Publications by authors named "I Bassett"
Introduction: Young women are disproportionately affected by HIV in South Africa and have a high incidence of unintended pregnancies. Access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, including HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), contraception and screening for seally transmitted infections (STIs), remains limited in South Africa, in part due to inadequate infrastructure and individual barriers to care. Integrated, community-based SRH services have the potential to overcome barriers to clinic-based care for women at risk of HIV, unintended pregnancy and STIs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSouth Africa's Central Chronic Medicine Dispensing and Distribution (CCMDD) program provides community-based medication delivery for clinically stable people with HIV (PWH) on antiretroviral therapy (ART). To evaluate CCMDD implementation, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 60 PWH enrolled in CCMDD for at least 12 months. In a directed content analysis based on the Practical, Robust Implementation and Sustainability Model (PRISM) implementation science framework, key themes were compared with qualitative data collected from PWH enrolling in CCMDD at an earlier time-point.
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- Researchers developed an advanced algorithm for accurately identifying patients with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) using data from over 295,000 patients across various health facilities in Massachusetts.
- The new phenotyping algorithm enhances precision in estimating the prevalence of PASC and reduces demographic bias, identifying over 24,000 patients with an accuracy of 79.9%.
- This method paves the way for deeper studies into the complexities of PASC by providing reliable patient cohorts, surpassing limitations found in previous studies.
Objective: To understand how Long COVID is impacting the health and social conditions of the Black and Latinx communities.
Background: Emerging research on Long COVID has identified three distinct characteristics, including multi-organ damage, persistent symptoms, and post-hospitalization complications. Given Black and Latinx communities experienced significantly higher COVID rates in the first phase of the pandemic they may be disproportionately impacted by Long COVID.