Current Research Projects (January 2004)

Asia
      Cambodia

• Reproductive health education and STD Intervention for the Prevention of HIV Infection among Beer Promotion Girls in Cambodia (Sun, Page-Shafer)
• Phase III Trial of Pharmacological HIV-1 Prevention (PREP) in Cambodia (Page-Shafer) [project temporarily suspended]
• Evaluation of the risk behavior of female sex workers participating in the tenofovir pre-exposure prophylaxis study in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Sopheab, Page-Shafer)

    China

• Tongzhi Men’s Health Project in China (Choi)
• HIV risk reduction and methadone maintenance treatment in Shanghai, China (Zhen, Choi)

      India

• An Intervention for Male STD Patients in Mumbai, India (Lindan, Setia, Kumta)
• AIDS Stigma & Gender: Health Consequences in Urban India (Ekstrand, Krishnan)
• Examining Prevention Needs of HIV Positive Men in India (Setia, Ekstrand, Lindan)
• Evaluation of a New Less-Sensitive EIA Testing Strategy to Determine HIV Incidence in Subtype C Populations in India (Lindan)
• Evaluation of STIs and HIV using new diagnostic techniques in Mumbai (Kumta, Lindan)
• Behavioral Intervention among HIV serodiscordant couples (d’Souza, Lindan, van der Straten)
• Prevalence of and factors associated with disclosure of HIV positive status among men having sex with men in Mumbai (Deshmukh, Lindan)
• Sexual practices among males having sex with males in Chennai, Tamilnadu (Menon, Ekstrand)

    Nepal

• The acceptability of PMTCT among HIV-positive commercial sex workers returning from India to Kathmandu, Nepal (Bhatt, Pitter, Mandel)

    Thailand

• Reducing drop-outs and increasing adherence-rates among PLHA on HAART in Northern Thailand (Rumakom, Lindan)
• A pilot study of the use of an Interactive Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) Game as an Educational Tool to Educate Injecting Drug Users about HIV Prevention (Kittikraisek, Page-Shafer)

      Vietnam

• Sustaining Vietnam’s First Anonymous HIV Counseling and Testing Center (Lindan, Mandel, Bain, Thinh)
• Developing an HIV/AIDS Research Center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (Thinh, Lindan)

Africa
      South Africa

• Randomized Trial for a Community STI Screening Program in Cape Town (Altini, McFarland)
• The seroprevalence of HHV8 in blood donors in Durban, South Africa (Dawood, Martin)

      Uganda

• Social Factors, Sexual Activity and Risk Behavior among Gay/Bisexual Men in Uganda (Kajubi, Rutherford, McFarland)
• Prevalence of oral thrush among children born to HIV positive mothers (Ssali, Page-Shafer)
• Impact of condom use skills education on condom acquisition and use in Kampala, Uganda (Kajubi, McFarland)
• The potential use of traditional healers for family planning and HIV prevention in Kiboga District, Uganda (Ssali, McFarland)

      Zimbabwe

• Randomized Trial of HIV Prevention in Harare Beerhalls (McFarland, Fritz)
• The use of HIV PEP for sexual assault victims in Harare, Zimbabwe- A feasibility pilot study (Nhemachena, McFarland)

Latin America
      Brazil

• Feasibility of Data Collection from Clients and their Sexual Partners, Brazil (Bacon, Page-Shafer)
• HIV transmission in bisexual men in Rio de Janeiro: an intervention for risk reduction (do Lago, Page-Shafer)
• Safe sex and perceptions about HAART among young MSM in Sao Paulo, Brazil (da Silva, Page-Shafer)
• Impact of recently acquired HIV infection on tuberculosis-specific and cytomegalovirus-specific IFN-gamma production by T cells: Comparison of persons with recently acquired HIV infection vs. HIV negative persons (Turcato, Page-Shafer)
• High risk human papilloma viruses in anal lesions and their association with HIV-1 subtypes B and C in men and women from southern Brazil (Herrera, Page-Shafer)
• Evaluation of the relationship between motivational factors for blood donation and HIV risks (Goncalez, Rutherford, McFarland)
• Survey of HIV seroprevalence, markers for hepatitis and syphilis, and asessment of correlated risk behaviors in young women residing in three health regions in Vitoria, Brazil (Espinosa, Page-Shafer)

Eastern Europe
      Croatia

• Prevalence of risk sexual behavior among HIV infected patients under medical care in Croatia (Zekan, Novotny)

Global

• Cochrane Collaborative Review Groups on HIV Infection and AIDS (Rutherford)
• Multisite HIV Collaborative Intervention Trial – Community Leaders (Coates, Caceres)