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Flies Without Borders: Lessons from Chennai on improving India’s municipal public health services
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Monica Das Gupta, University of Maryland, et al. // Keywords: Public health, Sanitation, Urban, Local government, India, Governance, Devolution; 2017-005
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Florencia Torche, Stanford University
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Infant Health: A Population-Level Analysis
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For Young Women in Sub-Saharan Africa Addressing Transactional Sex May be Key to Reducing HIV Infections
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Transactional Sex and HIV Risk: From Analysis to Action
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Francesco Billari, Bocconi University
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Demography: Fast and Slow
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Frauke Kreuter featured in The Baltimore Sun on New Data Collection on COVID-19 with Facebook
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Faculty at the University of Maryland have been working with Facebook to design a worldwide survey aimed at collecting coronavirus data during the global pandemic.
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Gaming in Air Pollution Data? Lessons from China
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Genetic Clustering Analysis for HIV Infection among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Nigeria
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Background: The HIV epidemic continues to grow among MSM in countries across sub-Saharan Africa including Nigeria . To inform prevention efforts, we used a phylogenetic cluster method to characterize HIV genetic clusters and factors associated with cluster formation among MSM living with HIV in Nigeria . Methods: We analyzed HIV -1 pol sequences from 417 MSM living with HIV enrolled in the TRUST/RV368 cohort between 2013 and 2017 in Abuja and Lagos, Nigeria . A genetically linked cluster was defined among participants whose sequences had pairwise genetic distance of 1.5% or less. Binary and multinomial logistic regressions were used to estimate adjusted odds ratios (AORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for factors associated with HIV genetic cluster membership and size. Results: Among 417 MSM living with HIV , 153 (36.7%) were genetically linked. Participants with higher viral load (AOR = 1.72 95% CI: 1.04–2.86), no female partners (AOR = 3.66; 95% CI: 1.97–6.08), and self-identified as male sex (compared with self-identified as bigender) (AOR = 3.42; 95% CI: 1.08–10.78) had higher odds of being in a genetic cluster. Compared with unlinked participants, MSM who had high school education (AOR = 23.84; 95% CI: 2.66–213.49), were employed (AOR = 3.41; 95% CI: 1.89–10.70), had bacterial sexually transmitted infections (AOR = 3.98; 95% CI: 0.89–17.22) and were not taking antiretroviral therapy (AOR = 6.61; 95% CI: 2.25–19.37) had higher odds of being in a large cluster (size > 4). Conclusion: Comprehensive HIV prevention packages should include behavioral and biological components, including early diagnosis and treatment of both HIV and bacterial sexually transmitted infections to optimally reduce the risk of HIV transmission and acquisition.
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Global Perspectives on How Families Shape Children's Outcomes
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Global Trends of Mask Usage in 19 Million Adults
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Faculty Associate Frauke Kreuter and colleagues are using large scale data gathered on Facebook to get a sense of public understanding about mask-wearing
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Gneisha Dinwiddie Investigates Links Between Race, Lifelong Stress, and Cardiovascular Disease
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Ongoing social and economic stress leads to racial and ethnic disparities in cardiovascular disease outcomes
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