K Hampanda
Biographic Data
| ID | 2575196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Hampanda |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Hampanda |
| SIGNATURE | HAMPANDA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado School of Public Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7577-5500 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
End-user preferences for biomedical HIV prevention products and service delivery models
Adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa are disproportionately affected by HIV. We determined acceptability and desirability of pre-exposure prophylaxis products and delivery modalities among female university students in Zambia. In 2022, we conducted an online survey (n = 806) and focus group discussions (n = 34) with female students at a public university in Zambia, focused on PrEP products and service delivery preferences. Descr…
Hair salons as a promising space to provide HIV and sexual and reproductive health services for young women in Lesotho
This study suggests that offering HIV/SRH services in hair salons in Lesotho seems to be largely acceptable and feasible with some addressable barriers, based on survey data. A pilot intervention, guided by this study's recommendations, is warranted to translate these findings into practice
Development and Validation of a Novel Risk Calculator to Predict Sub-optimal HIV Outcomes Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women with HIV in Kenya
No tool currently exists to predict the cumulative risk of suboptimal clinical outcomes among pregnant and postpartum women with HIV (PPWH). This study sought to develop and validate a parsimonious risk calculator capable of predicting disengagement from care and HIV treatment failure among PPWH. We created the risk calculator using data from 1,331 PPWH from Southwestern Kenya (Homabay, Migori, and Kisumu Counties) in the Mother Infant Visit Adhe…
Affordable, convenient and discreet
A significant unmet need for family planning exists among Zambian adolescent women aged 15-24. This study investigated knowledge, attitudes and behaviours regarding contraception use and associated barriers with obtaining contraception, among a group of female university students in Lusaka, Zambia. A descriptive qualitative study was conducted using focus-group discussions (FGDs). Through a preliminary online survey, enrolled university students …
Antiretroviral therapy adherence among peripartum women with HIV in Kenya
Adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) remains sub-optimal among pregnant and postpartum women with HIV (PPWH) in high HIV prevalence low resource settings with few effective behavioral interventions. A large body of qualitative literature has established general barriers and facilitators to ART adherence in PPWH at various levels (individual, interpersonal, structural). However, research exploring the underlying behavioral mechanisms of ART a…
Money, chores and emotional support
In sub-Saharan Africa, involving male partners in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV improves maternal and infant outcomes. Male involvement is typically conceptualised as male partners attending antenatal care, which is difficult for many men. Little is known about how men view their involvement in family health within the context of HIV, particularly outside of clinic attendance. Through interviews with 35 male partners of pr…
Virtual Prenatal and Postpartum Care Acceptability Among Maternity Care Providers
Teacher Nomination of School-aged Children for Mental Health Services in a Low and Middle Income Country
Background: Knowledgeable in child development, primary school teachers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have the potential to identify their students needing mental health care.Objective: We evaluated whether teachers in Darjeeling, India can accurately nominate school-aged children for mental health services after training and aided by a novel tool.Methods: In 2018, 19 primary school teachers from five low-cost private (LCP) schools …
Teacher and caregiver perceptions of family engagement in teacher-led task-shifted child mental health care in a low-and-middle-income country
The mental health needs of children in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs) often go unmet due to a lack of qualified mental health professionals. Task-shifting the provision of mental health services to teachers may facilitate access to care. Family engagement in task-shifting may support mental health outcomes but is understudied in this context. The current study explored teacher and caregiver perceptions of family engagement within a teach…
The Potential Emergence of “Education as Mental Health Therapy” as a Feasible Form of Teacher-Delivered Child Mental Health Care in a Low and Middle Income Country
Objective: We assessed task-shifting children's mental health care to teachers as a potential approach to improving access to child mental health care. Methods: In Darjeeling, India, we conducted a single-arm, mixed-methods feasibility study with 19 teachers and 36 children in five rural primary schools to determine whether teachers can deliver transdiagnostic mental health care to select children-in-need with fidelity to protocol, to assess whic…
Men’s perceptions of sexual and reproductive health education within the context of pregnancy and HIV in Zambia
Background Although health care providers are beginning to focus on men’s roles as fathers and husbands, there is limited understanding of how men view their ability to promote sexual and reproductive health in families affected by HIV and their experiences with receiving education through antenatal care. This paper aims to explore men’s perceptions of the education they need regarding sexual and reproductive health within the family in the conte…
Designing a couple-based relationship strengthening and health enhancing intervention for pregnant women living with HIV and their male partners in Zambia
HIV status disclosure patterns and male partner reactions among pregnant women with HIV on lifelong ART in Western Kenya
