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pro vyhledávání: '"Sharon S Weir"'
Autor:
Grace E Mulholland, Michael E Herce, Brenda A Okech, Kidola Jeremiah, Ubaldo M Bahemuka, Zachary A Kwena, Gertrude Nanyonjo, Janet Seeley, Audrey Pettifor, Michael Emch, Sharon S Weir, Jessie K Edwards
Publikováno v:
PLOS Global Public Health, Vol 3, Iss 8, p e0002259 (2023)
In the Lake Victoria region of East Africa, little is known about delays between tuberculosis (TB) symptom onset and presentation at a clinic. Associations between clinic presentation delay and TB treatment outcomes are also poorly understood. In 201
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/f379303a78b646179a1ad07742eb9544
Autor:
Grace E Mulholland, Michael E Herce, Ubaldo M Bahemuka, Zachary A Kwena, Kidola Jeremiah, Brenda A Okech, Elizabeth Bukusi, Elialilia S Okello, Gertrude Nanyonjo, Ali Ssetaala, Janet Seeley, Michael Emch, Audrey Pettifor, Sharon S Weir, Jessie K Edwards
Publikováno v:
PLOS Global Public Health, Vol 3, Iss 6, p e0001992 (2023)
Geographic mobility may disrupt continuity of care and contribute to poor clinical outcomes among people receiving treatment for tuberculosis (TB). This may occur especially where health services are not well coordinated across international borders,
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/5911b7df05094b16ae3a99f1cb659736
Autor:
Sharon S Weir, J Peter Figueroa, Marion Scott, Lovette Byfield, Carol Jones Cooper, Marcia C Hobbs
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 13, Iss 11, p e0206962 (2018)
INTRODUCTION:HIV prevention strategies often include outreach to female sex workers at social venues identified as places where people meet new sexual partners. Patrons and staff at these venues may include female sex workers, their clients, as well
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/590b24eb78e14f9f83b7657b447260b5
Autor:
J Peter Figueroa, Carol Jones Cooper, Jessie K Edwards, Lovette Byfield, Shashauna Eastman, Marcia M Hobbs, Sharon S Weir
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 10, Iss 2, p e0117686 (2015)
OBJECTIVES:This study estimates HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Jamaica and explores social determinants of HIV infection among MSM. DESIGN:An island-wide cross-sectional survey of MSM recruited by peer referral and outreach w
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/f45601852d414e42add47418d791af88
Autor:
Sharon S. Weir, Milissa Markiewicz, Jessie K. Edwards, Grace Mulholland, Freddie Ssengooba, Peter Arimi
Publikováno v:
AIDS and Behavior. 26:556-568
In cross-border areas of East Africa, sexual networks include partnerships across resident, migrant, and mobile populations, and risky behaviors can coincide with fragmented health services given the challenges of cross-border coordination. Among tho
Autor:
Joseph D. Tucker, Donaldson F. Conserve, Suzanne Day, Zahra Reynolds, Sharon S. Weir, Takhona Grace Hlatshwako
Publikováno v:
Sex Transm Dis
BACKGROUND: Sub-Saharan African HIV programs have had limited success in engaging men. Crowdsourcing contests may be a useful method to spur men’s engagement in HIV services. We evaluated contributions and social media response to a crowdsourcing c
Autor:
Freddie Ssengooba, Sharon S. Weir, Milissa Markiewicz, Grace Mulholland, Susan Babirye, Peter Arimi, Steven Ssendagire, Michael E Herce, Jessie K. Edwards
Publikováno v:
AIDS
Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate HIV testing yield under several candidate strategies for outreach testing at venues (i.e. places where people socialize and meet new sex partners) in East Africa cross-border areas. Design Population-ba
Autor:
Nicole Y Frascino, Joanna Maselko, Sharon S. Weir, Nyanyiwe M. Mbeye, Michael E Herce, Brian W. Pence, Audrey Pettifor, Jessie K. Edwards
Publikováno v:
AIDS Behav
In the high HIV-burden country of Malawi, female sex workers (FSW) are one of the populations most profoundly affected by HIV. The Malawi Priorities for Local AIDS Control Efforts (PLACE) surveyed 1,004 self-identified FSW, 213 other FSW (OFSW), and
Autor:
Augustine Ankomah, Waimar Tun, Seth Afagbedzi, Silas Quaye, Sharon S. Weir, Kwasi Torpey, Chris Bambey Guure, Samuel Dery
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 9, p e0256949 (2021)
PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE
Background Key Population size estimation (PSE) is instrumental for HIV/STI preventive, treatment and care services planning, implementation and delivery. The objective was to estimate the overall population of female sex workers (FSW) in all the 16
Autor:
Jinkou Zhao, Weibin Cheng, Sharon S. Weir, Joseph D. Tucker, Weiming Tang, Huifang Xu, Fei Zhong, Stephen W. Pan
Publikováno v:
BMC Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2018)
BMC Public Health
BMC Public Health
Background Timely monitoring HIV epidemic among key populations is a formidable challenge. This study aimed to evaluate the agreement between data collected from an enhanced HIV sentinel surveillance (HSS+) and an HIV service, and to discuss whether