Angela R Bazzi
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4018097 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Angela R Bazzi |
| PRENOMES | Angela R |
| SOBRENOME | Bazzi |
| ASSINATURA | BAZZI A R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6828-1919 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Economic insecurity, access to menstrual materials, and sexual coercion
Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) is a critical but often overlooked component of adolescent girls’ health. Limited access to financial resources for purchasing menstrual materials is a key barrier to adequate MHM. Few studies have examined how adolescent girls obtain materials, how economic insecurity may affect MHM, and whether this promotes reliance on male partners for financial means to purchase materials. Prior research has linked dependen…
Persistent HIV Transmission Misconceptions Among People Who Inject Drugs in Massachusetts, USA
Despite the widespread success of combination antiretroviral therapy in reducing overall HIV morbidity and mortality, people who inject drugs (PWID) continue to experience elevated risk of infection and suboptimal care outcomes. Addressing knowledge gaps related to HIV acquisition and transmission is essential for reducing incident cases of HIV. We assessed HIV transmission misconceptions (e.g., HIV can be transmitted through sharing cigarettes, …
The Health Toll of Encampment Sweeps
Integration of safer smoking equipment in U.S. syringe services programs
Implementation of safer smoking equipment represents a critical evolution in harm reduction programming that may engage underserved communities in the range of evidence-based prevention services offered by SSPs. Flexible funding and supportive implementation climates are needed to support SSPs in providing this impactful service
Motivational interviewing to increase drug checking and reduce overdose rates among people who use drugs
ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT06855836. Registered February 28, 2025. https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06855836?term=NCT06855836/rank=1
Promises and pitfalls of safer smoking supply distribution in the United States
With rising prevalence of smoking unregulated drugs across the United States, there is a need for more community-based distribution of safer smoking supplies (e.g., glass pipes) to reduce health harms for people who smoke drugs. While smoking supplies are increasingly offered through harm reduction organizations (HROs), which have predominantly focused on addressing injection-related harms, little is known about HROs’ experiences implementing thi…
Building connection
To better engage survivors, overdose response processes should prioritize survivors' physical and emotional comfort and seek to build trust by utilizing person-centered, trauma-informed, and non-stigmatizing approaches
Occupational Stress and Substance Use-Related Stigma Among Criminal Attorneys
Problematic substance use is a national crisis in the United States. While criminalization of substance use places the criminal legal system (CLS) on the front lines of this crisis, little is known about how this impacts the CLS workforce. From October 2022 to March 2023, informed by the Health Stigma and Discrimination Framework, we conducted qualitative interviews with practicing criminal attorneys using a semi-structured interview guide focuse…
A randomized clinical trial testing a health literacy intervention to reduce disparities in access to care among Justice-Impacted Adults (JIA)
Lifetime HIV testing among three samples of adults with histories of incarceration in Southern California
Justice-impacted persons may inconsistently access HIV testing. This cross-sectional secondary analysis investigates lifetime HIV testing prevalence among adults with prior histories of incarceration in Southern California, United States, participating in health-focused programming (n = 3 studies). Self-reported demographic and lifetime HIV testing data were collected between 2017–2023; descriptive analyses were conducted. Across the three sample…
Long-acting Injectable PrEP Interest and General PrEP Awareness among People who Inject Drugs in the San Diego-Tijuana Border Metroplex
A mixed methods study to inform fatal overdose prevention in San Diego, California
“I’ve been 95% safe”
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) decreases human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acquisition among persons who inject drugs (PWID); however, its uptake has been suboptimal. We explored HIV risk perceptions and PrEP interest among drug detoxification center patients in the context of the ongoing opioid overdose epidemic. We conducted in-depth interviews of patients (n = 24) and professional key informants (n = 10 physicians, case managers, nurses, and…
Study protocol for an efficacy trial of the “PrEP for Health” intervention to increase HIV PrEP use among people who inject drugs
ClinicalTrials.gov number NCT04430257, registered June 12, 2020
PrEP disclosure and discussions within social networks of people who inject drugs experiencing homelessness
Findings highlight the significance of PrEP disclosure and discussions within the social networks of PWID experiencing homelessness, suggesting a need for continued social network and intervention research-particularly to establish the feasibility and acceptability of peer-based interventions for promoting PrEP-with this marginalized population
Perspectives and recommendations of opioid overdose survivors experiencing unsheltered homelessness on housing, overdose, and substance use treatment in Boston, MA
A cross-sectional study of factors associated with Covid-19 testing among people who inject drugs
We identified several factors independently associated with COVID-19 testing and multiple touchpoints where COVID-19 testing could be scaled up for PWID, such as SUD treatment programs and syringe service programs. Integrated health services are needed to improve access to rapid, free COVID-19 testing in this vulnerable population
Supervised Injection Facilities as Harm Reduction
Implementing harm reduction in non-urban communities affected by opioids and polysubstance use
Stronger Together
Towards equity for people who inject drugs in HIV prevention drug trials
You need money to get high, and that's the easiest and fastest way
