Publications by authors named "A Menon-Johansson"
Background: Effectiveness of HIV postexposure prophylaxis (PEPSE) correlates with speed of uptake following HIV exposure. Time to first dose has not improved in the UK for over 10 years. On-demand pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has shown that people can self-start medication for HIV prevention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Partner Notification (PN) is a key public health service to alert the partners of patients diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection and then support these individuals to test. Partner Notification is a challenge to deliver because of the personal nature of this communication and the time it requires to deliver effectively. Digital tools have been developed to support patients to inform their partners; unfortunately, it has not been possible to measure engagement with-and the impact of-these solutions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Men who have sex with men (MSM) experience high rates of gonococcal infection at extragenital (rectal and pharyngeal) anatomic sites, which often are missed without asymptomatic screening and may be important for onward transmission. Implementing an express pathway for asymptomatic MSM seeking routine screening at their clinic may be a cost-effective way to improve extragenital screening by allowing patients to be screened at more anatomic sites through a streamlined, less costly process.
Methods: We modified an agent-based model of anatomic site-specific gonococcal infection in US MSM to assess the cost-effectiveness of an express screening pathway in which all asymptomatic MSM presenting at their clinic were screened at the urogenital, rectal, and pharyngeal sites but forewent a provider consultation and physical examination and self-collected their own samples.