Comfort Asante
Biographic Data
| ID | 189359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Comfort Asante |
| GIVEN NAMES | Comfort |
| FAMILY NAME | Asante |
| SIGNATURE | ASANTE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northrise University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5436-9415 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Integrating HPV vaccination into ART clinics
People living with HIV are more likely to have persistent HPV infections, increasing the risk of developing HPV-related cancers (e.g., cervical cancer). The HPV vaccination offers protection against such cancers. However, administering the HPV vaccination according to the recommended schedule for adolescents who are living with HIV holds challenges. ART clinics may provide opportune locations in places with high burden of HIV. In our 5-year study…
Where there are no visitors
A Heart for the Care
At the only standalone pediatric hospital in Zambia, patient wellbeing often rests in the hands of bedsiders. Bedsiders are caregivers, often family, who sit at the patient's bedside, feeding, cleaning them, and running medical errands. Bedsiders are critical human infrastructure for the hospital and its staff. In our research, we heard repeatedly that bedsiders must have a "heart" for caregiving, taking on unremunerated and exhausting informal l…
Co-producing knowledge and care in team-based fieldwork in the Covid-19 era
In this article, we examine how the pandemic has led us to a dispersed and technologically mediated form of team-based fieldwork framed by an ethics of care. Covid-19 has changed the proximity of research teams and, thus, affected how teams are present for one another during challenging times, such as when researchers witness extreme suffering or death during a study. The four authors present reflections on collaborating on a caregiving study in …
A Heart for the Care
At the only standalone pediatric hospital in Zambia, patient wellbeing often rests in the hands of bedsiders. Bedsiders are caregivers, often family, who sit at the patient's bedside, feeding, cleaning them, and running medical errands. Bedsiders are critical human infrastructure for the hospital and its staff. In our research, we heard repeatedly that bedsiders must have a "heart" for caregiving, taking on unremunerated and exhausting informal l…
Co-producing knowledge and care in team-based fieldwork in the Covid-19 era
In this article, we examine how the pandemic has led us to a dispersed and technologically mediated form of team-based fieldwork framed by an ethics of care. Covid-19 has changed the proximity of research teams and, thus, affected how teams are present for one another during challenging times, such as when researchers witness extreme suffering or death during a study. The four authors present reflections on collaborating on a caregiving study in …
Co-producing knowledge and care in team-based fieldwork in the Covid-19 era
In this article, we examine how the pandemic has led us to a dispersed and technologically mediated form of team-based fieldwork framed by an ethics of care. Covid-19 has changed the proximity of research teams and, thus, affected how teams are present for one another during challenging times, such as when researchers witness extreme suffering or death during a study. The four authors present reflections on collaborating on a caregiving study in …
A Heart for the Care
At the only standalone pediatric hospital in Zambia, patient wellbeing often rests in the hands of bedsiders. Bedsiders are caregivers, often family, who sit at the patient's bedside, feeding, cleaning them, and running medical errands. Bedsiders are critical human infrastructure for the hospital and its staff. In our research, we heard repeatedly that bedsiders must have a "heart" for caregiving, taking on unremunerated and exhausting informal l…
Where there are no visitors
Integrating HPV vaccination into ART clinics
People living with HIV are more likely to have persistent HPV infections, increasing the risk of developing HPV-related cancers (e.g., cervical cancer). The HPV vaccination offers protection against such cancers. However, administering the HPV vaccination according to the recommended schedule for adolescents who are living with HIV holds challenges. ART clinics may provide opportune locations in places with high burden of HIV. In our 5-year study…
Medicine (3 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Hospital care (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Affect (linguistics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Cervical Cancer and HPV Research (1 works)