Trial reportJournal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)2018
Brief Report: HIV Assisted Partner Services Among Those With and Without a History of Intimate Partner Violence in Kenya.
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- Identifying the Impact of Intimate Partner Violence in Humanitarian Settings: Using an Ecological Framework to Review 15 Years of Evidence.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Prison-based HIV partner notification in Indonesia: rationale and design of a hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation study.BMC public health · 2026Trial
- Opportunistic intestinal parasitic infections and associated factors among patients living with HIV/AIDS attending antiretroviral therapy in the Central Ethiopia Regional State: a multi-center analytical cross-sectional study.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Factors influencing community demand for assisted partner services for HIV in western Kenya: a multilevel qualitative analysis.BMJ open · 2025Article
- "The targets…are driving the agenda and that probably needs to change": stakeholder perspectives on HIV partner notification in sub-Saharan Africa.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Uptake and acceptability of oral HIV self-testing in the context of assisted partner services in Western Kenya: A mixed-methods analysis.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Implementation fidelity to HIV assisted partner services (aPS) during scale-up in western Kenya: a convergent mixed methods study.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Real-world impact of integrating HIV assisted partner services into 31 facilities in Kenya: a single-arm, hybrid type 2 implementation-effectiveness study.The Lancet. Global health · 2023Article
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- Integration of assisted partner services within Kenya's national HIV testing services program: A qualitative study.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Cost of integrating assisted partner services in HIV testing services in Kisumu and Homa Bay counties, Kenya: a microcosting study.BMC health services research · 2022Article
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- Understanding the role of interpersonal violence in assisted partner notification for HIV: a mixed-methods study in refugee settlements in West Nile Uganda.Journal of global health · 2020Article
- Index and targeted community-based testing to optimize HIV case finding and ART linkage among men in Zambia.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2020Article
- Time to HIV testing of sexual contacts identified by HIV-positive index clients in Siaya County, Kenya.PloS one · 2020Article
- Assisted partner notification services for patients receiving HIV care and treatment in an HIV clinic in Nairobi, Kenya: a qualitative assessment of barriers and opportunities for scale-up.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2019Article
- Estimating the Relative Excess Risk Due to Interaction in Clustered-Data Settings.American journal of epidemiology · 2018Article
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11 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundHIV assisted partner services (APS) are a notification and testing strategy for sex partners of HIV-infected index patients. This cluster-randomized controlled trial secondary data analysis investigated whether history of intimate partner violence (IPV) modified APS effectiveness and risk of relationship dissolution.
settingEighteen HIV testing and counseling sites in Kenya randomized to provide immediate APS (intervention) or APS delayed for 6 weeks (control).
methodsHistory of IPV was ascertained at study enrollment and defined as reporting ever experiencing physical or sexual IPV. Those reporting IPV in the month before enrollment were excluded. We tested whether history of IPV modified intervention effectiveness and risk of relationship dissolution using population-averaged Poisson and log-binomial generalized estimating equation models. Exploratory analyses investigated associations between history of IPV and events that occurred after HIV diagnosis using log-binomial generalized estimating equation models.
resultsThe study enrolled 1119 index participants and 1286 partners. Among index participants, 81 (7%) had history of IPV. History of IPV did not modify APS effectiveness in testing, newly diagnosing, or linking partners to care. History of IPV did not modify the association between receiving immediate APS and relationship dissolution during the study.
conclusionsAmong participants who had not experienced IPV in the last month but had experienced IPV in their lifetimes, our results suggest that APS is an effective and safe partner notification strategy in Kenya. As APS is scaled up in different contexts, these data support including those reporting past IPV and closely monitoring adverse events.
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