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Actual Versus Perceived HIV Testing Norms, and Personal HIV Testing Uptake: A Cross-Sectional, Population-Based Study in Rural Uganda
(Springer Link, 2017-02-23)
HIV testing is an essential part of treatment and prevention. Using population-based data from 1664 adults across eight villages in rural Uganda, we assessed individuals’ perception of the norm for HIV testing uptake in ...
Beyond HIV-serodiscordance: Partnership communication dynamics that affect engagement in safer conception care
(PLoS ONE, 2017-09-07)
Introduction
We explored acceptability and feasibility of safer conception methods among HIV-affected
couples in Uganda.
Methods
We recruited HIV-positive men and women on antiretroviral therapy (ART) (`index') from ...
High Mobility Group Box 1 (HMGB1) and HIV-Associated Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Africa
(Academia.edu, 2015)
Other than Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and CD4+ T cell lymphopenia, the mechanisms responsible for KS are poorly understood. Additional mechanisms must exist in sub-Saharan Africa given that only a ...
Food insecurity, depression and the modifying role of social support among people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Uganda
(Social science & medicine, 2012)
Depression is common among people living with HIV/AIDS and contributes to a wide range of worsened HIV-related outcomes, including AIDS-related mortality. Targeting modifiable causes of depression, either through primary ...
How Does Antiretroviral Treatment Attenuate the Stigma of HIV? Evidence from a Cohort Study in Rural Uganda
(AIDS and Behavior, 2013)
Program implementers and qualitative researchers have described how increasing availability of
HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) is associated with improvements in psychosocial health and internalized stigma. To determine ...
Population-based study of intra-household gender differences in water insecurity: reliability and validity of a survey instrument for use in rural Uganda
(Journal of water and health, 2016)
Hundreds of millions of people worldwide lack adequate access to water. Water insecurity, which is defined as having limited or uncertain availability of safe water or the ability to acquire safe water in socially acceptable ...
Variation in HIV-1 Nef function within and among viral subtypes reveals genetically separable antagonism of SERINC3 and SERINC5
(PLoS pathogens, 2020)
HIV Nef counteracts cellular host restriction factors SERINC3 and SERINC5, but our understanding of how naturally occurring global Nef sequence diversity impacts these activities is
limited. Here, we quantify SERINC3 and ...
Timing of Antiretroviral Therapy and Systemic Inflammation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Results From the META Longitudinal Cohort Study
(The Journal of infectious diseases, 2019)
Chronic inflammation predicts complications in persons with human immunodeficiency virus infection. We compared D-dimer, soluble CD14, and interleukin 6 levels before and 12 months after antiretroviral therapy (ART) ...
Inflammatory biomarkers prior to antiretroviral therapy as prognostic markers of 12-month mortality in South Africa and Uganda
(AIDS, 2019)
Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the utility of biomarkers of immune activation, systemic inflammation and coagulopathy prior to antiretroviral therapy to predict mortality during the first year of ...
A Causal Framework for Understanding the Effect of Losses to Follow-up on Epidemiologic Analyses in Clinic-based Cohorts: The Case of HIV-infected Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy in Africa
(American journal of epidemiology, 2012)
Although clinic-based cohorts are most representative of the ‘‘real world,’’ they are susceptible to loss to follow-up. Strategies for managing the impact of loss to follow-up are therefore needed to maximize the value of ...