BSGH Lab Research Projects

Ongoing research projects/funding

1. A formative study to explore healthcare provider cultural competence and HIV health-seeking behavior among transgender women in urban slum communities in Ghana.

  • Aim 1: Assess TGW experience of stigma and health access in HIV-related services.
  • Aim 2: Conduct explanatory surveillance among healthcare providers (HCP) on HIV-related services.
  • Source of Support: University of Rochester School of Nursing
  • Total Award Amount (including Indirect Costs): $5,000
  • MPI: Shamrock/Abu-Ba’are
  • Coordinator: Zigah
  • Implementing Partners: Priorities on Rights and Sexual Health (PORSH Ghana)

2. Assessing the role of place and intersectional stigma on access to HIV testing and options for HIVST and linkage to care among West African immigrant sexual minority men - sex workers in Italy.

3. Adaptation and feasibility of Many Men Many Voices (3MV), an HIV prevention intervention to reduce intersectional stigma and increase HIVST among YSMM residing in Ghanaian slums.

Completed research projects/funding

1. Formative Research to Adapt a Community-Based HIV Self-Testing Education and Promotion (STEP) Intervention for Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) living in Slum Settlements in Ghana.

2. Multi-level interventions for intersectional stigma reduction to improve HIV outcomes for transgender sex workers.

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