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Resources
The network and its members have developed a number of publications, toolkits, and other resources that further adolescent HIV and implementation science efforts.
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Adolescents in Research Toolkit: the toolkit is an online comprehensive clinical, logical, ethical-legal resource to facilitate the safe and effective involvement of adolescents in the implementation of health and other related research in sub-Saharan Africa.
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AHI(SA)2 Delphi Analysis: The AHI(SA)2 team and AHISA Network colleagues completed a systematic review and modified Delphi analysis of interventions addressing the HIV continuum of care for adolescents in South Africa.
AIDS and Behavior
Supplement on Advancing Implementation Science for Adolescent HIV Prevention and Treatment in High Burden African Countries
This special supplement in
AIDS & Behavior represents the collective learning of AHISA related to implementation science in the context of the adolescent HIV continuum of care from multiple African countries.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Vorkoper, S., Tahlil, K. M., Sam-Agudu, N. A., Tucker, J. D., Livinski, A. A., Fernando, F., & Sturke, R. (2022).
Implementation science for the prevention and treatment of HIV among adolescents and young adults in Sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review. AIDS and Behavior.
- Zanoni, B., Archary, M., Sibaya, T., Ramos, T., Donenberg, G., Shahmanesh, M., Celum, C., Pettifor, A., Bekker, L. G., & Haberer, J. (2022).
Interventions addressing the adolescent HIV continuum of care in South Africa: A systematic review and modified Delphi Analysis. BMJ Open, 12(4).
- Aarons, G. A., Reeder, K., Sam-Agudu, N. A., Vorkoper, S., & Sturke, R. (2021).
Implementation determinants and mechanisms for the prevention and treatment of adolescent HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: Concept mapping of the NIH Fogarty International Center Adolescent HIV Implementation Science Alliance (AHISA) initiative. Implementation Science Communications, 2(1).
- Sturke, R., Vorkoper, S., Bekker, L. G., Ameyan, W., Luo, C., Allison, S., Walker, D., Kapogiannis, B., & Guay, L. (2020).Fostering successful and sustainable collaborations to advance implementation science: The adolescent HIV prevention and treatment implementation science alliance. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 23(S5).
- Mark, D., Geng, E., Vorkoper, S., Essajee, S., Bloch, K., Willis, N., Stewart, B., Bakeera-Kitaka, S., Sugandhi, N., Sturke, R., Achebe, K., Ferguson, B. J., Vicari, M., Luo, C., Putta, N., John-Stewart, G., Guay, L., Mushavi, A., Muhammad, I., & Ross, D. A. (2018).
Making implementation science work for children and adolescents living with HIV. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 78(1).
Other Publications
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Implementation Science for Eliminating HIV Among Adolescents in High-Burden African Countries: Findings and Lessons Learned from the Adolescent HIV Prevention and Treatment Implementation Science Alliance (AHISA), authored by Fogarty’s Susan Vorkoper, Fogarty Acting Deputy Director Rachel Sturke, and grantees Nadia A. Sam-Agudu, Linda-Gail Bekker
AIDS and Behavior, March 25, 2023
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Failing less by listening more: How to create sustainable teen HIV care
May / June 2022,
Global Health Matters -
Fogarty publishes HIV concept mapping project
May / Jun 2021,
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NIH funds study to prevent, treat HIV among adolescents in poor countries
NICHD/NIH news, Sep 19, 2018
Updated May 26, 2023