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Laura K Beres

- Verified email at jhu.edu - Cited by 1224

Laura Beres

- Verified email at uwo.ca - Cited by 731

Selfie consents, remote rapport, and Zoom debriefings: collecting qualitative data amid a pandemic in four resource-constrained settings

MDC Reñosa, C Mwamba, A Meghani, NS West… - BMJ global …, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
In-person interactions have traditionally been the gold standard for qualitative data
collection. The COVID-19 pandemic required researchers to consider if remote data …

Integration of family planning services into HIV care and treatment services: a systematic review

SA Haberlen, M Narasimhan, LK Beres… - Studies in family …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Evidence on the feasibility, effectiveness, and cost‐effectiveness of integrating family
planning (FP) and HIV services has grown significantly since the 2004 Glion Call to Action …

[HTML][HTML] Interventions to address unequal gender and power relations and improve self-efficacy and empowerment for sexual and reproductive health decision-making …

JL Robinson, M Narasimhan, A Amin, S Morse… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Many women living with HIV experience gendered power inequalities,
particularly in their intimate relationships, that prevent them from achieving optimal sexual …

[BOOK][B] Innovations in narrative therapy: Connecting practice, training, and research

J Duvall, L Béres - 2011 - books.google.com
Presenting a compelling evidence base for narrative therapy. Narrative therapy introduces
the idea that our lives are made up of multiple events that can be strung together in many …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding preferences for HIV care and treatment in Zambia: evidence from a discrete choice experiment among patients who have been lost to follow-up

A Zanolini, K Sikombe, I Sikazwe, I Eshun-Wilson… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background In public health HIV treatment programs in Africa, long-term retention remains a
challenge. A number of improvement strategies exist (eg, bring services closer to home …

[HTML][HTML] Differentiated care preferences of stable patients on antiretroviral therapy in Zambia: a discrete choice experiment

I Eshun-Wilson… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Background: Although differentiated service delivery (DSD) models for stable patients on
antiretroviral therapy (ART) offer a range of health systems innovations, their comparative …

[HTML][HTML] Human-centered design lessons for implementation science: improving the implementation of a patient-centered care intervention

LK Beres, S Simbeza, CB Holmes… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Background: Evidence-based HIV interventions often fail to reach anticipated impact due to
insufficient utilization in real-world health systems. Human-centered design (HCD) …

[HTML][HTML] Estimated mortality on HIV treatment among active patients and patients lost to follow-up in 4 provinces of Zambia: findings from a multistage sampling-based …

CB Holmes, I Sikazwe, K Sikombe… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background Survival represents the single most important indicator of successful HIV
treatment. Routine monitoring fails to capture most deaths. As a result, both regional …

[HTML][HTML] Retention and viral suppression in a cohort of HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy in Zambia: Regionally representative estimates using a multistage …

I Sikazwe, I Eshun-Wilson, K Sikombe, N Czaicki… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Although the success of HIV treatment programs depends on retention and viral
suppression, routine program monitoring of these outcomes may be incomplete. We used …

Effects of implementing universal and rapid HIV treatment on initiation of antiretroviral therapy and retention in care in Zambia: a natural experiment using regression …

A Mody, I Sikazwe, AS Namwase, MW Mwanza… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Universal testing and treatment (UTT) for all people living with HIV has only
been assessed under experimental conditions in cluster-randomised trials. The public …