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A multi-component intervention to reduce bias during family planning visits: qualitative insights on implementation from Burkina Faso, Pakistan and Tanzania

Beyond Bias was an intervention introduced in Burkina Faso, Pakistan and Tanzania, with the aim of reducing health worker bias toward young, unmarried and nulliparous women seeking family planning services. Th...

Corrina Moucheraud, Alexandra Wollum… in Contraception and Reproductive Medicine (2024)

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Rudi Kundini, Pamoja Kundini (RKPK): study protocol for a hybrid type 1 randomized effectiveness-implementation trial using data science and economic incentive strategies to strengthen the continuity of care among people living with HIV in Tanzania

Economic incentives can improve clinical outcomes among in-care people living with HIV (PLHIV), but evidence is limited for their effectiveness among out-of-care PLHIV or those at risk of disengagement. We pro...

Jillian L. Kadota, Laura J. Packel, Matilda Mlowe, Nzovu Ulenga, Natalino Mwenda… in Trials (2024)

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Risks of Intimate Partner Violence for Women Living with HIV Receiving Cash Transfers: A Qualitative Study in Shinyanga, Tanzania

Cash transfers are increasingly used to motivate adherence to HIV care. However, evidence on cash transfers and intimate partner violence (IPV) is mixed and little is known about their safety for women living ...

Rebecca Hémono, Agatha Mnyippembe, Atuganile Kalinjila, Jesca Msoma… in AIDS and Behavior (2023)

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Epigenome-wide association study and epigenetic age acceleration associated with cigarette smoking among Costa Rican adults

Smoking-associated DNA methylation (DNAm) signatures are reproducible among studies of mostly European descent, with mixed evidence if smoking accelerates epigenetic aging and its relationship to longevity. We...

Andres Cardenas, Simone Ecker, Raj P. Fadadu, Karen Huen… in Scientific Reports (2022)

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Optimizing the efficiency and implementation of cash transfers to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV, taken daily, is an effective strategy to clinically suppress the virus, providing the dual benefit of improved survival and vastly decreasing the risk of transmission. How...

Laura Packel, Prosper Njau, Carolyn Fahey, Angela Ramadhani, William H. Dow… in Trials (2020)

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Differential DNA methylation and lymphocyte proportions in a Costa Rican high longevity region

The Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica has one of the highest old-age life expectancies in the world, but the underlying biological mechanisms of this longevity are not well understood. As DNA methylation is hypot...

Lisa M. McEwen, Alexander M. Morin, Rachel D. Edgar… in Epigenetics & Chromatin (2017)

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AllerGen’s 8th research conference

Marie-Claire Arrieta, Andrea Arevalos… in Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology (2016)

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Rationale and design of a randomized study of short-term food and cash assistance to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy among food insecure HIV-infected adults in Tanzania

Food insecurity is an important barrier to retention in care and adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) among people living with HIV infection (PLHIV). However, there is a lack of rigorous evidence about ho...

Sandra I. McCoy, Prosper F. Njau, Nancy L. Czaicki… in BMC Infectious Diseases (2015)

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Predicting mortality with biomarkers: a population-based prospective cohort study for elderly Costa Ricans

Little is known about adult health and mortality relationships outside high-income nations, partly because few datasets have contained biomarker data in representative populations. Our objective is to determin...

Luis Rosero-Bixby, William H Dow in Population Health Metrics (2012)