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| ROBERT B STEPHENSONSummaryAffiliation: Emory University Country: USA Publications
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District-level religious composition and adoption of sterilization in IndiaRob Stephenson
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Health Popul Nutr 24:100-6. 2006....
The demographic profile of sero-discordant couples enrolled in clinical research in Rwanda and ZambiaR Stephenson
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, US
AIDS Care 20:395-405. 2008..The profiles of sero-discordant couples highlight several potential intervention points, and call for attention to be focused towards prevention efforts aimed at young women and their male partners...
Attitudes Toward Couples-Based HIV Counseling and Testing Among MSM in Cape Town, South AfricaRob Stephenson
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, 7025, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
AIDS Behav 17:43-50. 2013..These results suggest CVCT would be highly welcomed and could work to fill the significant lack of services available and accessible to MSM couples in Cape Town...- Physical domestic violence and subsequent contraceptive adoption among women in rural IndiaRob Stephenson
1Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
J Interpers Violence 28:1020-39. 2013..The results point to the need to include domestic violence screening and referral services into family planning services... - Constructs of power and equity and their association with contraceptive use among men and women in rural Ethiopia and KenyaRob Stephenson
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory, Atlanta, GA, USA
Glob Public Health 7:618-34. 2012..However, further work with larger sample sizes is needed to confirm these findings, and to examine the extent to which these scales can be applied to other social and cultural contexts... - High levels of acceptability of couples-based HIV testing among MSM in South AfricaRob Stephenson
Hubert Department of Global Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
AIDS Care 24:529-35. 2012..Future studies should survey a more heterogeneous population of MSM, explore the complex nature of same-sex male relationships, and why respondents would or would not use these HIV testing services... - Promotion of couples' voluntary counselling and testing for HIV through influential networks in two African capital citiesSusan Allen
The Rwanda Zambia HIV Research Group, 1520 Clifton Road, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
BMC Public Health 7:349. 2007..Couples' Voluntary Counselling and Testing (CVCT) is an effective prevention strategy for this group. We present our experience with a community-based program for the promotion of CVCT in Kigali, Rwanda and Lusaka, Zambia... - Domestic violence, contraceptive use, and unwanted pregnancy in rural IndiaRob Stephenson
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Stud Fam Plann 39:177-86. 2008..The need to improve the measurement of pregnancy intendedness is clear, and a move toward using prospective measures as the standard is necessary... - Community influences on young people's sexual behavior in 3 African countriesRob Stephenson
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Public Health 99:102-9. 2009..I examined the role of community-level factors in the reporting of risky sexual behaviors among young people aged 15 to 24 years in 3 African countries with varying HIV prevalence rates... - A community perspective on young people's knowledge of HIV/AIDS in three African countriesRob Stephenson
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
AIDS Care 21:378-83. 2009.... - Community factors shaping HIV-related stigma among young people in three African countriesRob Stephenson
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
AIDS Care 21:403-10. 2009..Behavioral change interventions must address HIV-related stigma in order to encourage behavior change, and must take into account the social, economic and cultural environments in which young people exist... - Community-level gender equity and extramarital sexual risk-taking among married men in eight African countriesRob Stephenson
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Int Perspect Sex Reprod Health 36:178-88. 2010..However, the ways in which aspects of community environments-particularly those related to gender equity-shape men's extramarital sexual risk-taking are not well understood... - The influence of informed consent content on study participants' contraceptive knowledge and concernsRob Stephenson
Hubert Department of Global Health, School of Medicine, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Stud Fam Plann 41:217-24. 2010.... - Attitudes towards couples-based HIV testing among MSM in three US citiesRob Stephenson
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, 1518 Clifton Road NE, 722, Emory, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
AIDS Behav 15:S80-7. 2011..Our results suggest that there may be a demand for CVCT among MSM in the United States, but some modifications to the existing African CVCT protocol may be needed... - A randomized controlled trial to promote long-term contraceptive use among HIV-serodiscordant and concordant positive couples in ZambiaRob Stephenson
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 20:567-74. 2011.... - Community and health facility influences on contraceptive method choice in the Eastern Cape, South AfricaRob Stephenson
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Int Fam Plan Perspect 34:62-70. 2008..Although a growing number of studies have examined how community factors influence contraceptive use, few have explored how such factors affect method choice... - Contextual influences on the use of health facilities for childbirth in AfricaRob Stephenson
Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Public Health 96:84-93. 2006..Previous studies of maternal health-seeking behavior focused on individual- and household-level factors. We examined community-level influences on the decision to deliver a child in a health facility across 6 African countries... - Domestic violence and symptoms of gynecologic morbidity among women in North IndiaRob Stephenson
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Int Fam Plan Perspect 32:201-8. 2006.... - Domestic violence and contraceptive adoption in Uttar Pradesh, IndiaRob Stephenson
Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Stud Fam Plann 37:75-86. 2006.... - The influence of motivational messages on future planning behaviors among HIV concordant positive and discordant couples in Lusaka, ZambiaR Stephenson
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
AIDS Care 20:150-60. 2008.... - Contextual influences on contraceptive use in the Eastern Cape, South AfricaRob Stephenson
Hubert Department of Global Health, 722, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Health Place 14:841-52. 2008..The residual variation in contraceptive use highlights the deficits that exist in current datasets for capturing community influences on contraceptive behavior... - The impact of project closure on HIV incidence and mortality in a cohort of couples in Lusaka, ZambiaR Stephenson
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, US
AIDS Care 20:683-91. 2008..Research projects should make transition plans and budget for mechanisms to reduce the negative impact on participants of project closures... - Contextual influences on modern contraceptive use in sub-Saharan AfricaRob Stephenson
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Public Health 97:1233-40. 2007..We examined the role of community-level factors in explaining geographic variations in modern contraceptive use in 6 African countries... - Domestic violence and contraceptive use in a rural Indian villageLyndsey Wilson-Williams
Emory University, GA, USA
Violence Against Women 14:1181-98. 2008..Although women's ability to make autonomous decisions is shown to be limited, the study explores covert strategies used to avoid pregnancy, which also tend to increase women's risk of experiencing domestic violence... - Knowledge, use, and concerns about contraceptive methods among sero-discordant couples in Rwanda and ZambiaKristina Grabbe
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 18:1449-56. 2009.... - The relationship between alcohol consumption and unprotected sex among known HIV-discordant couples in Rwanda and ZambiaMatthew E Coldiron
Rwanda Zambia HIV Research Group, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
AIDS Behav 12:594-603. 2008..Counseling about alcohol use should be part of HIV testing and counseling programs, particularly among those found to be HIV-positive... - New heterosexually transmitted HIV infections in married or cohabiting couples in urban Zambia and Rwanda: an analysis of survey and clinical dataKristin L Dunkle
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education and Emory Center for AIDS Research, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Lancet 371:2183-91. 2008..We aimed to estimate the proportion of heterosexual transmission of HIV which occurs within married or cohabiting couples in urban Zambia and Rwanda each year... - Diabetes prevalence by length of residence among US immigrantsReena Oza-Frank
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, NE, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
J Immigr Minor Health 13:1-8. 2011..Diabetes prevalence reaches a plateau at 10+ years of residence and diabetes prevention efforts should, therefore, start soon after migration... - Maternal behavior and experience, care access, and agency as determinants of child diarrhea in BoliviaBethany Caruso
Hubert Department of Global Health, Center for Global Safe Water, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Rev Panam Salud Publica 28:429-39. 2010..Because a child's world is predominantly controlled by and experienced through his or her mother, this investigation aims to understand what maternal dimensions may determine child diarrhea... - Pregnancy, hormonal contraceptive use, and HIV-related death in RwandaSusan Allen
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 16:1017-27. 2007..Few studies have examined the influence of pregnancy and hormonal contraception on HIV-related deaths in African women. Rwanda is a country with high fertility, high HIV prevalence, and frequent use of hormonal contraception in urban areas... - Development and validation of HIV-related dyadic measures for men who have sex with menLaura F Salazar
Institute of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302 3995, USA
J Sex Res 50:164-77. 2013..The results indicate that these dyadic scales are psychometrically sound and can be used in future HIV prevention research and practice with men who have sex with men couples... - Child maltreatment among school children in the Kurdistan Province, IranPayam Sheikhattari
Hubert Department of Global Health, The Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE #722, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Child Abuse Negl 30:231-45. 2006....
Research Grants
- Community Influences on Young People's HIV/AIDS Knowledge, Attitudes & PracticesRobert Stephenson; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Community factors shaping the sexual behavior of malesRobert Stephenson; Fiscal Year: 2007....