Catherine Hankins
Biographic Data
| ID | 1445762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Hankins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Hankins |
| SIGNATURE | HANKINS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1642-8592 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Help-Seeking to Cope With Experiences of Violence Among Women Living With HIV in Canada
Using baseline data from a community-collaborative cohort of women living with HIV in Canada, we assessed the prevalence and correlates of help-seeking among 1,057 women who reported experiencing violence in adulthood (≥16 years). After violence, 447 (42%) sought help, while 610 (58%) did not. Frequently accessed supports included health care providers ( n = 313, 70%), family/friends ( n = 244, 55%), and non-HIV community organizations ( n = 235,…
Sexual Anxiety Among Women Living with HIV in the Era of Antiretroviral Treatment Suppressing HIV Transmission
Love with HIV
The Importance of Sex in the Lives of Women Living with HIV
The authors explored the importance of sex for 1,289 women living with HIV in Canada. Approximately half of women viewed sex as “very” (19.6%) or “somewhat” important (32.3%) and the remaining reported “neither important or unimportant” (22.0%), “somewhat unimportant” (5.4%), or “not at all important” (20.1%). Women who had a regular sex partner, identified as African, Caribbean, or Black, were more educated, believed HIV treatment prevents trans…
Supporting the Sexual Rights of Women Living With HIV
In the context of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a focus on protecting others has overridden concern about women's own sexual well-being. Drawing on feminist theories, we measured sexual satisfaction and pleasure across five relationship types among women living with HIV in Canada. Of the 1,230 women surveyed, 38.1% were completely or very satisfied with their sexual lives, while 31.0% and 30.9% were reasonably or not very/not at all satisfi…
Envisioning Women-Centered HIV Care
The Problematization of Sexuality among Women Living with HIV and a New Feminist Approach for Understanding and Enhancing Women’s Sexual Lives
A tribute to Mark Wainberg, a pioneer in HIV/Aids research
Impact evaluation of a community-based intervention for prevention of cardiovascular diseases in the slums of Nairobi
BACKGROUND: A combination of increasing urbanization, behaviour change, and lack of health services in slums put the urban poor specifically at risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a community-based CVD prevention intervention on blood pressure (BP) and other CVD risk factors in a slum setting in Nairobi, Kenya. DESIGN: Prospective intervention study includes awareness campaigns, household visits for sc…
Global challenges keynote address in memoriam to colleagues lost in the Malaysia airlines 17 crash
Six colleagues working in the HIV field were killed when their flight en route to Kuala Lumpur was shot down over the Ukraine. This report is drawn from the in memoriam keynote opening address given at the 12th International AIDS Impact conference in Amsterdam in 2015. It highlights their tangible and valued roles in the HIV response and looks forward to the road ahead. It describes the ways in which we can build on their legacy to address curren…
Perceptions among Dutch men who have sex with men and their willingness to use rectal microbicides and oral pre-exposure prophylaxis to reduce HIV risk – a preliminary study
Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with antiretroviral (ARV) tablets and topical PrEP or microbicides containing ARV drugs could help to reduce HIV incidence. These methods hold promise for men who have sex with men (MSM) who are at higher risk of acquiring HIV. This mixed-methods study in the Netherlands explored perceptions of MSM and their willingness to use oral PrEP and rectal microbicides (RM) if made available. Recruited through social m…
Introducing a model of cardiovascular prevention in Nairobi's slums by integrating a public health and private-sector approach
INTRODUCTION: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with annual deaths expected to increase to 2 million by 2030. Currently, most national health systems in SSA are not adequately prepared for this epidemic. This is especially so in slum settlements where access to formal healthcare and resources is limited. OBJECTIVE: To develop and introduce a model of cardiovascular prevention in the slums of Nai…
Ethical Considerations in Determining Standard of Prevention Packages for HIV Prevention Trials
The successful demonstration that antiretroviral ( ARV ) drugs can be used in diverse ways to reduce HIV acquisition or transmission risks – either taken as pre‐exposure prophylaxis ( PrEP ) by those who are uninfected or as early treatment for prevention ( T4P ) by those living with HIV – expands the armamentarium of existing HIV prevention tools. These findings have implications for the design of future HIV prevention research trials. With the …
