A5028605288- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues
- Sex work and related issues
- HIV Research and Treatment
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- African Studies and Ethnography
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- African history and culture studies
- African studies and sociopolitical issues
- Migration, Identity, and Health
- Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Cervical Cancer and HPV Research
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Race, History, and American Society
- Asian Studies and History
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Hepatitis B Virus Studies
- Gender and Women's Rights
- Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues
University of Maryland, College Park
2021-2024
University of Manitoba
2021
University of Memphis
2020
Columbia University
2014-2018
Kalamazoo College
2017-2018
Northwestern University
2017
AIDS United
2014
American University
2011
In the past decade, discourses about AIDS have taken a remarkable, and largely unquestioned, turn. Whereas mobilisations for treatment scale-up during 2000s were premised on perceptions of an 'epidemic out control', we repeatedly been informed in more recent years that end to is immanent. This new discourse its resulting policies are motivated by post-recession financial pressures, changing field global institutions, shifting health development priorities. These shifts also reflect...
Objectives. To elucidate a structurally oriented theoretical framework that considers legacies of racism, trauma, and social exclusion to interrogate the "unmet obligations" institutionalization harm reduction infrastructure provide equitable protections Black Latinx people who use drugs (PWUD) in Maryland. Methods. In 2019, we conducted rapid ethnographic assessment qualitative interviews with PWUD (n = 72) stakeholders 85) 5 Maryland counties. We assessed PWUD's experiences, service gaps...
Introduction Free or low‐cost HIV testing, condoms, and lubricants are foundational prevention strategies, yet often inaccessible for men who have sex with (MSM). In the global context of stigma poor healthcare access, transgender (trans) MSM may face additional barriers to services. Drawing on data from a survey MSM, we aimed describe perceived access services among trans examine associations between compare cisgender (non‐transgender) MSM. Methods The 2014 Global Men's Health Rights online...
In the USA, gay and other men who have sex with transgender women are disproportionately affected by HIV. Uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), anti-retroviral therapy to prevent HIV-negative individuals from seroconverting if exposed HIV, members this population remains low, particularly among African-Americans. We conducted two focus groups assess responses an online social media campaign focusing on PrEP use in New York City. designed, produced disseminated address knowledge PrEP;...
Young men who have sex with (YMSM) are disproportionally impacted by HIV, and continue to lag behind other age groups in the receipt of HIV prevention care services. To inform development interventions improve pre-exposure prophylaxis engagement outcomes among YMSM, a growing number studies reported barriers facilitators YMSM encounter when accessing Few studies, however, assessed how service providers perceive these barriers. In total, 21 interviews were conducted Chicago about they...
The global scale-up of AIDS treatment initiatives during the first decade twenty-first century has been referred to as a kind ‘pharmaceuticalisation’ public health, trend that is now building in area HIV prevention. This paper traces emergence and increased uptake pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), antiretroviral medications can keep negative individuals from becoming infected, placing it within broader (re)casting prevention medical technological problem central recent ‘end AIDS’ discourse....
Objectives:The health and prevention benefits of antiretroviral therapies (ART), delivered as part comprehensive HIV care programs remain unrealized for men who have sex with (MSM).This multilevel study explores the correlates drop-off from continuum in an international MSM, taking into account individual regional differences access to utilization care. Methods:We conducted a diagnosis among 6095 MSM using data collected online survey 2012.In this model treatment cascade, we treated each...
In the fight against concentrated HIV epidemics, men who have sex with (MSM) are often framed as a homogeneous population, little attention paid to sexual and gender diversity its impact on vulnerability. This article draws ethnographic research conducted in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire among les branchés - local term encompassing several categories of same-sex desire practice. context increased prevention programming targeting Ivoirian minorities, such is effectively erased. obfuscation...
Among sexual and gender minorities in Côte d'Ivoire, travestis are defined as individuals born anatomically male who live women on a full- or part-time basis. Travestis encounter harsher stigmatization violence than whose normativity allows them to avoid unwanted attention. Moreover, they have traditionally been underserved by Ivoirian minority rights groups, worked distance themselves from travestis, framing recklessly indiscreet. In this paper, we examine the extent which travestis'...
