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| Alexander C TsaiSummaryAffiliation: Harvard University Country: USA Publications
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Directly observed antidepressant medication treatment and HIV outcomes among homeless and marginally housed HIV-positive adults: a randomized controlled trialAlexander C Tsai
Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Am J Public Health 103:308-15. 2013..We assessed whether directly observed fluoxetine treatment reduced depression symptom severity and improved HIV outcomes among homeless and marginally housed HIV-positive adults in San Francisco, California, from 2002 to 2008...- Is food insecurity associated with HIV risk? Cross-sectional evidence from sexually active women in BrazilAlexander C Tsai
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
PLoS Med 9:e1001203. 2012..We used data from a national survey of Brazilian women to estimate the relationship between food insecurity and HIV risk... - Medical evidence of human rights violations against non-Arabic-speaking civilians in Darfur: a cross-sectional studyAlexander C Tsai
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
PLoS Med 9:e1001198. 2012.... - Food insecurity, depression and the modifying role of social support among people living with HIV/AIDS in rural UgandaAlexander C Tsai
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, Harvard University, MA, USA
Soc Sci Med 74:2012-9. 2012..Interventions aimed at improving food security and strengthening instrumental social support may have synergistic beneficial effects on both mental health and HIV outcomes among PLWHA in resource-limited settings... - The social context of food insecurity among persons living with HIV/AIDS in rural UgandaAlexander C Tsai
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Soc Sci Med 73:1717-24. 2011..These findings also indicate that structural interventions to improve social support and/or decrease HIV-related stigma may also improve the food security of PLWHA... 
Proximate context of gender-unequal norms and women's HIV risk in sub-Saharan AfricaAlexander C Tsai
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
AIDS 26:381-6. 2012..To determine whether the proximate context of gender-unequal norms about violence against women undermines women's ability to negotiate condom use in sexual relationships...- Prevalence and correlates of forced sex perpetration and victimization in Botswana and SwazilandAlexander C Tsai
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Am J Public Health 101:1068-74. 2011..We sought to identify correlates of forced sex perpetration among men and victimization among women in Botswana and Swaziland... - No association found between traditional healer use and delayed antiretroviral initiation in rural UgandaRUSSELL H HORWITZ
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
AIDS Behav 17:260-5. 2013..These findings suggest that TH/SC use does not delay initiation of ART... - Food insecurity is associated with morbidity and patterns of healthcare utilization among HIV-infected individuals in a resource-poor settingSheri D Weiser
Division of HIV AIDS, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, 94143, USA
AIDS 26:67-75. 2012..We undertook a longitudinal study in rural Uganda to understand the association of food insecurity with morbidity and patterns of healthcare utilization among HIV-infected individuals enrolled in an antiretroviral therapy program... 
Changes in food insecurity, nutritional status, and physical health status after antiretroviral therapy initiation in rural UgandaSheri D Weiser
Department of Medicine, Division of HIV AIDS, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 61:179-86. 2012..To investigate whether time on antiretroviral therapy (ART) is associated with improvements in food security and nutritional status, and the extent to which associations are mediated by improved physical health status...- A marginal structural model to estimate the causal effect of antidepressant medication treatment on viral suppression among homeless and marginally housed persons with HIVAlexander C Tsai
Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California at San Francisco, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:1282-90. 2010..Application of marginal structural modeling to longitudinal observation data can, under certain assumptions, approximate the findings of a randomized controlled trial... - Evidence for the reliability and validity of the internalized AIDS-related stigma scale in rural UgandaAlexander C Tsai
Center for Global Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Room 1529 E3, 100 Cambridge Street, 15th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA
AIDS Behav 17:427-33. 2013..Taken together, these findings suggest that the Internalized AIDS-Related Stigma Scale may be a useful tool for socio-behavioral HIV research... - Sexual relationship power and depression among HIV-infected women in Rural UgandaAbigail M Hatcher
Division of HIV AIDS, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
PLoS ONE 7:e49821. 2012..Low sexual relationship power also contributes to HIV risk, but there is limited understanding of how it relates to mental health among HIV-infected women... - Sexual relationship power and malnutrition among HIV-positive women in rural UgandaMark J Siedner
Department of Infectious Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 02114, USA
AIDS Behav 16:1542-8. 2012..Targeted interventions to improve intimate partner relationship equality should be explored to improve health status among women living with HIV in rural Africa... - Conceptual framework for understanding the bidirectional links between food insecurity and HIV/AIDSSheri D Weiser
Division of HIV AIDS, San Francisco General Hospital, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 94:1729S-1739S. 2011..More research on the relative importance of each of these pathways is warranted because effective interventions to reduce food insecurity and HIV depend on a rigorous understanding of these multifaceted relationships... - Community-level and individual-level influences of intimate partner violence on birth spacing in sub-Saharan AfricaKristin J Hung
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Obstet Gynecol 119:975-82. 2012..To estimate the extent to which intimate partner violence (IPV), at the levels of the individual and the community, is associated with shortened interbirth intervals among women in sub-Saharan Africa...