Past Projects

Key Populations Program

• HIV Prevention 2.0 (HP2)
  Principal Investigator: Stefan Baral

• HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) Protocol 078

• COPE4YMSM - Thai YMSM Prevention Effectiveness Evaluation
  Principal Investigator: Chris Beyrer

• Key Populations Implementation Science: Leveraging community and peer-based approaches to optimize the HIV treatment cascade among MSM in South Africa
  Principal Investigators: PGDM; Stefan Baral; Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya; Patrick Sullivan

• Continuum of Care Innovations for GMT in Burma/Myanmar
  Principal Investigators: Chris Beyrer, Soe Naing

• Novel methods to estimate HIV population attributable fraction of key populations
  Principal Investigator: Stefan Baral

• Continuum of Prevention, Care and Treatment (CoPCT) of HIV/AIDS with Most at-risk- Populations (CHAMP)
  Principal Investigator: Stefan Baral

• Optimizing the HIV Treatment Cascade in Togo using Individualized Case Management and Passive Data Collection with Unique Identifier Codes
  Principal Investigators: Stefan Baral, Virginie Ettiegne-Traoreé;

• Validation of Sexual Identity Stigma Metrics for Men Who Have Sex with Men
  Principal Investigator: Stefan Baral

• The Lancet Special Theme Issue: HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and TB among Prisoners
  Guest Editor: Chris Beyrer

• HIV and Access to Health Care among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Malawi
  Principal Investigator: Stefan Baral

• Impact of Providing HIV Medical and Prevention Services to Nigerian Men Who Sleep with Men (MSM) at a Trusted Community Center to Reduce HIV Infections by Engaging Networks of Friends and Partners to Support Safe Sex (TRUST study)
  Principal Investigators: William A. Blattner; Manhattan Charurat

• Innovative Approaches to Integrated Primary Health Care for Marginalized, At-Risk Population in Informal Settlements in Urban South Africa.
  Principal Investigators: Annelies Van Rie (University of North Carolina), Jean Bassett (Witkoppen Health and Welfare Centre), Sheree Schwartz and Colleen Hanrhan (Co-PIs, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health)

• Enhanced efforts to get infants and children in Port Elizabeth into PMTCT and health care programs
  Principal Investigators: Stefan Baral, Andrew Lambert, Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya

• Key populations and HIV epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Developing better epidemiologic evidence and tools to inform priorities and programmes
  Principal Investigators: Stefan Baral (JHSPH), Peter Vickerman (University of Bristol), Sharmistha Mishra (University of Toronto), Marie-Claude Boily (Imperial College), Erik Volz (Imperial College), James Blanchard (University of Manitoba)

• Feasibility and acceptability of a safer conception service in a public sector primary health care setting.
  Principal Investigators: Natasha Davies (Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute), Sheree Schwartz (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health) 

• Improving combination prevention safer conception packages for individuals & couples affected by HIV.
  Principal Investigator:  Sheree Schwartz 

• Lancet Commission on Public Health and International Drug Policy 
  Commission Leads: Chris Beyrer, Joanne Csete, Adeeba Kamalruzaman, Michel Kazatchkine, Susan Sherman