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Intimate partner violence associated with poor health outcomes in U.S. South Asian womenElizabeth J Himelfarb Hurwitz
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Massachusetts 02118, USA
J Immigr Minor Health 8:251-61. 2006..Experiences of IPV are related to increased poor health among South Asian women. This elevated risk demands intervention. Healthcare providers should be trained to screen and refer South Asian patients for partner violence...- The relationship between sexual abuse and sexual risk among high school students: findings from the 1997 Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior SurveyA Raj
Boston University School of Public Health, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Matern Child Health J 4:125-34. 2000..To assess whether adolescents with a history of sexual abuse were more likely than those with no such history to engage in sexual risk behaviors... - Association between adolescent marriage and marital violence among young adult women in IndiaAnita Raj
Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Int J Gynaecol Obstet 110:35-9. 2010..To assess whether a history of adolescent marriage (<18 years) places women in young adulthood in India at increased risk of physical or sexual marital violence... - Sex trade, sexual risk, and nondisclosure of HIV serostatus: findings from HIV-infected persons with a history of alcohol problemsAnita Raj
Department of Social Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA
AIDS Behav 10:149-57. 2006..Programs that emphasize serostatus disclosure and/or consistent condom use in the context of sex trade and with multiple sexual partners will be particularly important... - Violence against women associated with arrests for sex trade but not drug chargesAnita Raj
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany St, T2W, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Int J Law Psychiatry 29:204-11. 2006..Interventions for incarcerated women are needed to consider and address history of victimization from gender-based violence and its relation to women's historic and future sex trade involvement... - Prevalence of child marriage and its effect on fertility and fertility-control outcomes of young women in India: a cross-sectional, observational studyAnita Raj
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Lancet 373:1883-9. 2009..We assessed the prevalence of child marriage-ie, before 18 years of age-in young adult women in India, and the associations between child marriage and women's fertility and fertility-control outcomes... - Associations between alcohol, heroin, and cocaine use and high risk sexual behaviors among detoxification patientsAnita Raj
Department of Social Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 33:169-78. 2007..3, 95% CI = 1.1-4.8) and selling sex (OR(adj) = 2.6, 95% CI = 1.3-5.3). Alcohol and heroin were not significantly associated with sexual activity, high risk sexual behaviors or STD in this sample... - The effect of maternal child marriage on morbidity and mortality of children under 5 in India: cross sectional study of a nationally representative sampleAnita Raj
Boston University of Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston, MA 02118, USA
BMJ 340:b4258. 2010..Further research should examine how early marriage affects food distribution and access for children in India... - Correlates of any condom use among Russian narcology patients reporting recent unprotected sexAnita Raj
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany Street Talbot Building, Boston, MA 02118, USA
AIDS Behav 13:310-7. 2009..4, 95% CI = 1.1-5.1) in the past 6 months had significantly higher odds of reporting any condom use in this same timeframe. HIV/STI and substance use were not associated with increased odds of condom use... - Intimate partner violence perpetration, risky sexual behavior, and STI/HIV diagnosis among heterosexual African American menAnita Raj
Social Behavioral Sciences Department, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Am J Mens Health 2:291-5. 2008..IPV perpetration is pervasive among heterosexually at-risk African American men presenting for clinical care, and those perpetrating IPV are at heightened risk for STI/HIV... - South Asian victims of intimate partner violence more likely than non-victims to report sexual health concernsAnita Raj
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
J Immigr Health 7:85-91. 2005..Study findings demonstrate the need for increased gynecologic health outreach to abused South Asian women in the U.S... - Transactional sex risk and STI among HIV-infected female sex workers and HIV-infected male clients of FSWs in IndiaAnita Raj
Boston University School of Public Health, Community Health Sciences, MA, USA
AIDS Care 23:1374-81. 2011..e., greater number of partners) and STI (i.e., unprotected sex) only held true for males. Further research is needed to guide an understanding of sex risk and STI among HIV-infected FSWs in India... - Contexts of condom use and non-condom use among young adolescent male perpetrators of dating violenceA Raj
Boston University School of Public Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston, MA 02118, USA
AIDS Care 19:970-3. 2007..Sexual health interventions integrated with dating violence and sexual assault prevention efforts and tailored to adolescents are needed... - The associations of binge alcohol use with HIV/STI risk and diagnosis among heterosexual African American menAnita Raj
Social Behavioral Sciences Department, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 101:101-6. 2009.... - Is a general women's health promotion program as effective as an HIV-intensive prevention program in reducing HIV risk among Hispanic women?A Raj
Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany Street, T2W, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Public Health Rep 116:599-607. 2001.... - Immigrant South Asian women at greater risk for injury from intimate partner violenceAnita Raj
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Am J Public Health 93:435-7. 2003 - Abused women report greater male partner risk and gender-based risk for HIV: findings from a community-based study with Hispanic womenA Raj
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, MA 02118, USA
AIDS Care 16:519-29. 2004..58, 95% CI=1.57-13.32). Results support the need for emphasis on IPV prevention within HIV prevention programmes and demonstrate the need for HIV prevention efforts directed at men with a history of IPV perpetration... - Perpetration of intimate partner violence associated with sexual risk behaviors among young adult menAnita Raj
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Mass 02118, USA
Am J Public Health 96:1873-8. 2006..We assessed the association between intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration and sexual risk behaviors and fatherhood (having fathered children) among young men... - Abuse from in-laws during pregnancy and post-partum: qualitative and quantitative findings from low-income mothers of infants in Mumbai, IndiaAnita Raj
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, 801 Mass Ave, Crosstown Building 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Matern Child Health J 15:700-12. 2011..Programs and interventions that screen and address IPV in pregnant and post-partum populations in India should be developed to include consideration of in-laws... - Binge drinking and unsafe sex: a study of narcology hospital patients from St. Petersburg, RussiaA Raj
Department of Social Behavioral Sciences, Boston University of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Subst Abus 30:213-22. 2009..01, ns). Findings document substantial HIV/STD risk and prevalence among Russian narcology patients, but no link between binge drinking and unprotected sex in this population, possibly due to very low rates of condom use generally... - Intimate partner violence and sexually transmitted disease symptoms in a national sample of married Bangladeshi womenM R Decker
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Boston, USA
Int J Gynaecol Obstet 100:18-23. 2008..To assess associations of intimate partner violence (IPV) with women's sexually transmitted disease (STD) symptoms, and to clarify biological and behavioral mechanisms underpinning heightened STD rates among abused women... - Dating violence against adolescent girls and associated substance use, unhealthy weight control, sexual risk behavior, pregnancy, and suicidalityJ G Silverman
Division of Public Health Practice, Harvard School of Public Health, 1552 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02120, USA
JAMA 286:572-9. 2001..However, no representative epidemiologic studies of lifetime prevalence of dating violence among adolescents have been conducted... - Intimate partner violence and unwanted pregnancy, miscarriage, induced abortion, and stillbirth among a national sample of Bangladeshi womenJ G Silverman
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
BJOG 114:1246-52. 2007.... - Immigration policies increase south Asian immigrant women's vulnerability to intimate partner violenceAnita Raj
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, USA
J Am Med Womens Assoc 60:26-32. 2005..Such legal barriers may constitute human rights violations and should be reformed to protect immigrant battered women and their children... - Intimate partner violence functions as both a risk marker and risk factor for women's HIV infection: findings from Indian husband-wife dyadsMichele R Decker
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 51:593-600. 2009.... - Racial/ethnic disparities in the HIV and substance abuse epidemics: communities responding to the needH Amaro
Bouve College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Public Health Rep 116:434-48. 2001.... - Intimate partner violence perpetration, standard and gendered STI/HIV risk behaviour, and STI/HIV diagnosis among a clinic-based sample of menM R Decker
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Sex Transm Infect 85:555-60. 2009..To date, little empirical data exist to characterise the nature of men's sexual risk as it relates to both their violence perpetration, and STI/HIV infection... - Immigration-based disparities in adolescent girls' vulnerability to dating violenceJay G Silverman
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Society, Human Development and Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
Matern Child Health J 11:37-43. 2007..The present study assessed disparities in experiences of physical and sexual dating violence based on immigrant status and language spoken at home among a large representative sample of adolescent girls... - Indian men's use of commercial sex workers: prevalence, condom use, and related gender attitudesMichele R Decker
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 53:240-6. 2010..The current study assesses the prevalence of past year CSW contact, condom nonuse therein, and associations with demographic characteristics and gendered attitudes among a national sample of Indian men... - Experiences of sex trafficking victims in Mumbai, IndiaJ G Silverman
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Gynaecol Obstet 97:221-6. 2007..To explore mechanisms and contexts related to sex trafficking victimization among South Asian women and girls rescued from brothels in Mumbai, India... - Dating violence and associated sexual risk and pregnancy among adolescent girls in the United StatesJay G Silverman
Division of Public Health Practice, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Pediatrics 114:e220-5. 2004.... - Intimate partner violence against South Asian women in greater BostonAnita Raj
