HIV, STIs, and Other Emerging Infectious Diseases
Researching prevention (e.g. PrEP), care, and stigma reduction for HIV and other infections affecting SRHR. Investigating vaccine access, hesitancy, and misinformation as part of infectious disease prevention strategies.
A human T cell (blue) under attack by HIV (yellow). Credit: Seth Pincus, Elizabeth Fischer and Austin Athman, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH.
Photo: Seth Pincus, Elizabeth Fischer and Austin Athman, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH
Areas of focus
- Risk behaviours
- Mental health
- Health Economics/Evaluations
- Gender
Research Projects
- SWECOV: Ett forskningsprogram om covid-19 i Sverige: Smittspridning, bekämpning och effekter på individer och samhälle.
For more information, contact: Maxim Kan - Individual and aggregate consequences of post-covid conditions
For more information, contact: Maxim Kan/Anna Mia Ekström - The Impact of COVID-19 Vaccinations and COVID-19 infections on Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases in Sweden
For more information, contact: Maxim Kan/Emily Maresch/Anna Mia Ekström - Health system resilience in Sweden during the pandemic through SWECOV
For more information contact: Maxim Kan/Emily Maresch/Anna Mia Ekström - Assessing Syringe Coverage per Injection Among Needle and Syringe Program Clients in StockholmFor more information contact: Maxim Kan/Martin Kåberg/Anna Mia Ekström
- Stability and change in social situation, service use and incarceration among patients at the Stockholm NSP: A latent transition analysis
For more information contact: Maxim Kan/Martin Kåberg - Harm Reduction in Focus: Longitudinal Insights into Needle and Syringe Programs in Sweden
For more information contact: Maxim Kan/Martin Kåberg/Anna Mia Ekström - Social Stratification, Migration, and Harm Reduction: Exploring Health Inequalities Among Participants in Swedish Needle and Syringe Programs
For more information contact: Maxim Kan - GLOBE-HPV
For more information contact: Anna Kågesten - SHIELD
For more information contact: Anna Kågesten - An evaluation of survey methodologies for measuring HIV and NCDs in Rakai - Uganda
For more information contact: Helena Nordenstedt - Collaboration grant to improve public health institute needs-based capacity strenghtening PhD
For more information contact: Helena Nordenstedt - Clinical outcomes of Ebola
For more information contact: Helena Nordenstedt - Behavior surveillance in the Ebola outbreak
For more information contact: Helena Nordenstedt - Risk communication and Ebola transmission
For more information contact: Helena Nordenstedt - An evaluation of survey methodologies for measuring HIV and NCDs in Rakai - Uganda
For more information contact: Helena Nordenstedt - The rise of autoimmune diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden
For more information contact: Helena Nordenstedt - Health system resilience in Sweden during the pandemic through SWECOV
For more information contact: Helena Nordenstedt - Evaluating pandemic response in Cameroon
For more information contact: Helena Nordenstedt - Evaluating regional preparedness plans
For more information contact: Helena Nordenstedt - The fecal, vaginal and oral microbiom and relationship to HIV incidence in a high risk population in Uganda_ a pilot study
For more information contact: Susanne Rautiainen - CTEST: Förbättra unga svenska män hälso- och sjukvård användning för Chlamydia trachomatis infektion upptäckt och behandling. Hur kan vi göra det?