Disclosure of HIV status to sexual partners in the context of prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) may contribute to improved PMTCT outcomes. We administered a questionnaire to 200 women with HIV enrolled in a PMTCT study during pregnancy at 12 months after birth in Western Kenya between May-September 2017. Descriptive analysis of disclosure patterns and multivariate analysis of factors associated with male partner reactions is pres…
Development of a Novel Scale to Measure Male Partner Involvement in the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Kenya
Effects of Depression, Stigma and Intimate Partner Violence on Postpartum Women’s Adherence and Engagement in HIV Care in Kenya
HIV Status Disclosure Among Postpartum Women in Zambia with Varied Intimate Partner Violence Experiences
Examining the Unique Characteristics of a Non-Probability Sample of Undocumented Female Sex Workers with Dependent Children
Understanding internalized HIV/Aids-related stigmas in the Dominican Republic
HIV/AIDS-related stigmas can become internalized, resulting in declines in physical and mental health. Pathways to internalized HIV-related stigma (IS), characterized by persistently negative, self-abasing thoughts, are not well established among women living with HIV/AIDS (WLWHA) in the Dominican Republic (DR). Identifying factors involved in self-directed shaming and blaming is important, given the high HIV prevalence in the DR's most vulnerabl…
Intimate Partner Violence Against HIV-Positive Women is Associated with Sub-Optimal Infant Feeding Practices in Lusaka, Zambia
Intimate partner violence and HIV-positive women's non-adherence to antiretroviral medication for the purpose of prevention of mother-to-child transmission in Lusaka, Zambia
Perceptions of health care services and HIV-related health-seeking behavior among Uganda adolescents
Youth represent almost half of all new HIV infections globally. Although condom use is an effective method of HIV prevention among sexually active youth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), they face substantial barriers in obtaining condoms in environments where adults hold attitudes condemning premarital sex. More research is needed to better understand the multitude of factors that affect SSA youths' behaviors regarding safe sex practices, including f…
Social Constructions of Masculinity and Male Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence
Male sexual violence has been reported in 25 armed conflicts in recent years. However, communities and organizations are not equipped to deal with male survivors of sexual violence because it undermines the ideals of social constructions of masculinity. Compared with females, male survivors lack access to reproductive health programs and are generally ignored in gender-based violence discourse. Yet, male survivors are known to suffer from numerou…
Intimate partner violence and HIV-positive women's non-adherence to antiretroviral medication for the purpose of prevention of mother-to-child transmission in Lusaka, Zambia
Designing a couple-based relationship strengthening and health enhancing intervention for pregnant women living with HIV and their male partners in Zambia
Social Constructions of Masculinity and Male Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence
Male sexual violence has been reported in 25 armed conflicts in recent years. However, communities and organizations are not equipped to deal with male survivors of sexual violence because it undermines the ideals of social constructions of masculinity. Compared with females, male survivors lack access to reproductive health programs and are generally ignored in gender-based violence discourse. Yet, male survivors are known to suffer from numerou…
Perceptions of health care services and HIV-related health-seeking behavior among Uganda adolescents
Youth represent almost half of all new HIV infections globally. Although condom use is an effective method of HIV prevention among sexually active youth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), they face substantial barriers in obtaining condoms in environments where adults hold attitudes condemning premarital sex. More research is needed to better understand the multitude of factors that affect SSA youths' behaviors regarding safe sex practices, including f…
Understanding internalized HIV/Aids-related stigmas in the Dominican Republic
HIV/AIDS-related stigmas can become internalized, resulting in declines in physical and mental health. Pathways to internalized HIV-related stigma (IS), characterized by persistently negative, self-abasing thoughts, are not well established among women living with HIV/AIDS (WLWHA) in the Dominican Republic (DR). Identifying factors involved in self-directed shaming and blaming is important, given the high HIV prevalence in the DR's most vulnerabl…
Intimate Partner Violence Against HIV-Positive Women is Associated with Sub-Optimal Infant Feeding Practices in Lusaka, Zambia
Intimate partner violence and HIV-positive women's non-adherence to antiretroviral medication for the purpose of prevention of mother-to-child transmission in Lusaka, Zambia
HIV Status Disclosure Among Postpartum Women in Zambia with Varied Intimate Partner Violence Experiences
Examining the Unique Characteristics of a Non-Probability Sample of Undocumented Female Sex Workers with Dependent Children
Development of a Novel Scale to Measure Male Partner Involvement in the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Kenya
Effects of Depression, Stigma and Intimate Partner Violence on Postpartum Women’s Adherence and Engagement in HIV Care in Kenya
HIV status disclosure patterns and male partner reactions among pregnant women with HIV on lifelong ART in Western Kenya
Disclosure of HIV status to sexual partners in the context of prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) may contribute to improved PMTCT outcomes. We administered a questionnaire to 200 women with HIV enrolled in a PMTCT study during pregnancy at 12 months after birth in Western Kenya between May-September 2017. Descriptive analysis of disclosure patterns and multivariate analysis of factors associated with male partner reactions is pres…
