Recent presentations
Drs. Ijeoma Nwabuzor Ogbonnaya and Elizabeth Reed from BRIDGE and collaborators from the University of Ibadan presented at the Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum (SVRI) 2024 October 21-25 in Cape Town, South Africa on the health and wellbeing impacts of intimate partner violence and interventions addressing IPV for adolescents girls and young women in Uganda and Nigeria. Presentations:
1. The role of emotional and economic abuse on HIV Care engagement and treatment among Adolescent Girls and Young Women Living with HIV (AGYWLHIV) in Uganda (poster presentation)
Ijeoma Nwabuzor Ogbonnaya, Molly Nantongo, Jamila K. Stockman, Abel Mwebembezi, Wendee M. Wechsberg, Rose Naigino, Janet Nakigudde, Rhoda K. Wanyenze, Flavio F. Marsiglia, Yunro Chung, Judith A. Hahn, Susan M. Kiene
2. Girls Invest, a mobile-enabled economic empowerment intervention to reduce intimate partner violence among adolescent females in Nigeria: Findings and lessons learned (oral presentation)
Olufunmilayo Fawole, Omowumi Okedare, Mobolaji M. Salawu, Susan M. Kiene, Rebecca Lundgren, Elizabeth Frost, Elizabeth Reed
3. Prevalence and experience of non-partner sexual violence among in-school adolescent girls in low-income communities in Southwestern Nigeria – A cross-sectional survey (oral presentation)
Mobolaji M. Salawu, Omowumi O. Okedare, Elizabeth Frost, Susan M. Kiene, Rebecka Lundgren, Elizabeth Reed, Olufunmilayo I. Fawole
4. Access to menstrual products, economic insecurity, and experiences of gender-based violence among adolescent girls in Ibadan, Nigeria (poster presentation)
Elizabeth Frost, Mobolaji Sawalu, Omowumi Okedare, Olufunmilayo Fawole, Elizabeth Reed
5. Qualitative evaluation of Girls Invest, a mobile-enabled economic empowerment intervention to reduce intimate partner violence among adolescent girls in Southern California, USA (oral presentation)
Elizabeth Reed, Desaree Renaud, Guadalupe X Ayala, Ning Tang, Craig McIntosh, Alexandra Minnis
Drs. Kiene, Ogbonnaya, Miller, and Wynn were four of the 31 presenters at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Workshop: Advances in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Adherence to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis among Alcohol-Using Populations in Bethesda, MD in October. Drs. Kiene, Ogbonnaya, and Miller discussed their newest projects, Kisoboka (the R01 in collaboration with MPI Dr. Matovu), Kisoboka Mukwano (R34, an alcohol, IPV, and HIV care engagement intervention) and Kisoboka Amaka (K01) respectively, and Dr. Wynn presented on her K01 research examining the effect of alcohol on HIV care continuum outcomes in the universal test and treat era.
Upcoming Presentations
We will present two presentations at the 17th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health: Moving Fast and Show-Optimizing the Pace of Implementation on December 10, 2024, in Arlington, Virginia.
Dr. Miller will present: ‘Unlocking Insights of Implementation Success: Using the CFIR to Extrapolate Lessons Learned from a School-Based COVID-19 Testing Program to Inform Broader Public Health Strategies.’ This will be presented within the Prevention and Public Health Implementation in Educational Settings section in which she will share outcomes from Communities Fighting COVID! Returning our Kids Back to School Safely.
Dr. Kiene will present findings from the pilot Kisoboka trial: ‘Context matters: Leveraging pilot implementation data to enhance scale-up of an alcohol reduction and HIV treatment engagement intervention in Uganda.’ within the “Adaptation to Enhance the Appropriateness of Implementation for a Specific Context” session on December 9th.
Dr. Amanda Miller was selected by the San Diego Center For AIDS Research (CFAR) as the early-stage investigator (ESI) to attend and represent the SD CFAR at the National CFAR Scientific Symposium in NYC in October, 2024. She will share some of our group’s work on the Kisoboka Intervention.