For more information contact: Mariano Salazar - Effectiveness of Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PreP) of HIV in Rakai Uganda- a pilot study
For more information contact: Susanne Strömdahl - Evaluation of TestPoint, hiv-testing outside the health care setting in Stockholm
For more information contact: Susanne Strömdahl - Risk behaviour among men who have sex with men (MSM)- EMIS
For more information contact: Susanne Strömdahl - Risk behaviour among women who inject drugs in Sweden
For more information contact: Susanne Strömdahl - Effectiveness of online HIV prevention intervention among MSM in Vietnam
For more information contact: Anna Thorson - Effectiveness of online HIV prevention intervention among MSM in Vietnam
For more information contact: Anna Thorson - Effectiveness of online HIV prevention intervention among MSM in Vietnam
For more information contact: Anna Thorson - I-Share ANSER study (Sweden and 30 other countries)
For more information contact: Elin Larsson - Improving psychosocial support services among children and young people living with HIV in East Africa
For more information contact: Elin Larsson - ENGAGE project
For more information contact: Elin Larsson - GLOBE-HPV
For more information contact: Elin Larsson - Point of care testing for viral load among youth living with HIV- EA-PoC EDCTP (Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya)
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström - Risk behaviour, hiv and hepatitis infection among people who inject drugs in Sweden
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström - Migrants - sexual and reproductive health and rights in relation to norms, HIV and risk behaviours in young migrants in Sweden
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström - Uptake of HIV testing and risk behaviour change potential among men in South Africa
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström - WELTEL PMTCT: a randomized control trial through mobile phones among women living with HIV in Western Kenya
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström - HPV , HIV and anal cancer lesions
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström/Muslima Ejaz
Previous projects:
- An evaluation of survey methodologies for measuring HIV and NCDs in Rakai - Uganda (Uganda)
For more information contact: Helena Hordenstedt - Buddy study – COVID-19 crisis impact on gender-based violence (GBV) among HIV-positive and negative youth in South Africa (DTHF) (South Africa)
For more information contact: Anna Kågesten - Collaboration grant to improve public health institute needs-based capacoty strenghtening PhD (Liberia)
For more information contact: Helena Hordenstedt - COVID-19 crisis impact on food security, mental health, drug use, GBV and HIV prevention and care in Uganda (AMBSO HDSS) (Uganda)
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström - COVID-19 crisis impact on GBV including sexual abuse and teenage pregnancies in Malawi (Ujamaa, UNICEF) (Malawi)
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström - COVID-19 impact on harm reduction, food security, GBV, access to HIV prevention and care in Myanmar (AHRN) (Myanmar)
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström - Effectiveness of online HIV prevention intervention among MSM in Vietnam (Vietnam)
For more information contact: Anna Thorson - Effectiveness of Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PreP) of HIV in Rakai Uganda- a pilot study (Uganda)
For more information contact: Susanne Strömdahl - Estimating the size of the Swedish PWID population (Sweden)
For more information contact: Niklas Karlsson - Evaluation of TestPoint, hiv-testing outside the health care setting in Stockholm (Sweden)
For more information contact: Susanne Strömdahl - Gender Based Violence in South Africa Budy study (South Africa)
For more information contact: Anna Kågesten - HPV , HIV and anal cancer lesions
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström or Muslima Ejaz - Mental health and substance use in Uganda (Uganda)
For more information contact: Anna-Clara Hollander or Anna Mia Ekström - Myanmar Key PWID / sex worker focus (Myanmar)
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström - Point of care testing for virla load among youth living with HIV- EA-PoC EDCTP (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda)
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström - Risk behaviour among men who have sex with men (MSM)- EMIS (Sweden)
For more information contact: Susanne Strömdahl - Risk behaviour among women who inject drugs in Sweden (Sweden)
For more information contact: Susanne Strömdahl or Anna Mia Ekström - Risk behaviour, hiv and hepatitis infection among people who inject drugs in Sweden (Sweden)
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström - Stigma and Risk behaviour among men who have sex with men (MSM) - U=U (Sweden)
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström - The effect of WHO-Option B+ implementation on EMTCT HIV-free infant survival and maternal ART outcomes in routine care settings in Tanzania (Tanzania)
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström - The fecal, vaginal and oral microbiom and relationship to HIV incidence in a high risk population in Uganda_ a pilot study (Uganda)
For more information contact: Susanne Rautiainen Lagerström - Ujamaa – reducing genderbased violence in Kenya (Kenya)
For more information contact: Anna Kågesten - Ujamaa – reducing genderbased violence in Malawi (Malawi)
For more information contact: Anna Kågesten - Uptake of HIV testing and risk behaviour change potential among men in South Africa (South Africa)
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström - WELTEL PMTCT: a randomized control trial through mobile phones among women living with HIV in Western Kenya (Kenya)
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström