Vivienne Kamire

Biographic Data

ID7787423
NAMEVivienne Kamire
GIVEN NAMESVivienne
FAMILY NAMEKamire
SIGNATUREKAMIRE V
AFFILIATIONSKenya Medical Research Institute
ORCID0000-0002-5558-8070
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Young widowhood as a predictor of HIV risk behaviors in a high HIV prevalence setting in Siaya County, Kenya

    Open AccessJackline A Odhiambo, Louisa Ndunyu et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2026

    BACKGROUND: Widowed women in sub-Saharan Africa bear a disproportionate burden of HIV/AIDS. OBJECTIVES: We examined the likely period of HIV exposure among widows living with HIV and the patterns and predictors of widowed women's HIV risk behaviors. METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional survey with an age-stratified random sample of widowed women in Siaya County, Kenya. We estimated the period of HIV exposure and the prevalence of HIV-risk beha…

  • What combination of interventions can optimise HIV prevention for adolescent girls and young women? Cohort analysis of DREAMS participation in urban and rural Kenya

    Open AccessFaith Magut, Sarah Mulwa et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Comprehensive intervention packages are recommended to address multiple sources of HIV risk for adolescent girls and young women (AGYW). DREAMS is a multi-component HIV prevention program designed to reduce HIV incidence among AGYW. We conducted a prospective cohort study among AGYW aged 13–22 years, randomly selected in rural Gem and urban Nairobi informal settlements followed from 2017/2018–2019. AGYW were classified into three groups: (1) invi…

  • Impact of a multilevel HIV prevention programme on adolescent girls and young women’s empowerment for risk reduction

    Open AccessElizabeth Kemigisha, Jane Osindo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Empowerment is key to person-centered HIV prevention. This study aims to evaluate the extent to which the Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, Safe (DREAMS) Partnership promotes empowerment of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Kenya. We conducted a mixed-methods study to examine DREAMS influence on empowerment precursors (resources, agency, institutional structures) and outcomes, guided by Kabeer’s framework for women’s…

  • Widowed and at risk

    Open AccessJackline A Odhiambo, Ali Mizarzardeh et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    From a decade long follow-up, we show a disproportionately high and increasing prevalence of HIV among widowed women in Siaya, Kenya. Among both widowed and married women, there was an association between living with HIV and younger age, 10-year younger sexual partners and experiencing forced sex. Policies that prioritize widowed women could assist in the development of targeted interventions that address the unique challenges of this important s…

  • Impact of DREAMS interventions on attitudes towards gender norms among adolescent girls and young women

    Open AccessKate Andrews Nelson, Faith Magut et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    The DREAMS partnership aims to deliver a comprehensive package to reduce HIV incidence among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), including through shifting gender norms. We evaluate DREAMS’ effect on attitudes towards gender norms in two Kenyan settings. AGYW aged 15–22 in Nairobi (n = 852) and Gem (n = 761) were randomly selected for cohort enrolment in 2017–18 and followed-up to 2019. We described the proportion of AGYW and their male peer…

  • Impact of the DREAMS Partnership on social support and general self-efficacy among adolescent girls and young women

    Open AccessAnnabelle Gourlay, Sian Floyd et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    INTRODUCTION: The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) Partnership aimed to influence psychosocial processes that promote empowerment among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), and reduce HIV incidence. We estimated the impact of DREAMS on aspects of AGYW's collective and individual agency (specifically, social support and self-efficacy), in three settings where DREAMS was implemented from 2016 until at leas…

  • Is maternal HIV infection a risk factor for delayed or missed infant measles vaccination in western Kenya

    Benard Omondi Ochieng, Benard Ochieng et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2020

    Measles is a highly infectious virus and one of the leading causes of childhood morbidity and mortality in areas with low immunization rates. Despite the introduction of the measles vaccine preventing about 20 million deaths between 2000 and 2016, there still is a low uptake of the vaccine, especially in low-income countries. Maternal HIV positive status is identified as one of the factors inhibiting the uptake of the measles vaccine in some sett…