HIV and risk environment for injecting drug users
Facteurs psychosociaux influençant l’intention des femmes infectées par le VIH d’avoir un enfant
Cette étude documente les facteurs qui influencent l'intention d'avoir un enfant parmi 12 femmes en âge de procréer infectées par le virus de l'immunodéficience humaine (VIH) dans les trois prochaines années. Trois de ces femmes ont l'intention d'avoir un enfant. Leur intention est influencée par leurs croyances et leurs attitudes positives envers le fait d'avoir un enfant, l'influence positive du conjoint, l'absence des enfants auprès d'elle, la…
Sex, drugs, and gender? High time for lived experience to inform action
Male Circumcision
TWENTY years of observational data demonstrating an association between male circumcision and lower HIV prevalence followed the first publications in 1986 suggesting a possible role for male circumcision in HIV prevention. However randomised controlled trials were necessary to determine the level of the protective effect ascertain adverse surgical events rates and document sexual behaviour post-surgery. What do the results of these trials mean at…
My Place, Your Place, or a Safer Place
The role of prisons in the HIV epidemic among female injecting drug users
The objective of this study was to describe factors associated with imprisonment of female injecting drug users (IDUs) and to assess if female IDUs who have been in prison have different HIV risk behaviours when compared to females IDUs who have never been incarcerated. A seroepidemiological survey was conducted of 304 female IDUs recruited in outreach and treatment programmes in Madrid, Spain. Data on sociodemographic characteristics and recent …
Disclosure of HIV status and human rights
(2000). Disclosure of HIV status and human rights: The duties and responsibilities of couples, medical professionals, family members and the state. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 8, Reproductive rights, human rights and ethics, pp. 154-156
Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in developing countries
Various regimens of antiretroviral (ARV) therapy during pregnancy and labour have been found to be effective in reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Cost and late identification of women with HIV infection during pregnancy in many developing countries have been the impetus to study inexpensive, short-course ARV regimens. Recently, it was shown that a single dose of nevirapine given orally once during labour to the mother and …
Changes in patterns of risk
Against the background of debate about the nature of risk in relation to HIV transmission, and resultant changes in risk discourse from risk group to risk behaviour to risk situation, declines in the velocity of HIV spread are being documented in countries with high levels of political commitment and multi-sectoral approaches. Biological markers of sexual activity such as sexually transmitted disease incidence and HIV prevalence corroborate repor…
Sexuality in Montreal women living with HIV
The impact of learning a positive HIV test result on the sexuality of 161 women (47 injection drug users (IDU), 53 non-IDU women of Haitian or African origin (non-IDU-HA), and 61 non-IDU Caucasian women (non-IDU-C) was assessed using closed and open-ended questions. Self-reported CD4+ count correlated with any post-test (p = 0.001) and past month sexual activity (p = 0.007). After learning their HIV status, 110 women (68%) were sexually active, 4…
HIV infection among women in prison
The relative contributions of needle use practices and sexual behaviors to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody seropositivity among 394 women incarcerated in Quebec were determined by risk factor assessment and serology with a nonnominal methodology. HIV positivity was found in 6.9% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 4.6, 9.9) of all participants and in 13% (95% CI = 8.6, 18.6) of women with a history of injection drug use. HIV seropositivit…
Male Circumcision
TWENTY years of observational data demonstrating an association between male circumcision and lower HIV prevalence followed the first publications in 1986 suggesting a possible role for male circumcision in HIV prevention. However randomised controlled trials were necessary to determine the level of the protective effect ascertain adverse surgical events rates and document sexual behaviour post-surgery. What do the results of these trials mean at…
Supporting the Sexual Rights of Women Living With HIV
In the context of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a focus on protecting others has overridden concern about women's own sexual well-being. Drawing on feminist theories, we measured sexual satisfaction and pleasure across five relationship types among women living with HIV in Canada. Of the 1,230 women surveyed, 38.1% were completely or very satisfied with their sexual lives, while 31.0% and 30.9% were reasonably or not very/not at all satisfi…
