Browsing Department of Internal Medicine by Author "Adong, Julian"
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Agreement Between Measures of Adherence to Isoniazid Preventive Therapy Among People With HIV in Uganda
Forman, Leah S.; Lodi, Sara; Fatch, Robin; Emenyonu, Nneka I.; Adong, Julian; Ngabirano, Christine; Jacobson, Karen R.; Gerona, Roy; Reckers, Andrew R.; Gandhi, Monica; Muyindike, Winnie R.; Hahn, Judith A. (In Open forum infectious diseases, 2022)Background: Isoniazid (INH) preventative therapy is recommended for people with HIV (PWH) in resource-constrained settings. Valid measures are needed to assess adherence. We aimed to examine agreement between measures ... -
Alcohol Use and HIV Disease Progression in an Antiretroviral Naive Cohort
Hahn, Judith A.; Cheng, Debbie M.; Emenyonu, Nneka I.; Lloyd-Travaglini, Christine; Fatch, Robin; Shade, Starley B.; Ngabirano, Christine; Adong, Julian; Bryant, Kendall; Muyindike, Winnie R.; Samet, Jeffrey H. (JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2018)Background: Alcohol use has been shown to accelerate disease progression in experimental studies of simian immunodeficiency virus in macaques, but the results in observational studies of HIV have been conflicting. Methods: ... -
Association between smoking and lack of HIV virological suppression in a cross-sectional study of persons with HIV on antiretroviral therapy in Uganda
Tumwegamire, Adah; Fatch, Robin; Emenyonu, Nneka I.; Lodi, Sara; Muyindike, Winnie R.; Kekibiina, Allen; Adong, Julian; Ngabirano, Christine; Beesiga, Brian; Marson, Kara; Golabi, Nakisa; Kamya, Moses; Chamie, Gabriel; Hahn, Judith A. (PLoS ONE, 2024)Background: Smoking and alcohol use frequently co-occur and are the leading causes of preventable death in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and are common among people living with HIV (PLWH). While alcohol use has been shown to ... -
Cell Phone Availability and Usage for mHealth and Intervention Delivery to Persons Living With HIV in a Low-Resource Setting: Cross-sectional Study
Adong, Julian; Fatch, Robin; Emenyonu, Nneka; Muyindike, Winnie; Ngabirano, Christine; Cheng, Debbie; Hahn, Judith (JMIR Formative Research, 2022)Background: HIV/AIDS is now a manageable chronic illness owing to effective antiretroviral therapy (ART), which involves routine follow-up care, including regular physical visits to the clinic. In the recent past, and in ... -
Participant perspectives on incentives for TB preventative therapy adherence and reduced alcohol use: A qualitative study
Appa, Ayesha; Miller, Amanda P.; Fatch, Robin; Kekibiina, Allen; Beesiga, Brian; Adong, Julian; Emenyonu, Nneka; Marson, Kara; Getahun, Monica; Kamya, Moses; Muyindike, Winnie; McDonell, Michael; Thirumurthy, Harsha; Hahn, Judith A.; Chamie, Gabriel; Camlin, Carol S. (PLOS Global Public Health, 2024)Economic incentives to promote health behavior change are highly efficacious for substance use disorders as well as increased medication adherence. Knowledge about participants’ experiences with and perceptions of incentives ... -
Post-traumatic stress disorder among persons with HIV who engage in heavy alcohol consumption in southwestern Uganda
Kekibiina, Allen; Adong, Julian; Fatch, Robin; Emenyonu, Nneka I.; Marson, Kara; Beesiga, Brian; Lodi, Sara; Muyindike, Winnie R.; Kamya, Moses; Chamie, Gabriel; McDonell, Michael G.; Hahn, Judith A. (BMC psychiatry, 2021)Background: We aimed to describe the prevalence of PTSD symptoms and its associated factors in persons living with HIV (PLWH) in Uganda who engage in heavy alcohol use. Methods: We analyzed baseline data from the Drinkers ... -
Prevalence of elevated liver transaminases and their relationship with alcohol use in people living with HIV on anti-retroviral therapy in Uganda
Freiman, J. Morgan; Fatch, Robin; Cheng, Debbie; Emenyonu, Nneka; Ngabirano, Christine; Geadas, Carolina; Adong, Julian; Muyindike, Winnie R.; Linas, Benjamin P.; Jacobson, Karen R.; Hahn, Judith A. (PloS one, 2021)Background: Isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) reduces tuberculosis reactivation and mortality among persons living with HIV (PLWH), yet hepatotoxicity concerns exclude “regular and heavy alcohol drinkers” from IPT. We ... -
Social Desirability Bias Impacts Self-Reported Alcohol Use Among Persons With HIV in Uganda
Adong, Julian; Fatch, Robin; Emenyonu, Nneka I.; Cheng, Debbie M.; Muyindike, Winnie R.; Ngabirano, Christine; Kekibiina, Allen; Woolf-King, Sarah E.; Samet, Jeffrey H.; Hahn, Judith A. (Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2019)Background: Self-report is widely used to assess alcohol use in research and clinical practice, but may be subject to social desirability bias. We aimed to determine if social desirability impacts self-reported alcohol ... -
Tuberculin skin test positivity among HIVinfected alcohol drinkers on antiretrovirals in south-western Uganda
Muyindike, Winnie R.; Fatch, Robin; Cheng, Debbie M.; Emenyonu, Nneka I.; Ngabirano, Christine; Adong, Julian; Linas, Benjamin P.; Jacobson, Karen R.; Hahn, Judith A. (PloS one, 2020)Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death among people living with HIV (PLWH), and current evidence suggests that heavy alcohol users have an increased risk of developing TB disease compared to non-drinkers. ... -
Unhealthy Alcohol Use Is Associated With Suboptimal Adherence to Isoniazid Preventive Therapy in Persons With HIV in Southwestern Ugand
Muyindike, Winnie R.; Fatch, Robin; Cheng, Debbie M.; Emenyonu, Nneka I.; Forman, Leah; Ngabirano, Christine; Adong, Julian; Linas, Benjamin; Jacobson, Karen R.; Hahn, Judith A. (JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2022)Background: Unhealthy alcohol use is associated with increased progression to tuberculosis (TB) disease, but its effect on adherence to isoniazid (INH) preventive therapy is not known. Methods: This was a prospective ...