Yasaman Zia

Datos Biográficos

ID5137189
NOMBREYasaman Zia
NOMBRESYasaman
APELLIDOZia
FIRMAZIA Y
AFILIACIONESUniversity of California, San Francisco
ORCID0000-0001-6049-3706
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAS10
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2022
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Provider perspectives on telehealth for contraceptive care

    Open AccessAlejandra Alvarez, Sophie M Morse et al.ARTICLEReproductive Health2026

  • Training providers to improve access to emergency contraception in abortion ban states in the U.S.

    Open AccessRachel Mundaden, Alejandra Alvarez et al.ARTICLEReproductive Health2026

  • Racism in contraceptive care

    Open AccessYasaman Zia, Sophie M Morse et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2025

    Research has shown that Black and Latinx patients in the USA have poorer outcomes in sexual and reproductive health due to systemic racism. While the harm against Black and Latinx communities has been documented, gaps exist in understanding how modern racial dynamics in contraceptive care perpetuate inequity. The objective of this study was to assess how racism manifests in contraceptive care by exploring healthcare providers' experiences of raci…

  • The Effect of Stigma on Family Planning and HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Decisions of Young Women Accessing Post-Abortion Care in Kenya

    Open AccessYasaman Zia, Lydia Etyang et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2024

    Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Eastern and Southern Africa face parallel epidemics of unintended pregnancy and HIV. Their sexual health decisions are often dominated by intersecting stigmas. In an implementation science project integrating delivery of daily, oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention into 14 post-abortion care (PAC) clinics in Kenya, we enrolled a subset of PrEP initiating AGYW (aged 15 to 30 years) into …

  • Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Validation of the Sexual and Reproductive Empowerment Scale for Adolescents and Young Adults in Kenya

    Open AccessYasaman Zia, Ushma D Upadhyay et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning2024Citada por: 2Referencias: 40

    Understanding the levels of power that adolescent girls and young women exercise in their sexual and reproductive lives is imperative to inform interventions to help them meet their goals. We implemented an adapted version of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Empowerment (SRE) Scale for Adolescents and Young Adults among 500 adolescent girls and young women aged 15–20 in Kisumu, Kenya. We used confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to assess factor …

  • Depression and PrEP uptake, interruption, and adherence among young women in Uganda

    Open AccessYasaman Zia, Lydia Nambala et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2023

    Depression is a common cause of morbidity globally and can impact adherence to medications, posing challenges to medication-based HIV prevention. The objectives of this work are to describe the frequency of depression symptoms in a cohort of 499 young women in Kampala, Uganda and to determine the association of depression symptoms with use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Mild or greater depression, assessed by the patient health questionn…

  • Abortion Criminalization

    Taylor Riley, Yasaman Zia et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2022Citada por: 8Referencias: 13

    The Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the growing onslaught of state laws that criminalize abortion are part of a long history of maintaining White supremacy through reproductive control of Black and socially marginalized lives. As public health continues to recognize structural racism as a public health crisis and advances its measurement, it is imperative to explicate the connection between abortion criminalization and White su…