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HiFi Lab develops and tests culturally-responsible intervention strategies that can be integrated and targeted to address determinants of HIV infection among African and African diaspora communities. Our research projects employ a range of research traditions, designs and methods including randomized controlled trials, structural equation modeling, ethnography and systematic reviews.

Research Resources

Gu LY, Zhang N, Mayer KH, et al. Autonomy-Supportive Healthcare Climate and HIV-Related Stigma Predict Linkage to HIV Care in Men Who Have Sex With Men in Ghana, West Africa. Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (JIAPAC). January 2021. doi:10.1177/2325958220978113

Abubakari, G. M. R., Dada, D., Nur, J., Turner, D., Otchere, A., Tanis, L. & Nelson, L. E. (2021).
Intersectional stigma and its impact on HIV prevention and care among MSM and WSW in sub-Saharan
African countries: a protocol for a scoping review. BMJ Open, 11(8), e047280.

Abubakari, G.M.R., Turner, Ni, Z., Conserve, D.F., Dada, D., Otchere, A., Amanfoh, Y., Boakye, F.,
Torpey, K., Nelson, L.E., (2021) Community-based interventions as opportunities to increase HIV selftesting and linkage to care among men who have sex with men – lessons from Ghana, West Africa.
Frontiers in Public Health (9)581 DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2021.660256

Abubakari, G.M.R., Turner, D., Nelson, L.E., Odhiambo, AJ, Boakye, F., Manu, A., Torpey, T.,
Wilton L. (2021). An application of the ADAPT-ITT model to an evidence-based behavioral HIV
prevention intervention for men who have sex with men in Ghana. International Health Trends and
Perspectives, 1(1), 1-12

Nelson L, Nyblade, Torpey K., Carmen L, Han-Zhu Q, Adom M., Emma G., Francis B. Patrick A.
Turner D., Abubakari, GMR., Stockson M., David V. (2021) Multi-level Intersectional Stigma
Reduction Intervention to Increase HIV Testing among Men who have Sex with Men in Ghana:
Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial PONE-D-21-31954 (in-press)

Adedotun Ogunbajo, Natalie M. Leblanc, Sameer Kushwaha, Francis Boakye, Samuel Hanson, Martez D.R. Smith & LaRon E. Nelson (2020) Knowledge and Acceptability of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Ghana, AIDS Care, 32:3, 330-336, DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2019.1675858

Abubakari, G.M.R., Nelson, L.E., Ogunbajo, A., Boakye, F, Appiah, P., Odhiambo, A., Sa, T., Zhang,
N., Ngozi, I., Scott, A., Maina, G., Manu, A., & Torpey, K. (2020). Implementation and evaluation of
a culturally grounded group-based HIV prevention programme for men who have sex with men in
Ghana. Global Public Health. DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2020.1832555

Ogunbajo, A., Kershaw, T. S., Kushwaha, S., Boakye, F., Wallace-Atiapah, N. D., & Nelson, L. (2017, November). “She is like a Mother to Me”: Perspectives on patient-provider relationship from Ghanaian men who have sex with me (MSM) living with HIV. In APHA 2017 Annual Meeting & Expo (Nov. 4-Nov. 8). American Public Health Association.


Ogunbajo, A., Kershaw, T., Kushwaha, S. et al. Barriers, Motivators, and Facilitators to Engagement in HIV Care Among HIV-Infected Ghanaian Men Who have Sex with Men (MSM). AIDS Behav 22, 829–839 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-017-1806-6

Geoffrey Maina, Gillian Strudwick, Yasmin Lalani, Francis Boakye, Leo Wilton, LaRon E. Nelson, Characterizing the Structure and Functions of Social Networks of Men Who Have Sex with Men in Ghana, West Africa: Implications for Peer-Based HIV Prevention,
Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, Volume 29, Issue 1,2018, Pages 70-82,

Kushwaha, S., Lalani, Y., Maina, G. et al. “But the moment they find out that you are MSM…”: a qualitative investigation of HIV prevention experiences among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Ghana’s health care system. BMC Public Health 17, 770 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4799-1

Nelson LE, Wilton L, Agyarko-Poku T, Zhang N, Zou Y, Aluoch M, et al. (2015) Predictors of Condom Use among Peer Social Networks of Men Who Have Sex with Men in Ghana, West Africa. PLoS ONE 10(1): e0115504. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115504

Nelson, L.E., Wilton, L., Agyarko-Poku, T., Zhang, N., Aluoch, M., Thach, C.T., Owiredu Hanson, S. and Adu-Sarkodie, Y. (2015), The Association of HIV Stigma and HIV/STD Knowledge With Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Adolescent and Adult Men Who Have Sex With Men in Ghana, West Africa. Res Nurs Health, 38: 194-206. https://doi.org/10.1002/nur.21650

 

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