December Monthly Update

 

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Happy 2023 New Year! This past year has flown by and has been one of transition at RTI and reflection within our groups on what is most important with our projects to ensure impact in addressing gender inequality. This December, the xHIV team here at RTI hosted an event in honor of World HIV Day (see below). I also had the opportunity to network with phenomenal, inspiring, and passionate women who I have the honor of being listed alongside at a luncheon with Forbes 50/50. It is invigorating to be around others who share a commitment to make a difference in reaching those most in need. This awesome network is just the beginning of even more global collaborations.
I hope that you and your family, or friends who are family have had a pause to enjoy each other, and wishing you joy, health and more peace in the world.

Happy New Year,
Wendee
she/her/hers

RTI Gender-related December Publications

  • Anthony MS, Zhou X, Schoendorf J, Reed SD, Getahun D, Armstrong MA, Gatz J, Peipert JF, Raine-Bennett T, Fassett MJ, Saltus CW, Ritchey ME, Ichikawa L, Shi JM, Alabaster A, Wahdan Y, Wang J, Xie F, Merchant M, Hunter S, Chiu VY, Postlethwaite D, Rothman KJ, Im TM, Chillemi G, Takhar HS, Asiimwe A, Pisa F. Demographic, reproductive, and medical risk factors for intrauterine device expulsion. Obstet Gynecol. 2022 Dec 1;140(6):1017-1030. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000005000.
  • Bouey NJ, Saha S, Wilson-Costello DE, Rysavy MA, Walsh M, Wyckoff MH, Hibbs AM. Delayed-interval delivery in multiple gestation pregnancies: neonatal mortality, morbidity, and development. J Perinatol. 2022 Dec;42(12):1607-1614. doi: 10.1038/s41372-022-01462-x.
  • Brumbaugh JE, Bell EF, Do BT, Greenberg RG, Stoll BJ, DeMauro SB, Harmon HM, Hintz SR, Das A, Puopolo KM; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network. Incidence of and neurodevelopmental outcomes after late-onset meningitis among children born extremely preterm. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Dec 1;5(12):e2245826. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.45826.
  • Drabble LA, Mericle AA, Munroe C, Cerezo A, Karriker-Jaffe KJ, Hughes TL, Trocki KF. Examining the differential protective effects of women's spirituality and religiosity on alcohol and marijuana use by sexual identity. Addict Behav Rep. 2022 Aug 13;16:100450. doi: 10.1016/j.abrep.2022.100450.
  • Duhart Clarke SE, Megerian CE, Suen LW, Wenger LD, Lambdin BH, Davidson PJ, Kral AH. Prevalence and factors associated with neck injection among people who inject drugs in San Francisco, California. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2022 Dec 1;241:109686. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109686.
  • Egbe TI, Omollo OD, Wesonga JO, Bair EF, Chakrabarti A, Putt ME, Celum CL, Camlin CS, Napierala S, Agot K, Thirumurthy H. A savings intervention to reduce men's engagement in HIV risk behaviors: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2022 Dec 16;23(1):1018. doi: 10.1186/s13063-022-06927-0.
  • Ehlers CL, Yehuda R, Gilder DA, Bernert R, Karriker-Jaffe KJ. Trauma, historical trauma, PTSD and suicide in an American Indian community sample. J Psychiatr Res. 2022 Dec;156:214-220. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.10.012.
  • Flax VL, Fagbemi M, Schnefke CH, Kawu AA, Edwards S, Unangst J, Bose S. Impacts of a social and behavior change communication program implemented at scale on infant and young feeding practices in Nigeria: Results of a cluster-randomized evaluation. PLoS One. 2022 Dec 8;17(12):e0277137. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277137.
  • Flores AR, Stotzer RL, Meyer IH, Langton LL. Hate crimes against LGBT people: National Crime Victimization Survey, 2017-2019. PLoS One. 2022 Dec 21;17(12):e0279363. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0279363.
  • Goldenberg RL, Saleem S, Billah SM, Kim J, Moore JL, Ghanchi NK, Haque R, Figueroa L, Ayala A, Lokangaka A, Tshefu A, Goudar SS, Kavi A, Sommanar M, Esamai F, Mwenchanya M, Chomba E, Patel A, Das P, Emonyi WI, Edidi S, Deshmukh M, Hossain B, Siraj S, Mazariegos M, Garces AL, Bauserman M, Bose CL, Petri WA Jr, Krebs NF, Derman RJ, Carlo WA, Liechty EA, Hibberd PL, Koso-Thomas M, Peres-da-Silva N, Nolen TL, McClure EM. COVID-19 antibody positivity over time and pregnancy outcomes in seven low-and-middle-income countries: A prospective, observational study of the Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research. BJOG. 2022 Dec 12. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.17366.
  • Kataria I, Jackson-Morris A, Jewell J, Williams D, Bhandari P, Sharma D, Lai J, Jain T, Colozza D. Weight stigma among adolescents in three low- and middle-income countries. J Glob Health. 2022 Dec 16;12:04098. doi: 10.7189/jogh.12.04098.
  • Kataria I, Siddiqui M, Treiman K, Foley S, Anand M, Biswas S, Shastri D, Bhatla N, Radhakrishnan D, Mamidi P, Sankaranarayanan R. Awareness, perceptions, and choices of physicians pertaining to human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in India: A formative research study. Vaccine X. 2022 Oct 15;12:100228. doi: 10.1016/j.jvacx.2022.100228.
  • Laptook AR, Chalak L, Pappas A, Davis A, Sanchez PJ, Van Meurs KP, Oh W, Sommers R, Shankaran S, Hensman AM, Rouse DJ, McDonald S, Das A, Goldberg RN, Ambalavanan N, Gyamfi-Bannerman C, Thom EA, Higgins RD; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network (NRN); Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network. The effects of betamethasone on the amplitude integrated EEG of infants born at 34- or 35-weeks gestation. J Perinatol. 2022 Dec;42(12):1615-1621. doi: 10.1038/s41372-022-01415-4.
