Liviana Calzavara

Datos Biográficos

ID323890
NOMBRELiviana Calzavara
NOMBRESLiviana
APELLIDOCalzavara
FIRMACALZAVARA L
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Toronto
ORCID0000-0003-2935-1851
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS34
TOTAL DE CITAS22
TOTAL COMO AUTOR34
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1996
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H3

  • Viral suppression by residency status among men living with HIV in the context of the expanded ART policy in Shanghai, China

    Open AccessJoshua B Mendelsohn, Yinzhong Shen et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Access to China’s national free antiretroviral therapy (ART) program was historically restricted to the home province or province of birth (“Hukou”). During the COVID-19 pandemic, Shanghai facilitated access to free ART and supportive services for all Shanghai residents regardless of residency status. Our aim was to study differences in viral suppression according to residency status in Shanghai, China. We conducted a cross-sectional survey with …

  • “I think it made me a better person”

    Open AccessShira B Taylor, Liviana Calzavara et al.ARTICLEHealth Education2025

    Purpose Immigrant youth face both unique and disproportionate barriers to sexual health. Targeted sexual health education to redress these disparities requires creative and inclusive approaches that consider personal and community challenges and strengths. This study piloted a novel intervention: SExT: Sex Education by Theatre, a theatre-based, culturally-relevant, participatory action research programme delivered in an immigration destination ne…

  • Post-arrival HIV acquisition patterns

    Open AccessWangari Tharao, Thabani Nyoni et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2025Referencias: 19

  • Disclosure of HIV-serodiscordant relationships and association with viral suppression

    Open AccessJoshua B Mendelsohn, Liviana Calzavara et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2023

    BACKGROUND: Little is known about the effects of disclosure of HIV-serodiscordant relationships on clinical outcomes. We aimed to evaluate the effect of relationship disclosure on HIV viral suppression, and hypothesized that disclosure by HIV-positive and HIV-negative partners would be associated with viral suppression in the HIV-positive partner. METHODS: We conducted a Canadian national online and telephone-administered survey of HIV-positive a…

  • Sex Education by Theatre (SExT)

    Shira B Taylor, Liviana Calzavara et al.ARTICLESex Education2022

    Despite rising rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and inequitable access to education and services, few studies have addressed the unique sex education needs of newcomer youth in Canada and other increasingly demographically diverse Western countries. This study involved the design, implementation and evaluation of a novel and innovative participatory action research project, SExT: Sex Education by Theatre. SExT is a theatre-based, c…

  • Social capital and HIV-serodiscordance

    Open AccessJames Iveniuk, Liviana Calzavara et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2022

    As people living with HIV are living longer lives, they have a correspondingly greater opportunity to enjoy long-term romantic and sexual partnerships, including with persons who do not live with HIV ("serodiscordant" relationships). In these dyads, asymmetries may emerge in access to social resources between partners. In this paper we examined how serodiscordant couples access informal (interpersonal, such as family and friends) and formal (prac…

  • A national recruitment strategy for HIV-serodiscordant partners living in Canada for the Positive Plus One study

    Open AccessMin Xi, Sandra Bullock et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Our findings provide important new information on and support the use of a multi-pronged approach to recruit HIV-positive and HIV-negative individuals involved in HIV-serodiscordant relationships in Canada. More creative strategies are needed to help index partners recruit their partner in relationships with lower satisfaction and shorter duration and further minimize the risk of "happy couple" bias

  • Dual pharmaceutical citizenship

    Open AccessMolly Ryan, Joshua B Mendelsohn et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 19

  • Examining HIV-related stigma among African, Caribbean, and Black church congregants from the Black PRAISE study in Ontario, Canada

    Jelani Kerr, Kelsey Burton et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2021

    316) and linear regressions determined relationships between HIV-related stigma and stigma subdomains with demographics, greater disagreement with same-sex relationships, HIV knowledge, and religiosity. Greater disagreement with same-sex relationships was the only variable associated with the HIV-related stigma scale and all of its subscales. Age, gender, HIV knowledge, religiosity, contact with persons living with HIV, and length of time in Cana…

  • Love, Judgement and HIV

    Open AccessWinston Husbands, Joanita Nakamwa et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2021Referencias: 35

  • The Gender Nonconformity Teasing Scale for gay and bisexual men

    Trevor Hart, Syed W Noor et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Men & Masculinity2018

  • Childhood Maltreatment, Bullying Victimization, and Psychological Distress Among Gay and Bisexual Men

    Trevor Hart, Syed W Noor et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Sex Research2017Citada por: 7Referencias: 10

    Sexual minority men report higher psychological distress than heterosexual men, including depression and anxiety. Research suggests that these health disparities may be due to the heightened stressors that gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals experience. Some of these stressors occur early on in life, such as childhood abuse and bullying, and may include stressors that are topically related to sexual minority status, such as anti-gay bullying a…

  • Impact evaluation of a community-based intervention to reduce risky sexual behaviour among female sex workers in Shanghai, China