Department of Social, Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, USA
J Am Med Womens Assoc 57:111-4. 2002..Their knowledge of available services is limited, and victim-blaming attitudes are not uncommon. Culturally tailored domestic violence services and IPV education are needed for this underserved population... - Male perpetration of intimate partner violence and involvement in abortions and abortion-related conflictJay G Silverman
Department of Society, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 100:1415-7. 2010.... - Intimate partner violence and HIV infection among married Indian womenJay G Silverman
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
JAMA 300:703-10. 2008..Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been described as being associated with heterosexual transmission of HIV to women in India and elsewhere... - Social and environmental contexts of adolescent and young adult male perpetrators of intimate partner violence: a qualitative studyElizabeth Reed
Department for Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Mens Health 2:260-71. 2008..Efforts to support young males regarding a broad array of concerns should be included in programming to reduce IPV perpetration... - Maternal experiences of intimate partner violence and child morbidity in Bangladesh: evidence from a national Bangladeshi sampleJay G Silverman
Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 163:700-5. 2009..To provide an estimate of the risk of recent acute respiratory tract infection (ARI) and diarrhea among children 5 years and younger based on recent violence against their mothers... - Intimate partner violence victimization prior to and during pregnancy among women residing in 26 U.S. states: associations with maternal and neonatal healthJay G Silverman
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 195:140-8. 2006..To conduct a population-based assessment of associations of intimate partner violence in the year prior to and during pregnancy with maternal and neonatal morbidity... - Violence against wives, sexual risk and sexually transmitted infection among Bangladeshi menJay G Silverman
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Sex Transm Infect 83:211-5. 2007..To assess the relationship between men's reported violence against wives and their sexual risk behaviours and sexual health. Design,.. - HIV prevalence and predictors of infection in sex-trafficked Nepalese girls and womenJay G Silverman
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
JAMA 298:536-42. 2007..Inadequate empirical data exist to characterize this phenomenon and its related health consequences, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection... - Implications of cannabis use and heavy alcohol use on HIV drug risk behaviors in Russian heroin usersAlexander Y Walley
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, 91 E Concord St, Suite 200, Boston, MA 02118, USA
AIDS Behav 12:662-9. 2008..1 points). Because of the central role of risky drug behaviors in the Russian HIV epidemic, it is important to understand how the use of multiple substances, including cannabis and alcohol, impacts risky drug behaviors... - HIV prevalence and predictors among rescued sex-trafficked women and girls in Mumbai, IndiaJay G Silverman
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 43:588-93. 2006..The present study examines the prevalence and predictors of HIV infection among sex-trafficked women and girls rescued from brothels in Mumbai, India... - Sexual violence against adolescent girls: influences of immigration and acculturationMichele R Decker
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Violence Against Women 13:498-513. 2007..Immigrant status conferred risk among adolescent girls aged 15 and younger, Black adolescent girls, and sexually active Hispanic girls. No differences were detected in sexual assault victimization based on acculturation... - Alcohol use and sex risk behaviors among HIV-infected female sex workers (FSWs) and HIV-infected male clients of FSWs in IndiaJeffrey H Samet
Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Boston University School of Medicine Boston Medical Center, 801 Massachusetts Ave, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA 02118, USA
AIDS Behav 14:S74-83. 2010..Such efforts to reduce drinking will be an important dimension to secondary HIV prevention in India... - Masculine gender roles associated with increased sexual risk and intimate partner violence perpetration among young adult menM Christina Santana
Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany St, T2W, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Urban Health 83:575-85. 2006.... - Mitigating risky sexual behaviors among Russian narcology hospital patients: the PREVENT (Partnership to Reduce the Epidemic Via Engagement in Narcology Treatment) randomized controlled trialJeffrey H Samet
Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Clinical Addiction Research and Education CARE Unit, Boston University School of Medicine Boston Medical Center, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Addiction 103:1474-83. 2008..To assess the effectiveness of a sexual risk reduction intervention in the Russian narcology hospital setting... - Prevalence and patterns of sexual assault across the life span among incarcerated womenAnita Raj
Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Violence Against Women 14:528-41. 2008..These findings suggest that the lifetime sexual victimization pattern of incarcerated women differs from that seen in the general population... - Syphilis and hepatitis B Co-infection among HIV-infected, sex-trafficked women and girls, NepalJay G Silverman
