Ruthy Boli-Neo

Datos Biográficos

ID4897103
NOMBRERuthy Boli-Neo
NOMBRESRuthy
APELLIDOBoli-Neo
FIRMABOLI-NEO R
AFILIACIONESPapua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research
ORCID0000-0002-9175-5251
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2018
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • This Vaccine is Not for Us’

    Open AccessA Persson, Ruthy Boli-Neo et al.ARTICLECanberra Anthropology2026Referencias: 43

    Vaccine hesitancy is considered a growing problem worldwide. In Papua New Guinea, the vaccine for the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was met with extraordinary fear and antipathy, resulting in one of the world’s lowest rates of COVID-19 vaccination. Not only were there concerns about the vaccine’s safety, it was also perceived as a grave threat to sovereignty and religious faith. We draw on 131 qualitative interviews with health service clie…

  • Promises and Tensions

    Open AccessSujith Kumar Prankumar, Ruthy Boli-Neo et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology2026Referencias: 40

    Using a sociomaterial perspective based on interviews with health workers, we examine how clinic-based HIV viral load testing and early infant diagnosis technologies reshape health care realities in Papua New Guinea. The use of such technologies redefine professional roles and health care experiences by empowering health workers to translate biomedical data into client-centered clinical management, while also contributing systemic tensions, such …

  • Stakeholder views on the relationship between human rights and the law in addressing the HIV epidemic in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessB Hegarty, Ruthy Boli-Neo et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2024

    Community activists, policymakers and researchers have long identified human rights as central to addressing the HIV epidemic. Over the past 10 years, efforts to incorporate human rights into the HIV response have focused on reforming laws which criminalise sex work and male-to-male sex. Laws criminalising sex work and male-to-male sex drive communities underground, making HIV prevention, testing, and treatment efforts more difficult. This articl…

  • Memories of schooling amongst trans women and sexuality diverse men in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessHerick Aeno, Padmini Iyer et al.ARTICLEGender and Education2024Referencias: 6

    Drawing from a life history study we examine memories and experience of schooling in Papua New Guinea among 45 trans women and sexuality diverse men. While participants reported regulating their expression of gender and sexuality to 'fit in' and avoid physical and verbal abuse at school, others felt able and supported to express their gender and sexuality diversity more freely beyond stereotypical norms. Schools provided a varietyof experience fo…

  • Making meaning out of objects

    Ruthy Boli-Neo, Jamee Newland et al.CHAPTERSex and Gender in the Pacific2023

    Objects in our everyday lives range from the mundane to the highly significant and can be understood and interpreted in various ways. In a Pacific society such as Papua New Guinea, making meaning out of objects and storytelling provides great insight into (our) culture. However, much of the attention given to material culture historically and culturally in Papua New Guinea is directed at documenting objects from the past, and often the objects po…

  • A socio-ecological analysis of factors influencing HIV treatment initiation and adherence among key populations in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessElke Mitchell, Avi J Hakim et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Exploring health promotion messages that highlight the positive health impacts of early treatment initiation and adherence; providing client-friendly services and community-based treatment initiation and supply; and rolling out HIV viral load testing across the country could improve health outcomes for these key populations

  • Practical justice as an innovative approach to addressing inequalities facing gender and sexually diverse people

    Angela Kelly-Hanku, Peter Aggleton et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2020

    Cultural values and practices influence many aspects of sexual and reproductive health and rights - from access to and quality of health education and services, to gender roles and responsibilities, to family planning and sexual freedoms. Culture is frequently marginalised in epidemiologically driven analyses of sexual and reproductive health and rights yet remains central to the ways in which inequalities within these fields manifest themselves …

  • Developing a culturally appropriate illustrated tool for the self-collection of anorectal specimens for the testing of sexually transmitted infections

    Open AccessAngela Kelly-Hanku, Stephen Bell et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    This paper describes the development of a culturally and linguistically appropriate tool for a biomedical and clinical intervention with key populations in PNG based around self-collection of anorectal specimens for molecular STI testing. The final tools have been used to facilitate the self-collection of anorectal specimens following a clear clinical protocol during a large bio-behavioural survey in PNG

  • Acceptability of testing for anorectal sexually transmitted infections and self-collected anal swabs in female sex workers, men who have sex with men and transgender women in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessStephen Bell, Johanna Wapling et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    This qualitative research is the first study of acceptability of anorectal STI testing and specimen self-collection procedures in PNG, and Pacific Asia more broadly. Our qualitative findings show support for anorectal STI testing including the use of self-collected swabs among key populations in PNG. Study findings informed the inclusion of anorectal STI testing in a large bio-behavioural survey to be used to estimate anorectal STI prevalence amo…