    Open AccessJuan Liu, Liviana Calzavara et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    Following a preventive intervention among Shanghai FSWs, our findings demonstrate that a simple, community-based educational intervention improved overall condom use, HIV and STI knowledge, and attitudes in relation to HIV/AIDS. The intervention should be implemented widely after tailoring educational materials regarding condom negotiation with different partner types (i.e., commercial sex clients and primary partners)

  • Retrospective Reports of Developmental Stressors, Syndemics, and Their Association with Sexual Risk Outcomes Among Gay Men

    Open AccessTyler G Tulloch, Nooshin Khobzi Rotondi et al.ARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2015Citada por: 6Referencias: 11

    Gay and bisexual men (GBM) continue to have a disproportionately higher HIV incidence than any other group in Canada and the United States. This study examined how multiple co-occurring psychosocial problems, also known as a syndemic, contribute to high-risk sexual behavior among GBM. It also examined the impact of early life adversity on high-risk sexual behavior as mediated by syndemic severity. A sample of 239 GBM completed self-report questio…

  • Drug use prior to incarceration and associated socio-behavioural factors among males in a provincial correctional facility in Ontario, Canada

    Open AccessFiona G Kouyoumdjian, Liviana Calzavara et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2014Citada por: 1Referencias: 21

  • Individual and jurisdictional factors associated with voluntary HIV testing in Canada

    Catherine Worthington, Catherine A Worthington et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2014Referencias: 9

  • Intimate partner violence is associated with incident HIV infection in women in Uganda

    Fiona G Kouyoumdjian, Liviana Calzavara et al.ARTICLEAIDS2013

    OBJECTIVES: To quantify the association between intimate partner violence (IPV) and incident HIV infection in women in the Rakai Community Cohort Study between 2000 and 2009. DESIGN AND METHODS: Data were from the Rakai Community Cohort Study annual surveys between 2000 and 2009. Longitudinal data analysis was used to estimate the adjusted incidence rate ratio (IRR) of incident HIV associated with IPV in sexually active women aged 15-49 years, us…

  • Risk factors for intimate partner violence in women in the Rakai Community Cohort Study, Uganda, from 2000 to 2009

    Open AccessFiona G Kouyoumdjian, Liviana Calzavara et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2013

    Using longitudinal data, this study identified a number of risk factors for IPV. These findings are useful for the development of prevention strategies to prevent and mitigate IPV in women

  • The Impact of Stressful Life Events on Unprotected Anal Intercourse Among Gay and Bisexual Men

    Open AccessLiviana Calzavara, Liviana M Calzavara et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2011

  • Prevalence and Predictors of Urethral Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Infection in Male Inmates in an Ontario Correctional Facility

    Open AccessFiona G Kouyoumdjian, Cheryl Main et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2011Citada por: 1Referencias: 10

  • Effect of Early versus Deferred Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV on Survival

    Mari M Kitahata, Stephen J Gange et al.ARTICLENew England Journal of Medicine2009

    BACKGROUND: The optimal time for the initiation of antiretroviral therapy for asymptomatic patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is uncertain. METHODS: We conducted two parallel analyses involving a total of 17,517 asymptomatic patients with HIV infection in the United States and Canada who received medical care during the period from 1996 through 2005. None of the patients had undergone previous antiretroviral therapy. In ea…

  • Delayed application of condoms with safer and unsafe sex

    Dan Allman, Kunyong Xu et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2009

    While condom use remains one of the most effective measures to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV, decreasing attention appears to be given to its importance and techniques of effective use relative to potential biomedical technologies. This paper focuses on delayed condom application (DCA), one practice which has been implicated in HIV transmission among gay and bisexual men. It examines the prevalence of the practice within a gay community …

  • Accounts of HIV Seroconversion Among Substance-Using Gay and Bisexual Men

    Open AccessJeffrey P Aguinaldo, Ted Myers et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2009Citada por: 2Referencias: 60

    Statistical associations between substance use and seroconversion among gay and bisexual men abound. However, these associations often ignore men's own interpretations of their seroconversion. Using in-depth interviews with gay and bisexual men who reported using drugs or alcohol at the time of their seroconversion, we identify how these men explain the events that led to HIV transmission. Whereas a small minority of respondents reported substanc…

  • Experiences of and responses to HIV among African and Caribbean communities in Toronto, Canada

    Fauzia Gardezi, Liviana Calzavara et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2008

    African and Caribbean communities in Canada and other developed countries are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS. This qualitative study of African and Caribbean communities in Toronto sought to understand HIV-related stigma, discrimination, denial and fear, and the effects of multiple intersecting factors that influence responses to the disease, prevention practices and access to treatment and support services. Semi-structured interviews we…

  • A qualitative study on the initiation into injection drug use

    Nooshin Khobzi, Carol Strike et al.ARTICLEAddiction Research & Theory2008

    Previous literature has identified several factors associated with the initiation of injection drug use; we add to this literature by focussing on the biological, psychosocial, socio-cultural and socio-structural processes that play a role in injection initiation. We identified three necessary processes. Firstly, one must already have developed a conception of drugs as creating desired effects. Secondly, initiation is born out of a social context…