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 14:932-4. 2008..Those who were HIV positive were more likely than those who were HIV negative to be infected with syphilis and/or hepatitis B... - Dating violence and sexually transmitted disease/HIV testing and diagnosis among adolescent femalesMichele R Decker
Health and Division of Public Health Practice, Department of Society, Human Development, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Pediatrics 116:e272-6. 2005..The present study assesses associations between dating violence and STD/HIV testing and diagnosis among a representative sample of sexually active adolescent girls... - Sex purchasing and associations with HIV/STI among a clinic-based sample of US menMichele R Decker
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 48:355-9. 2008.... - Intimate partner violence around the time of pregnancy: association with breastfeeding behaviorJay G Silverman
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 15:934-40. 2006..To assess associations of experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) and breastfeeding behaviors among a large, population-based sample of U.S. women... - Social norms and beliefs regarding sexual risk and pregnancy involvement among adolescent males treated for dating violence perpetrationJay G Silverman
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Society, Human Development and Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Urban Health 83:723-35. 2006..Further research focused on the context of male sexual risk and abusive relationship behaviors is needed to inform intervention with young men to promote sexual health and prevent rape, dating violence, and adolescent pregnancy... - Tuberculosis and HIV: a global menace exacerbated via sex traffickingAshwin S Dharmadhikari
Brigham and Women s Hospital, FXB Building, 7th Floor, 651 Huntington Avenue, and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Infect Dis 13:543-6. 2009..We sought to examine the prevalence of TB among repatriated sex trafficked Nepalese girls and women in whom a high HIV prevalence was previously reported... - Driven to a fiery death--the tragedy of self-immolation in AfghanistanAnita Raj
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, USA
N Engl J Med 358:2201-3. 2008 - Substance abuse treatment and risk behaviors among HIV-infected persons with alcohol problemsAnita Palepu
Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St Paul s Hospital, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J Subst Abuse Treat 28:3-9. 2005..Although the opportunity exists to address HIV risk behaviors in the setting of substance abuse treatment, effective institutionalization of this challenging behavior change effort has not yet been realized... - Victims of intimate partner violence more likely to report abuse from in-lawsAnita Raj
Boston University, School of Public Health, MA, USA
Violence Against Women 12:936-49. 2006..g., isolation, social and economic control, and domestic servitude), awareness or support of IPV, and direct physical abuse. Domestic violence interventions with South Asian women must consider abuse from in-laws and IPV experiences... - Migration, sexual exploitation, and women's health: a case report from a community health centerElizabeth Miller
University of California, Davis Medical Center, USA
Violence Against Women 13:486-97. 2007..Health care providers are in a unique position to identify and support U.S. sex trafficking victims; thus, education and training for health care professionals on trafficking is needed... - Substance use during sexual and physical assault in HIV-infected personsCynthia H Chuang
Division of General Internal Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine and Milton S Hershey Medical Center Hershey, PA 17033 0850, USA
Violence Vict 22:216-25. 2007..9, 95% CI 1.7 to 20.6) in adjusted analysis. Of the physically assaulted participants, 66% of victims and 85% of assailants used drugs/alcohol during physical assault; these results did not differ by gender... - History of incarceration and gang involvement are associated with recent sexually transmitted disease/HIV diagnosis in African American menAnita Raj
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 47:131-4. 2008 - Male partner pregnancy-promoting behaviors and adolescent partner violence: findings from a qualitative study with adolescent femalesElizabeth Miller
Center for Reducing Health Disparities, UC Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Ambul Pediatr 7:360-6. 2007..This paper reports on a subset of females who described abusive male partners' explicit pregnancy-promoting behaviors (ie, messages and behaviors that led females to believe their partner was actively trying to impregnate them)... - Heterosexual behavioral maintenance and change following HIV counseling and testingHortensia Amaro
Institute on Urban Health Research, Bouve College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, 360 Huntingdon Avenue, Stearns Center, Suite 503, Boston University, MA 02115, USA
J Health Psychol 10:287-300. 2005..Behaviors with main partners were particularly resistant to change. Predictors of change varied by stage at pre-test. C&T services should tailor approaches and referrals based on stage of change and other client characteristics...
Research Grants
- Gender Equity-Focused, Male-Centered Family Planning for Rural IndiaAnita Raj; Fiscal Year: 2009..In-depth interviews will also be conducted with key informants from the village and public and rural health systems to assess sustainability and institutionalization of the model. ..
- Gender Equity-Focused, Male-Centered Family Planning for Rural IndiaNiranjan Saggurti; Fiscal Year: 2010..In-depth interviews will also be conducted with key informants from the village and public and rural health systems to assess sustainability and institutionalization of the model. ..