Delivering Preexposure Prophylaxis to People Who Use Drugs and Experience Homelessness, Boston, MA, 2018–2020
Despite high need, HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) utilization among people who use drugs (PWUD) remains low. Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program implemented an innovative “low-threshold” PrEP Program for PWUD experiencing homelessness in Boston, Massachusetts. From October 1, 2018 to February 29, 2020, 239 clients were linked to PrEP services, and 152 were prescribed PrEP (mean = 8.9/month), over twice the number of PrEP prescriptions…
Patterns, contexts, and motivations for polysubstance use among people who inject drugs in non-urban settings in the U.S. Northeast
Strategies used by people who inject drugs to avoid stigma in healthcare settings
Hope Amidst Horror
Sensationalistic media coverage has fueled stereotypes of the Mexican border city of Tijuana as a violent battleground of the global drug war. While the drug war shapes health and social harms in profoundly public ways, less visible are the experiences and practices of hope that forge communities of care and represent more private responses to this crisis. In this article, we draw on ethnographic fieldwork and photo elicitation with female sex wo…
Love, Trust, and HIV Risk Among Female Sex Workers and Their Intimate Male Partners
Objectives. We examined correlates of love and trust among female sex workers and their noncommercial male partners along the Mexico–US border. Methods. From 2011 to 2012, 322 partners in Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, completed assessments of love and trust. Cross-sectional dyadic regression analyses identified associations of relationship characteristics and HIV risk behaviors with love and trust. Results. Within 161 couples, love and trust…
Sex Work, Heroin Injection, and HIV Risk in Tijuana
The relationships between female sex workers and their noncommercial male partners are typically viewed as sites of HIV risk rather than meaningful unions. This ethnographic case study presents a nuanced portrayal of the relationship between Cindy and Beto, a female sex worker who injects drugs and her intimate, noncommercial partner who live in Tijuana, Mexico. On the basis of ethnographic research in Tijuana and our long-term involvement in a p…
Delivering Preexposure Prophylaxis to People Who Use Drugs and Experience Homelessness, Boston, MA, 2018–2020
Despite high need, HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) utilization among people who use drugs (PWUD) remains low. Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program implemented an innovative “low-threshold” PrEP Program for PWUD experiencing homelessness in Boston, Massachusetts. From October 1, 2018 to February 29, 2020, 239 clients were linked to PrEP services, and 152 were prescribed PrEP (mean = 8.9/month), over twice the number of PrEP prescriptions…
A Social Work Approach to Policy
The substantial disparities in health and poorer outcomes in the United States relative to peer nations suggest the need to refocus health policy. Through direct contact with the most vulnerable segments of the population, social workers have developed an approach to policy that recognizes the importance of the social environment, the value of social relationships, and the significance of value-driven policymaking. This approach could be used to …
Adherence to Mammography Screening Guidelines Among Transgender Persons and Sexual Minority Women
We used retrospective (2012–2013) chart review to examine breast cancer screening among transgender persons and sexual minority women (n = 1263) attending an urban community health center in Massachusetts. Transgender were less likely than cisgender patients and bisexuals were less likely than heterosexuals and lesbians to adhere to mammography screening guidelines (respectively, adjusted odds ratios = 0.53 and 0.56; 95% confidence intervals = 0.…
Breast Cancer Risk in Sexual Minority Women during Routine Screening at an Urban LGBT Health Center
Love, Trust, and HIV Risk Among Female Sex Workers and Their Intimate Male Partners
Objectives. We examined correlates of love and trust among female sex workers and their noncommercial male partners along the Mexico–US border. Methods. From 2011 to 2012, 322 partners in Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, completed assessments of love and trust. Cross-sectional dyadic regression analyses identified associations of relationship characteristics and HIV risk behaviors with love and trust. Results. Within 161 couples, love and trust…
Adherence to Mammography Screening Guidelines Among Transgender Persons and Sexual Minority Women
We used retrospective (2012–2013) chart review to examine breast cancer screening among transgender persons and sexual minority women (n = 1263) attending an urban community health center in Massachusetts. Transgender were less likely than cisgender patients and bisexuals were less likely than heterosexuals and lesbians to adhere to mammography screening guidelines (respectively, adjusted odds ratios = 0.53 and 0.56; 95% confidence intervals = 0.…
Sex Work, Heroin Injection, and HIV Risk in Tijuana
The relationships between female sex workers and their noncommercial male partners are typically viewed as sites of HIV risk rather than meaningful unions. This ethnographic case study presents a nuanced portrayal of the relationship between Cindy and Beto, a female sex worker who injects drugs and her intimate, noncommercial partner who live in Tijuana, Mexico. On the basis of ethnographic research in Tijuana and our long-term involvement in a p…
Designing a sexual network study of men who have sex with other men
Black and Latino gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) have higher rates of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) than their White counterparts. Differences in sexual networks have been hypothesized to play an important role in the observed racial/ethnic disparities in risk. However, concerns about the acceptability and feasibility of conducting sociocentric sexual network studies have left a dearth of data on th…
A Social Work Approach to Policy
The substantial disparities in health and poorer outcomes in the United States relative to peer nations suggest the need to refocus health policy. Through direct contact with the most vulnerable segments of the population, social workers have developed an approach to policy that recognizes the importance of the social environment, the value of social relationships, and the significance of value-driven policymaking. This approach could be used to …