HIV self-testing (HIVST) has emerged as a way of reaching individuals who may be less likely to access testing, including men have sex with (MSM). Understanding the social networks MSM is key tailoring interventions, such HIVST, for particular locations.We undertook socio-sexual network study characterize and identify patterns connection among inform an HIVST intervention in three sites Kenya. Community researchers each site selected eight seeds complete demographic form surveys 15 their...
Inferring HIV transmission networks from sequences is gaining popularity in the field of molecular epidemiology. However, are often analyzed at distance those affected by epidemics, namely without involvement communities most HIV. These remote analyses mean that knowledge generated absence lived experiences and socio-economic realities could inform ethical application network-derived information 'real world' programmes. Procedures to engage noticeably absent epidemiology literature. Here we...
This special symposium critically examines optimistic promises about an imminent 'end of AIDS,' currently circulating in global health discourse and policy. We aim not simply to interrogate the surrounding calls end AIDS, but also explore broader practices, contexts, policy landscapes that have transformed HIV response during fourth decade epidemic allowed this gain such political traction. In introduction we preview collection's five substantive papers, which delve beneath AIDS' rhetoric,...
The Kenyan government offers free HIV self-testing kits to men who have sex with men. value of is based on the imaginary an autonomous technosubject empowered independently control testing services, thereby "freed," through technology, from social conditions that might inhibit health services utilization. Following a community-centered collaborative approach, community researchers interviewed their peers examined and reacted technology. Participants reframed as intertwined world kit itself...
The correlation between current alcohol use and sexual risk behaviors among men who have sex with (MSM) is well documented, but little known about age of drinking onset risks this population. Data from a 2008 Internet survey 8,452 MSM in the United States were used to assess factors associated use. In multivariable model, before 15 was significantly higher number lifetime male anal partners being behaviorally bisexual past 12 months. Men reported depressive symptoms two weeks or screened...
In Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 18% of men who have sex with (MSM) are HIV-positive. Based on ethnographic research conducted among HIV peer educators and activists in I examine their narratives hand-drawn maps city space. draw a methodological process map-making to participants’ evaluations neighborhoods link these debates over national cultural belonging d’Ivoire. suggest moral geography emerges from the ask what bioethical implications context service delivery activism sexual minorities.
ABSTRACTSince the 1990s, researchers have used community-based participatory approaches to achieve outcomes relevant local communities, build collaborative and sustainable research infrastructures, address disparities in knowledge production. Notwithstanding these strengths, communities questioned its success addressing power imbalances inherent encounters. In this methodological paper, we describe a novel program science approach guide an interdisciplinary project on HIV self-testing among...
Despite the Internet’s global importance as a sex-seeking venue for men who have sex with (MSM) and other sexual gender minorities, little is known about this topic in sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore, existing public health research offers limited insight into sociocultural aspects of sexuality how they articulate patterns online behavior. In 2015, we conducted survey ethnographic 105 minorities Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Nearly half respondents reported finding partners primarily online. Three...
<ns3:p>Background Men who have sex with men (MSM) in Kenya continue to face barriers HIV testing, which leads delays prevention and care. An self-testing (HIVST) intervention was implemented three Kenyan counties increase coverage frequency of testing among MSM communities high prevalence. The evaluation study examined how HIVST can are unaware their status by increasing coverage, frequency, early uptake support linkages treatment. We share results from the process partnership MSM-led...
We aimed to illuminate the challenges of treating anal diseases among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with (GBMSM) in a homophobic climate amid resource constraints. Building on long-term Kenyan-Canadian collaboration, an healthcare intervention study, known as WEMAH Project, was initiated January 2022. The initial collaborative work strengthened existing health services provided at community-based clinic serving GBMSM Nairobi. illness treatment journey for one patient is...
Financial technology tools have been utilised to create readily available mobile loan platforms for urban-based, daily-wage earners in Kenya. From a financial lending perspective, this development signals greater inclusion and equality formal bank financing systems. In paper, however, we examine loans their repayment from the perspective of women who sell sex Nairobi, drawing upon qualitative findings two community-based studies conducted close collaboration with worker-led organisations...
Abstract Background: Understanding the basic principles for achieving research outcomes that are relevant to local communities is invaluable. The process allows building of collaborative spaces and redistribution power in knowledge production practices. This because members marginalized vulnerable have long been critical a culture has historically failed advance meaningful collaboration overlooks forms at various phases processes. There however not clear framework outlines how should be...