  • Lutter CK, Hernández-Cordero S, Grummer-Strawn L, Lara-Mejía V, Lozada-Tequeanes AL. Violations of the international code of marketing of breast-milk substitutes: A multi-country analysis. BMC Public Health. 2022 Dec 13;22(1):2336. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14503-z.
  • Makarem N, Chau K, Miller EC, Gyamfi-Bannerman C, Tous I, Booker W, Catov JM, Haas DM, Grobman WA, Levine LD, McNeil R, Bairey Merz CN, Reddy U, Wapner RJ, Wong MS, Bello NA. Association of a Mediterranean diet pattern with adverse pregnancy outcomes among US women. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Dec 1;5(12):e2248165. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.48165.
  • McClure EM, Silver RM, Kim J, Ahmed I, Kallapur M, Ghanchi N, Nagmoti MB, Dhaded S, Aceituno A, Tikmani SS, Saleem S, Guruprasad G, Goudar SS, Goldenberg RL. Maternal infection and stillbirth: A review. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2022 Dec;35(23):4442-4450. doi: 10.1080/14767058.2020.1852206.
  • Minnis AM, Etima J, Musara P, Browne EN, Mutero P, Kemigisha D, Mgodi NM, Nakabiito C, Shapley-Quinn MK, Stoner MCD, Hartmann M, Macagna N, Piper J, van der Straten A. Couples' preferences for "2 in 1" multipurpose prevention technologies to prevent both HIV and pregnancy: Results of a discrete choice experiment in Uganda and Zimbabwe. AIDS Behav. 2022 Dec;26(12):3848-3861. doi: 10.1007/s10461-022-03713-6.
  • Musara P, Hartmann M, Ryan JH, Reddy K, Ggita J, Mutero P, Macagna N, Taulo F, Mgodi NM, Piper J, van der Straten A. Understanding the role of men in women's use of the vaginal ring and oral PrEP during pregnancy and breastfeeding: multi-stakeholder perspectives. Afr J AIDS Res. 2022 Dec;21(4):354-363. doi: 10.2989/16085906.2022.2138474.
  • Ngongo CJ, Raassen TJIP, Mahendeka M, Lombard L, van Roosmalen J, Temmerman M. Rare causes of genital fistula in nine African countries: a retrospective review. BMC Womens Health. 2022 Dec 6;22(1):497. doi: 10.1186/s12905-022-02050-z.
  • Omollo V, Roche SD, Mogaka F, Odoyo J, Barnabee G, Bukusi EA, Katz AWK, Morton J, Johnson R, Baeten JM, Celum C, O'Malley G. Provider-client rapport in pre-exposure prophylaxis delivery: a qualitative analysis of provider and client experiences of an implementation science project in Kenya. Sex Reprod Health Matters. 2022 Dec;30(1):2095707. doi: 10.1080/26410397.2022.2095707.
  • Pepper JK, Malterud AS, Farrelly MC, Taylor NH, Nonnemaker JM, Petrun Sayers EL. The Impact of social media use and gaming on initiation of smokeless tobacco use among rural male youth. J Adolesc Health. 2022 Dec 16:S1054-139X(22)00696-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.09.025.
  • Reddy SM, Tsujimoto THM, Qaqish BF, Fine JP, Nicholson WK. Pregnancy-related factors may signal additional protection or risk of future cardiovascular diseases. BMC Womens Health. 2022 Dec 17;22(1):528. doi: 10.1186/s12905-022-02125-x.
  • Shaw J, Feeney H, Meunier-Sham J, Hazard K, Plante P, Petricone R. An evaluation of a rapid conversion to teleSANE in response to COVID-19. Am J Community Psychol. 2022 Dec;70(3-4):458-474. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12619.
  • Singal AG, Masica A, Esselink K, Murphy CC, Dever JA, Reczek A, Bensen M, Mack N, Stutts E, Ridenhour JL, Galt E, Brainerd J, Kopplin N, Yekkaluri S, Rubio C, Anderson S, Jan K, Whitworth N, Wagner J, Allen S, Muthukumar AR, Tiro J. Population-based correlates of COVID-19 infection: An analysis from the DFW COVID-19 prevalence study. PLoS One. 2022 Dec 1;17(12):e0278335. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278335.
  • Smith LH, García-Albéniz X, Chan JM, Zhao S, Cowan JE, Broering JM, Cooperberg MR, Carroll PR, Hernán MA. Emulation of a target trial with sustained treatment strategies: an application to prostate cancer using both inverse probability weighting and the g-formula. Eur J Epidemiol. 2022 Dec;37(12):1205-1213. doi: 10.1007/s10654-022-00929-7.
  • Tangka FKL, Subramanian S, Hoover S, Cariou C, Creighton B, Hobbs L, Marzano A, Marcotte A, Norton DD, Kelly-Flis P, Leypoldt M, Larkins T, Poole M, Boehm J. Improving the efficiency of integrated cancer screening delivery across multiple cancers: case studies from Idaho, Rhode Island, and Nebraska. Implement Sci Commun. 2022 Dec 16;3(1):133. doi: 10.1186/s43058-022-00381-4.
  • Triplett NS, Roberts ST, Hartmann M, Wagner D, Reddy KR, Mathebula F, Tolley EE, Baeten JM, Palanee-Phillips T, Montgomery ET. Examining associations between mental health, IPV exposure, HIV risk behaviors, and PrEP use in South African women: An analysis of data from the Charisma Study. AIDS Behav. 2022 Dec 2. doi: 10.1007/s10461-022-03936-7.
  • Workalemahu T, Dalton S, Allshouse A, Carey AZ, Page JM, Blue NR, Thorsten V, Goldenberg RL, Pinar H, Reddy UM, Silver RM. Copy number variants and placental abnormalities in stillborn fetuses: A secondary analysis of the Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network study. BJOG. 2022 Dec;129(13):2125-2131. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.17269.
  • Zangeneh SZ, Wilson EA, Ahluwalia S, Donnell DJ, Chen YQ, Grinsztejn B, Melo MG, Godbole SV, Hosseinipour MC, Taha T, Kumwenda J, McCauley M, Cohen MS, Nielsen-Saines K. Pregnancy rates and clinical outcomes among women living with HIV enrolled in HPTN 052. AIDS Care. 2022 Dec 16:1-9. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2022.2141187.