The Problematization of Sexuality among Women Living with HIV and a New Feminist Approach for Understanding and Enhancing Women’s Sexual Lives
Love with HIV
My Place, Your Place, or a Safer Place
HIV infection among women in prison
The relative contributions of needle use practices and sexual behaviors to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody seropositivity among 394 women incarcerated in Quebec were determined by risk factor assessment and serology with a nonnominal methodology. HIV positivity was found in 6.9% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 4.6, 9.9) of all participants and in 13% (95% CI = 8.6, 18.6) of women with a history of injection drug use. HIV seropositivit…
HIV infection among women in prison
The relative contributions of needle use practices and sexual behaviors to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody seropositivity among 394 women incarcerated in Quebec were determined by risk factor assessment and serology with a nonnominal methodology. HIV positivity was found in 6.9% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 4.6, 9.9) of all participants and in 13% (95% CI = 8.6, 18.6) of women with a history of injection drug use. HIV seropositivit…
Sexuality in Montreal women living with HIV
The impact of learning a positive HIV test result on the sexuality of 161 women (47 injection drug users (IDU), 53 non-IDU women of Haitian or African origin (non-IDU-HA), and 61 non-IDU Caucasian women (non-IDU-C) was assessed using closed and open-ended questions. Self-reported CD4+ count correlated with any post-test (p = 0.001) and past month sexual activity (p = 0.007). After learning their HIV status, 110 women (68%) were sexually active, 4…
Changes in patterns of risk
Against the background of debate about the nature of risk in relation to HIV transmission, and resultant changes in risk discourse from risk group to risk behaviour to risk situation, declines in the velocity of HIV spread are being documented in countries with high levels of political commitment and multi-sectoral approaches. Biological markers of sexual activity such as sexually transmitted disease incidence and HIV prevalence corroborate repor…
Disclosure of HIV status and human rights
(2000). Disclosure of HIV status and human rights: The duties and responsibilities of couples, medical professionals, family members and the state. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 8, Reproductive rights, human rights and ethics, pp. 154-156
Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in developing countries
Various regimens of antiretroviral (ARV) therapy during pregnancy and labour have been found to be effective in reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Cost and late identification of women with HIV infection during pregnancy in many developing countries have been the impetus to study inexpensive, short-course ARV regimens. Recently, it was shown that a single dose of nevirapine given orally once during labour to the mother and …
The role of prisons in the HIV epidemic among female injecting drug users
The objective of this study was to describe factors associated with imprisonment of female injecting drug users (IDUs) and to assess if female IDUs who have been in prison have different HIV risk behaviours when compared to females IDUs who have never been incarcerated. A seroepidemiological survey was conducted of 304 female IDUs recruited in outreach and treatment programmes in Madrid, Spain. Data on sociodemographic characteristics and recent …
My Place, Your Place, or a Safer Place
Male Circumcision
TWENTY years of observational data demonstrating an association between male circumcision and lower HIV prevalence followed the first publications in 1986 suggesting a possible role for male circumcision in HIV prevention. However randomised controlled trials were necessary to determine the level of the protective effect ascertain adverse surgical events rates and document sexual behaviour post-surgery. What do the results of these trials mean at…
Facteurs psychosociaux influençant l’intention des femmes infectées par le VIH d’avoir un enfant
Cette étude documente les facteurs qui influencent l'intention d'avoir un enfant parmi 12 femmes en âge de procréer infectées par le virus de l'immunodéficience humaine (VIH) dans les trois prochaines années. Trois de ces femmes ont l'intention d'avoir un enfant. Leur intention est influencée par leurs croyances et leurs attitudes positives envers le fait d'avoir un enfant, l'influence positive du conjoint, l'absence des enfants auprès d'elle, la…
Sex, drugs, and gender? High time for lived experience to inform action
HIV and risk environment for injecting drug users
Introducing a model of cardiovascular prevention in Nairobi's slums by integrating a public health and private-sector approach