New grants and awards
Dr. Amanda Miller was awarded an NIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award (K01AA031208). This grant will support her faculty appointment and research over the next 5 years. Her research under this award will focus on adapting an intervention (Kisoboka, “it is possible”) that integrates principles of behavioral economics and motivational interviewing to reduce alcohol use and improve ART adherence for us among men living with HIV who have pregnant serodiscordant partners in Uganda.
Family Health = Family Wealth (R01HD113806) – Drs. Kiene, Sileo, and Muhumuza
Kisoboka (R01 from NIAAA) – Drs. Kiene and Matovu
Kayungirizi/Connecting Men to PrEP (R34 from NIMH) – Drs. Kiene and Buregyeya
Recent publications
Sileo, K.M., Muhumuza, C., Tuhebwe, D., Muñoz, S., Wanyenze, R.K., Kershaw, T.S., Sekamatte, S., Lule, H., Kiene, S.M. “The burden is upon your shoulders to feed and take care of your children, not religion or culture”: qualitative evaluation of participatory community dialogues to promote family planning’s holistic benefits and reshape community norms on family success in rural Uganda. Contracept Reprod Med 9, 28 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40834-024-00290-y
Wynn, A., Sileo, K.M., Schmarje Crockett, K., Naigino, R., Ediau, M., Menzies, N.A., Kalichman, S.C., Wanyenze, R.K., Martin, N.K., Kiene, S.M. Associations between alcohol, antiretroviral therapy use, and viral load suppression among people living with HIV in rural Central Uganda. AIDS Behav 28, 2205–2215 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-024-04299-x
Wynn, A., Sileo, K. M., Schmarje Crockett, K., Naigino, R., Ediau, M., Wanyenze, R. K., Kiwanuka, N., Martin, N. K., & Kiene, S. M. (2024). Prevalence of alcohol use by gender and HIV status in rural Uganda. PLOS ONE, 19(7), e0303885. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303885
Sileo, K. M., Muhumuza, C., Wanyenze, R. K., Kershaw, T. S., Ellerbe, B., Muñoz, S., Sekamatte, S., Lule, H., & Kiene, S. M. (2024). Effects of a community-based, multi-level family planning intervention on theoretically grounded intermediate outcomes for couples in rural Uganda: Results from a mixed methods pilot evaluation. British Journal of Health Psychology, 29 (3), 551-575, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12713
Wagaba MT, Musoke D, Opio C, Bagonza A, Aweko J, Nakitende H, Mulyowa A, Ediau M, Waiswa P, Ekirapa-Kiracho E. Do cash or digital payment modalities affect community health worker performance? – a case study of a remote refugee settlement in Western Uganda. Glob Health Action. 2024 Dec 31;17(1):2375867. doi: 10.1080/16549716.2024.2375867. Epub 2024 Aug 23. PMID: 39175402; PMCID: PMC11346319.
Kembabazi V, Tigaiza A, Opio C, Aweko J, Nakafeero M, Makumbi FE, Ediau M, Kiracho EE, Tusubira AK, Waiswa P. Adoptability of digital payments for community health workers in peri-urban Uganda: A case study of Wakiso district. PLoS One. 2024 Aug 15;19(8):e0308322. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0308322. PMID: 39146294; PMCID: PMC11326584.
Nyemgah CA, Ranganathan M, Nabukalu D, Stöckl H. Prevalence and severity of physical intimate partner violence during pregnancy among adolescents in eight sub-Saharan Africa countries: A cross-sectional study. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2024 Jul 16;4(7):e0002638. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002638. PMID: 39012924; PMCID: PMC11251595.
Adjimi Nyemgah C, Ranganathan M, Stöckl H. Intimate partner violence during pregnancy against adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review. Inj Prev. 2024 May 20;30(3):177-182. doi: 10.1136/ip-2023-044985. PMID: 38195654; PMCID: PMC11137446.
Building Research Initiatives Advancing Global Health Equity (BRIDGE) at San Diego State University