We update our website regularly with all RTI Gender-related publications under resources. Please let us know if we missed any of yours. 

December Publication Feature

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, it is important to understand the impact that having COVID can have on vulnerable populations. This article examines how COVID-19 antibody positivity rates impact pregnancy outcomes in lower- and middle-income countries and found that the majority of birth and pregnancy outcomes were not associated with COVID-19 antibody positivity. However, the researchers found that post-partum hemorrhage was associated with COVID-19 antibody positivity. Read more here.

Goldenberg RL, Saleem S, Billah SM, Kim J, Moore JL, Ghanchi NK, Haque R, Figueroa L, Ayala A, Lokangaka A, Tshefu A, Goudar SS, Kavi A, Sommanar M, Esamai F, Mwenchanya M, Chomba E, Patel A, Das P, Emonyi WI, Edidi S, Deshmukh M, Hossain B, Siraj S, Mazariegos M, Garces AL, Bauserman M, Bose CL, Petri WA Jr, Krebs NF, Derman RJ, Carlo WA, Liechty EA, Hibberd PL, Koso-Thomas M, Peres-da-Silva N, Nolen TL, McClure EM. COVID-19 antibody positivity over time and pregnancy outcomes in seven low-and-middle-income countries: A prospective, observational study of the Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research. BJOG. 2022 Dec 12. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.17366.

RTI Gender-related December Project Wins

Congratulations to:

  • Brian Burke and team on their win, National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health)-Wave VI ADRD Grant Add-on, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC Chapel Hill)
  • Catie Corbin and team on their win, Honduras Improving Pathways to Education (IPE) (EDC Theft), from USAID Honduras Mission
  • Nazia Salam and team on their win, USAID Guinea Local Health Systems Strengthening Activity (LHSSA), from USAID Guinea Mission
  • Martin Osumba and team on their win, Nigeria HSS to improve HIV PY2 Continuation application, from APIN Public Health Initiatives Ltd.
  • Joel Hampton and team on their win, FITS: Additional Analysis-Added Sugars, Zinc, Rice, Fatty Acids, from the Gerber Products Company

 December Project Feature

The Honduras Improving Pathways to Education (IPE) project from the USAID Honduras Mission seeks to provide safe and reliable educational opportunities for Honduran youth. Congratulations to Catie Corbin and team on their win!

 

 December Event Recap

The RTI International xHIV team hosted an event featuring HIV prevention efforts grounded in community-based research and partnerships. Attendees heard from UNC CFAR Office of Community Engagement Manager Alicia Diggs, and Dr. Che Moshesh and Siyanda Tenza from Wits Reproductive Health and HIV institute in Johannesburg. This event was facilitated by RTI Global Gender Center affiliate Dr. Felicia Browne. 

 Upcoming Events

JUNE 16, 2023
Save the date for the 15th InWomen's Conference in Denver, Colorado! Abstract submissions are open and you can submit here.

 

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