, Danielle Topazian, Hillary Mariko Bray, Rachel M Millington, Monique C Estill, Janne Keiser, Olivia Justman, Jessica E
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AIDS and behavior
We aimed to measure social protection coverage among the general population, women and men living with HIV (WLHIV, MLHV), female and male sex workers (FSW, MSW), men who have sex with men (MSM), adolescent girls young women (AGYW), and orphans vulnerable children (OVC) in Eswatini, Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia. We used Population-Based HIV Impact A...
Beesham, Ivana Dovel, Kathryn Mashele, Nyiko Bekker, Linda-Gail Gorbach, Pamina Coates, Thomas J Myer, Landon Joseph Davey, Dvora Leah
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AIDS and behavior
Cisgender women, particularly pregnant and postpartum women in Eastern and Southern Africa, face an unacceptably high risk of HIV acquisition. Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an effective HIV prevention intervention that can reduce HIV acquisition and vertical transmission. In this qualitative study, we interviewed 21 postpartum women from ...
Jones, Jeb Zlotorzynska, Maria Villarino, Xaviera Sanchez, Travis
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AIDS and behavior
Men who have sex with men (MSM) account for the majority of new HIV diagnoses in the United States, including in rural areas, and MSM in rural areas face additional barriers to accessing culturally competent and appropriate HIV/STI preventive care. Multiple methods have been used to classify areas in the United States as rural, but none of these me...
Zhao, Xinyu Milford, Cecilia Smit, Jenni Zulu, Bongiwe Boyd, Peter Malcolm, R Karl Beksinska, Mags
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AIDS and behavior
Steroid-releasing vaginal rings are available for contraception and estrogen replacement therapy, and a new antiretroviral-releasing ring was recently approved for HIV prevention. Marketed rings are white or transparent in appearance, non-scented, and supplied as one-size-fits-all devices with diameters ranging from 54 to 56 mm. In this study, drug...
Woolf-King, Sarah E Firkey, Madison Foley, Jacklyn D Bricker, Jonathan Hahn, Judith A Asiago-Reddy, Elizabeth Wikier, John Moskal, Dezarie Sheinfil, Alan Z Ramos, Jeremy
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AIDS and behavior
Alcohol use among people living with HIV (PWH) has been increasingly recognized as an important component of HIV care. Transdiagnostic treatments, such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), that target core processes common to multiple mental health and substance-related problems, may be ideal in HIV treatment settings where psychological and...
Johnson, Laura M Green, Harold D Jr Lu, Minggen Stockman, Jamila K Felsher, Marisa Roth, Alexis M Wagner, Karla D
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Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) health campaigns invite women to talk with their provider, partner, and peers about PrEP, though they do not offer specific guidance about who and how to engage. This study uses egocentric network methods in a sample of women at risk for HIV to understand what characteristics of women (egos), their networks, and netw...
Xavier Hall, Casey D Newcomb, Michael E Dyar, Christina Mustanski, Brian
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AIDS and behavior
Se recomienda la profilaxis previa a la exposición al VIH (PrEP) en una formulación diaria para reducir la transmisión del VIH para las personas con un riesgo elevado, incluido las minorías de género y sexualidade que se les asignó el sexo masculino al nacer (SGM-AMAB). Pocos estudios han examinado el reinicio entre los que suspenden la PrEP, lo cu...
