{"id":13054,"date":"2024-07-30T12:52:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T12:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=13054"},"modified":"2024-07-30T12:52:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T12:52:43","slug":"building-a-complementary-approach-to-hiv-service-delivery-for-key-populations-using-health-facilities-in-collaboration-with-community-based-organizations-in-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=13054","title":{"rendered":"Building a complementary approach to HIV service delivery for key populations using health facilities in collaboration with community-based organizations in Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Gift Kamanga<sup>1<\/sup>, Nana Fosua Clement<sup>1<\/sup>,Thomas Hallie<sup>1<\/sup>, Rachel Lyimo<sup>1<\/sup>,Danielle de Mora<sup>2<\/sup>,Cytirus Kerbay<sup>1<\/sup>, Michael Odo<sup>1,3<\/sup>, Lisa Harris<sup>1<\/sup>, Samretta Caldwell<sup>3<\/sup>, Julia T. Garbo<sup>3<\/sup>, Natasha Mack<sup>2<\/sup>, Pradeep K. Thakur<sup>2<\/sup>, Titus Koikoi<sup>4<\/sup>, Rose Wilcher<sup>2<\/sup>, Helene Sherman<sup>2<\/sup>, Christopher Akolo<sup>2<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>EpiC Project, FHI 360, Liberia<\/li><li>EpiC Project, FHI 360, Washington Dc, US<\/li><li>National AIDS and STI Control Program, Ministry of Health, Liberia<\/li><li>USAID, Liberia<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>*<strong>Corresponding Author:<\/strong> Gift Kamanga; E-mail:gkamanga@fhi360.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key populations (KPs), including female sex workers (FSWs), men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender (trans) people, prisoners, and people who use drugs, have specific risk behaviours and other vulnerabilities that place them at increased risk of HIV<sup>1<\/sup>. In addition, they play an important role in the dynamics of HIV prevention and transmission both within and outside of KP communities, as KPs and the general population are frequently interconnected through their sexual networks. For example, in a pooled cross-sectional study in three countries in sub-Saharan Africa, 54% of MSM had concurrent relationships with heterosexual partners, while studies in Malawi and Nigeria reported concurrence of heterosexual and same-sex partners among 56% and 47% of MSM, respectively<sup>2-4<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Kamanga.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gift Kamanga1, Nana Fosua Clement1,Thomas Hallie1, Rachel Lyimo1,Danielle de Mora2,Cytirus Kerbay1, Michael Odo1,3, Lisa Harris1, Samretta Caldwell3, Julia T. Garbo3, Natasha Mack2, Pradeep K. Thakur2, Titus Koikoi4, Rose Wilcher2, Helene Sherman2, Christopher Akolo2 EpiC Project, FHI 360, Liberia EpiC Project, FHI 360, Washington Dc, US National AIDS and STI Control Program, Ministry of Health, Liberia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[128],"tags":[68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13055,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054\/revisions\/13055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}