Teacher Nomination of School-aged Children for Mental Health Services in a Low and Middle Income Country
Background: Knowledgeable in child development, primary school teachers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have the potential to identify their students needing mental health care.Objective: We evaluated whether teachers in Darjeeling, India can accurately nominate school-aged children for mental health services after training and aided by a novel tool.Methods: In 2018, 19 primary school teachers from five low-cost private (LCP) schools …
Teacher and caregiver perceptions of family engagement in teacher-led task-shifted child mental health care in a low-and-middle-income country
The mental health needs of children in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs) often go unmet due to a lack of qualified mental health professionals. Task-shifting the provision of mental health services to teachers may facilitate access to care. Family engagement in task-shifting may support mental health outcomes but is understudied in this context. The current study explored teacher and caregiver perceptions of family engagement within a teach…
The Potential Emergence of “Education as Mental Health Therapy” as a Feasible Form of Teacher-Delivered Child Mental Health Care in a Low and Middle Income Country
Objective: We assessed task-shifting children's mental health care to teachers as a potential approach to improving access to child mental health care. Methods: In Darjeeling, India, we conducted a single-arm, mixed-methods feasibility study with 19 teachers and 36 children in five rural primary schools to determine whether teachers can deliver transdiagnostic mental health care to select children-in-need with fidelity to protocol, to assess whic…
Men’s perceptions of sexual and reproductive health education within the context of pregnancy and HIV in Zambia
Background Although health care providers are beginning to focus on men’s roles as fathers and husbands, there is limited understanding of how men view their ability to promote sexual and reproductive health in families affected by HIV and their experiences with receiving education through antenatal care. This paper aims to explore men’s perceptions of the education they need regarding sexual and reproductive health within the family in the conte…
Designing a couple-based relationship strengthening and health enhancing intervention for pregnant women living with HIV and their male partners in Zambia
Virtual Prenatal and Postpartum Care Acceptability Among Maternity Care Providers
Antiretroviral therapy adherence among peripartum women with HIV in Kenya
Adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) remains sub-optimal among pregnant and postpartum women with HIV (PPWH) in high HIV prevalence low resource settings with few effective behavioral interventions. A large body of qualitative literature has established general barriers and facilitators to ART adherence in PPWH at various levels (individual, interpersonal, structural). However, research exploring the underlying behavioral mechanisms of ART a…
Money, chores and emotional support
In sub-Saharan Africa, involving male partners in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV improves maternal and infant outcomes. Male involvement is typically conceptualised as male partners attending antenatal care, which is difficult for many men. Little is known about how men view their involvement in family health within the context of HIV, particularly outside of clinic attendance. Through interviews with 35 male partners of pr…
End-user preferences for biomedical HIV prevention products and service delivery models
Adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa are disproportionately affected by HIV. We determined acceptability and desirability of pre-exposure prophylaxis products and delivery modalities among female university students in Zambia. In 2022, we conducted an online survey (n = 806) and focus group discussions (n = 34) with female students at a public university in Zambia, focused on PrEP products and service delivery preferences. Descr…
Hair salons as a promising space to provide HIV and sexual and reproductive health services for young women in Lesotho
This study suggests that offering HIV/SRH services in hair salons in Lesotho seems to be largely acceptable and feasible with some addressable barriers, based on survey data. A pilot intervention, guided by this study's recommendations, is warranted to translate these findings into practice
Development and Validation of a Novel Risk Calculator to Predict Sub-optimal HIV Outcomes Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women with HIV in Kenya
No tool currently exists to predict the cumulative risk of suboptimal clinical outcomes among pregnant and postpartum women with HIV (PPWH). This study sought to develop and validate a parsimonious risk calculator capable of predicting disengagement from care and HIV treatment failure among PPWH. We created the risk calculator using data from 1,331 PPWH from Southwestern Kenya (Homabay, Migori, and Kisumu Counties) in the Mother Infant Visit Adhe…
Affordable, convenient and discreet
A significant unmet need for family planning exists among Zambian adolescent women aged 15-24. This study investigated knowledge, attitudes and behaviours regarding contraception use and associated barriers with obtaining contraception, among a group of female university students in Lusaka, Zambia. A descriptive qualitative study was conducted using focus-group discussions (FGDs). Through a preliminary online survey, enrolled university students …
Medicine (19 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (15 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (14 works) · Environmental health (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Family medicine (12 works) · Nursing (12 works) · Public health (9 works) · Pregnancy (8 works) · Psychiatry (8 works)