Hope Amidst Horror
Sensationalistic media coverage has fueled stereotypes of the Mexican border city of Tijuana as a violent battleground of the global drug war. While the drug war shapes health and social harms in profoundly public ways, less visible are the experiences and practices of hope that forge communities of care and represent more private responses to this crisis. In this article, we draw on ethnographic fieldwork and photo elicitation with female sex wo…
Perspectives on biomedical HIV prevention options among women who inject drugs in Kenya
Due to heightened vulnerability to HIV from frequent engagement in sex work and overlapping drug-using and sexual networks, women who inject drugs should be a high priority population for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and other biomedical HIV prevention tools. Kenya is one of the first African countries to approve oral PrEP for HIV prevention among "key populations," including people who inject drugs and sex workers. The objective of this study…
He’s not my pimp’
Female sex work is often perceived as women being controlled by men. We used surveys and qualitative interviews with female sex workers and their intimate partners in two Northern Mexico cities to examine couples' own perceptions of their relationships and male partners' involvement in sex work. Among 214 couples, the median age was 34 and relationship duration was approximately 3 years. Only 10 women in the survey reported having a pimp, and the…
Negotiating sexual safety in the era of biomedical HIV prevention
Up to two-thirds of new cases of HIV transmission between gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in the USA are attributed to primary relationships. Understanding the relationship dynamics and sexual agreements of male-male couples can provide insight into HIV transmission patterns and prevention needs in this population. The daily use of antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is highly effective in preventing HIV, but its nego…
Intimate Partner Violence Among Female Sex Workers and Their Noncommercial Male Partners in Mexico
Utilizing mixed methods, we examined intimate partner violence (IPV) behaviors among 428 female sex workers (FSWs) who use drugs and their noncommercial male partners in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Half of all participants reported perpetrating and experiencing at least one type of IPV behavior in the past year. In interviews, drug use emerged as an important theme associated with IPV behaviors, and we found men and women differed in their…
Strategies used by people who inject drugs to avoid stigma in healthcare settings
A missing perspective
The efficacy of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention has been established among people who inject drugs (PWID). HIV uninfected, at risk PWID, could likely benefit from long-acting injectable formulations of PrEP ("LAI-PrEP"); however, its acceptability in this population has not been previously documented. Thirty-three HIV-uninfected PWID in the U.S. Northeast completed an in-depth interview regarding perceived acceptability of LAI-…
Patterns, contexts, and motivations for polysubstance use among people who inject drugs in non-urban settings in the U.S. Northeast
Supervised Injection Facilities as Harm Reduction
Implementing harm reduction in non-urban communities affected by opioids and polysubstance use
Stronger Together
Towards equity for people who inject drugs in HIV prevention drug trials
You need money to get high, and that's the easiest and fastest way
Delivering Preexposure Prophylaxis to People Who Use Drugs and Experience Homelessness, Boston, MA, 2018–2020
Despite high need, HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) utilization among people who use drugs (PWUD) remains low. Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program implemented an innovative “low-threshold” PrEP Program for PWUD experiencing homelessness in Boston, Massachusetts. From October 1, 2018 to February 29, 2020, 239 clients were linked to PrEP services, and 152 were prescribed PrEP (mean = 8.9/month), over twice the number of PrEP prescriptions…
A cross-sectional study of factors associated with Covid-19 testing among people who inject drugs
We identified several factors independently associated with COVID-19 testing and multiple touchpoints where COVID-19 testing could be scaled up for PWID, such as SUD treatment programs and syringe service programs. Integrated health services are needed to improve access to rapid, free COVID-19 testing in this vulnerable population
“I’ve been 95% safe”
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) decreases human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acquisition among persons who inject drugs (PWID); however, its uptake has been suboptimal. We explored HIV risk perceptions and PrEP interest among drug detoxification center patients in the context of the ongoing opioid overdose epidemic. We conducted in-depth interviews of patients (n = 24) and professional key informants (n = 10 physicians, case managers, nurses, and…
Study protocol for an efficacy trial of the “PrEP for Health” intervention to increase HIV PrEP use among people who inject drugs
ClinicalTrials.gov number NCT04430257, registered June 12, 2020
PrEP disclosure and discussions within social networks of people who inject drugs experiencing homelessness
Findings highlight the significance of PrEP disclosure and discussions within the social networks of PWID experiencing homelessness, suggesting a need for continued social network and intervention research-particularly to establish the feasibility and acceptability of peer-based interventions for promoting PrEP-with this marginalized population
Perspectives and recommendations of opioid overdose survivors experiencing unsheltered homelessness on housing, overdose, and substance use treatment in Boston, MA
Medicine (29 obras) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (27 obras) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (17 obras) · Family medicine (16 obras) · Public health (16 obras) · Psychology (15 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Nursing (13 obras) · Psychiatry (12 obras) · Environmental health (11 obras)