HIV/AIDS

Increasing engagement in care for persons living with HIV

Participation in methadone programs improves antiretroviral uptake and HIV viral suppression among people who inject drugs in Kenya Assisted Partner Services for People Who Inject Drugs: Index Characteristics Associated With Untreated HIV in Partners SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence, correlates, and access to harm reduction services among people who inject drugs living with and without HIV and their partners in Kenya Frequency of HIV serodifferent couples within TB-affected households in a setting with a high burden of HIV-associated TB ISPOR Europe 2023 Conference Poster: Comparing the environmental costs of differentiated service delivery of ART for people living with HIV in rural South Africa Virologic non-suppression and HIV drug resistance among people who inject drugs and their sexual and injecting partners in Kenya Modeled estimates of HIV-serodifferent couples in tuberculosis-affected households in four sub-Saharan African countries Estimating the effect of COVID- 19 pandemic restrictions on self-reported antiretroviral therapy use and late refill visits among people living with HIV in rural South Africa

Index Characteristics Manuscript

In the first year of my PhD, I worked as a Research Assistant to Drs. Carey Farquhar and Joshua Herbeck on a study that utilizes assisted partner services to increase testing and linkage to care among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Kenya and additionally uses viral phylogenetics to understand HIV and Hepatitis C virus transmission in the population (NIH R01DA043409). I first-authored a manuscript examining index participant characteristics, and co-authored manuscripts on viral suppression and HIV and SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetics within the PWID population (both in-progress). The research I conducted in this study helped me recognize the importance of linkage to and engagement in care for persons living with HIV. To further explore my research interest in linkage to HIV care, I worked on a HIV-Tuberculosis (TB) Modeling Study in September 2021-June 2022 with Dr. Jennifer Ross (NIH K01AI138620), utilizing data from clinical literature about uptake and effectiveness of HIV prevention services to estimate the health impact of linking serodiscordant couples in TB-affected households to ART for the positive partner and HIV prevention services for the negative partner. My PhD Dissertation research focused on comparing the clinical, environmental, and economic impact of home-delivered antiretroviral therapy to clinic-based refills for people living with HIV in rural South Africa.