INTRODUCTION: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with annual deaths expected to increase to 2 million by 2030. Currently, most national health systems in SSA are not adequately prepared for this epidemic. This is especially so in slum settlements where access to formal healthcare and resources is limited. OBJECTIVE: To develop and introduce a model of cardiovascular prevention in the slums of Nai…
Ethical Considerations in Determining Standard of Prevention Packages for HIV Prevention Trials
The successful demonstration that antiretroviral ( ARV ) drugs can be used in diverse ways to reduce HIV acquisition or transmission risks – either taken as pre‐exposure prophylaxis ( PrEP ) by those who are uninfected or as early treatment for prevention ( T4P ) by those living with HIV – expands the armamentarium of existing HIV prevention tools. These findings have implications for the design of future HIV prevention research trials. With the …
Perceptions among Dutch men who have sex with men and their willingness to use rectal microbicides and oral pre-exposure prophylaxis to reduce HIV risk – a preliminary study
Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with antiretroviral (ARV) tablets and topical PrEP or microbicides containing ARV drugs could help to reduce HIV incidence. These methods hold promise for men who have sex with men (MSM) who are at higher risk of acquiring HIV. This mixed-methods study in the Netherlands explored perceptions of MSM and their willingness to use oral PrEP and rectal microbicides (RM) if made available. Recruited through social m…
Impact evaluation of a community-based intervention for prevention of cardiovascular diseases in the slums of Nairobi
BACKGROUND: A combination of increasing urbanization, behaviour change, and lack of health services in slums put the urban poor specifically at risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a community-based CVD prevention intervention on blood pressure (BP) and other CVD risk factors in a slum setting in Nairobi, Kenya. DESIGN: Prospective intervention study includes awareness campaigns, household visits for sc…
Global challenges keynote address in memoriam to colleagues lost in the Malaysia airlines 17 crash
Six colleagues working in the HIV field were killed when their flight en route to Kuala Lumpur was shot down over the Ukraine. This report is drawn from the in memoriam keynote opening address given at the 12th International AIDS Impact conference in Amsterdam in 2015. It highlights their tangible and valued roles in the HIV response and looks forward to the road ahead. It describes the ways in which we can build on their legacy to address curren…
Envisioning Women-Centered HIV Care
The Problematization of Sexuality among Women Living with HIV and a New Feminist Approach for Understanding and Enhancing Women’s Sexual Lives
A tribute to Mark Wainberg, a pioneer in HIV/Aids research
The Importance of Sex in the Lives of Women Living with HIV
The authors explored the importance of sex for 1,289 women living with HIV in Canada. Approximately half of women viewed sex as “very” (19.6%) or “somewhat” important (32.3%) and the remaining reported “neither important or unimportant” (22.0%), “somewhat unimportant” (5.4%), or “not at all important” (20.1%). Women who had a regular sex partner, identified as African, Caribbean, or Black, were more educated, believed HIV treatment prevents trans…
Supporting the Sexual Rights of Women Living With HIV
In the context of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a focus on protecting others has overridden concern about women's own sexual well-being. Drawing on feminist theories, we measured sexual satisfaction and pleasure across five relationship types among women living with HIV in Canada. Of the 1,230 women surveyed, 38.1% were completely or very satisfied with their sexual lives, while 31.0% and 30.9% were reasonably or not very/not at all satisfi…
Love with HIV
Sexual Anxiety Among Women Living with HIV in the Era of Antiretroviral Treatment Suppressing HIV Transmission
Help-Seeking to Cope With Experiences of Violence Among Women Living With HIV in Canada
Using baseline data from a community-collaborative cohort of women living with HIV in Canada, we assessed the prevalence and correlates of help-seeking among 1,057 women who reported experiencing violence in adulthood (≥16 years). After violence, 447 (42%) sought help, while 610 (58%) did not. Frequently accessed supports included health care providers ( n = 313, 70%), family/friends ( n = 244, 55%), and non-HIV community organizations ( n = 235,…
Medicine (24 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (18 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Environmental health (11 works) · Family medicine (10 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (8 works) · Sex work and related issues (8 works) · Population (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works)