Caroline Masquillier
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 328281 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Caroline Masquillier |
| PRENOMES | Caroline |
| SOBRENOME | Masquillier |
| ASSINATURA | MASQUILLIER C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1748-5967 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Impact of a Household Intervention on ART Adherence and Household HIV Competency for People Living with HIV
Beyond the Diagnosis
This study utilizes the illness identity framework to investigate the incorporation of HIV into a sense of self and how varying degrees of integration influence key patient-reported outcomes. Using baseline data from the SINAKO Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial, we analysed responses from 316 adults living with HIV (PLHIV) attending 12 healthcare facilities in the Cape metropole, South Africa. Respondents completed assessments on four illness i…
Household-level factors and ART adherence among people living with HIV in Cape Town, South Africa
South Africa has the largest ART programme in the world. ART is provided within the context of the universal test and treat strategy. Sustained high levels of ART adherence are required to ensure viral suppression and prevent ART-drug resistance. However, poor ART adherence remains a challenge in South Africa. While much research has focused on individual - and community-level factors influencing adherence, household-level factors remain under-re…
Reasons for HIV testing and testing experiences among men testing for HIV in Cape Town, South Africa
6) (5-7 participants per group). Participants were purposively selected. Thematic analysis, guided by the conceptual framework of access to healthcare, was applied. Testing was influenced by (a) healthcare workers initiating HIV testing, which men generally accepted, (b) the availability of male-friendly and men's clinics, which were limited, but approachable and preferred over general facilities, and (c) men's engagement in sexual behaviours tha…
Understanding Health Perspectives and Values Among People Living in Socio-Economic Vulnerable Circumstances in Flanders
Background: Socio-economic status (SES) is a key health determinant affecting life expectancy, healthcare access, and chronic disease prevalence, yet the health values and needs of people living in socio-economic vulnerable circumstances are often overlooked in traditional health assessments—enforcing health inequities. Approach: This study aims to identify and understand the health perspectives, values, priorities and needs of people living in s…
Understanding challenges in healthcare access
The study reveals the complex and cumulative barriers to healthcare access for socio-economically vulnerable individuals, including competing priorities, system fragmentation, and cultural and language challenges. While informal social networks provide some support, they are insufficient to address systemic issues. Integrating these networks with formal community outreach initiatives could improve coordination and access to healthcare
Empowering communities through citizen science and participatory action research
Schistosomiasis is a water-related disease strongly linked with high-risk water and sanitation practices perpetuating disease transmission. In Uganda, despite health education and sensitisation efforts through communication campaigns by the Ministry of Health to reduce schistosomiasis prevalence, common risky practices still pose a challenge, especially among endemic communities. Here, we steered away from the conventional top-down approach to co…
Conducting co-creation for public health in low and middle-income countries
Including the Household
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence is crucial for health outcomes of people living with HIV (PLHIV), influenced by a complex interplay of individual, community, and household factors. This article focuses on the influence of household factors, as well as individual and community factors, on ART adherence among PLHIV in Cape Town who have recently initiated ART. Baseline data for a cluster-randomized controlled trial were collected from 316 PL…
Development and implementation of a community health literacy hub, ‘Health Kiosk'—A grassroots innovation
Being health literate is important to get sufficient health information, to navigate the health system, to access appropriate care and to be able to self-manage health. As such it is a key determinant of health. There is a need for innovative measures to improve health literacy among people living in socioeconomically vulnerable circumstances. Literature shows that this innovation needs to: have “low-threshold access” to health resources in a com…
Reciprocal coproduction as a basis for the diffusion of global health innovations
Global health reciprocal innovations originate in low-income and middle-income countries as well as high-income countries before their developers communicate about them with potential adopters in other countries as a transnational team. While communication technology has enabled a more rapid and broader sharing of information about innovations to prevent disease and improve health, innovations of various types have spread among countries, at all …
Global health reciprocal innovation to address mental health and well-being
Over the past two decades there have been major advances in the development of interventions promoting mental health and well-being in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), including delivery of care by non-specialist providers, incorporation of mobile technologies and development of multilevel community-based interventions. Growing inequities in mental health have led to calls to adopt similar strategies in high-income countries (HIC), learni…
Insights into barriers and facilitators in PrEP uptake and use among migrant men and transwomen who have sex with men in Belgium
An interplay of several underlying determinants and barriers impacts on PrEP uptake among migrant men and transwomen who have sex with men, illustrating a social gradient in access to PrEP. We need equitable access to the full spectrum of HIV prevention and care for all priority populations, including undocumented migrants. We recommend social and structural conditions that foster exercising these rights, including adapting PrEP service delivery,…
Community health workers improving access to healthcare for people living in vulnerable circumstances in Belgium
Belgium is below the European average with regard to equal access to health care. The group of people experiencing difficulties in accessing the health system in Belgium is growing. The COVID-19 pandemic hit the most vulnerable hardest and exacerbated existing social inequalities in access to care. Innovative ways are needed to make healthcare more accessible to these underserved vulnerable populations. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the impor…
Community health workers as bridge builders towards integrated care
In response to COVID-19 pandemic, which exacerbated the access to care challenges for people living in socio-economic vulnerable circumstances, the Belgian Federal Government gave the National Institute for Sickness and Disability Insurance (NIHDI) and the National InterMutualist College (Intermut) the task to introduce community health workers (CHWs) throughout Belgium. CHWs are “frontline public health worker[s] who [are] a trusted member of a …
Community health workers in Belgium
People with limited or no access to healthcare are often described as "hard to reach". But from their perspective, it is the health services that are hard to reach (Onyango et al. 2017). Innovative ways are needed to make health care more accessible to these underserved vulnerable populations. This video introduces a project in which community health workers improve access to care for people living in socially vulnerable conditions in ten Belgian…
Community health workers
OPINION article Front. Public Health, 06 December 2022Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion Volume 10 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1040539
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Community-Based ART Service Delivery for Key Populations in Sub-Saharan Africa
HIV positive key population (KP) often face health system and social barriers to HIV care. KP include sex workers, men who have sex with men, persons who inject drugs, transgender people, and people in prisons and other closed settings. Community-based ART service delivery (CBART) has the potential to increase access to antiretroviral treatment (ART) and enhance retention in care. This scoping review summarized the evidence on the effect of CBART…
Investigating the Influence of Socio-Demographic and Family Factors on Perceptions of Safety Among Conflict Displaced Children in Nigeria
Awareness of, Willingness to Take PrEP and Its Actual Use Among Belgian MSM at High Risk of HIV Infection
Households in HIV Care
Despite the Universal Test and Treat program (UTT) and widespread ART rollout, South Africa is still facing HIV prevention and treatment challenges, aggravated by human resource shortages in the health care sector. Individual- and community-level responses to these HIV-related challenges are increasingly being explored, for example, in community and home-based care. The role of the household as a crucial mediating social level has, however, large…
Reducing HIV- and TB-Stigma among healthcare co-workers in South Africa
Off-label prescribing of stimulant medication to students
Students' use of prescription stimulants to enhance study performance is increasingly under the spotlight. Medical guidelines discourage general practitioners (GPs) from prescribing stimulants to students without a diagnosis; yet a considerable proportion of students acquire them from GPs. Building on Eisenberg's theoretical framework on clinical decision-making and Conrad's sociological concept of biomedical enhancement, this study examined the …
Fighting stigma, promoting care
Fear of breaches in confidentiality and HIV-related stigma in the workplace have been shown to be primary concerns and potential barriers to uptake of HIV testing and treatment by health care workers (HCWs) at the Occupational Health Unit (OHU). In a context of human resource shortages, it is essential to investigate potential ways of reducing HIV-related stigma and promoting confidentially in the workplace. Using Structural Equation Modelling (S…
The Impact of Community Support Initiatives on the Stigma Experienced by People Living with HIV/Aids in South Africa
A peer adherence support intervention to improve the antiretroviral treatment outcomes of HIV patients in South Africa
On the Road to HIV/Aids Competence in the Household
When aiming to provide chronic disease care within the context of human resource shortages, we should not only consider the responsibility of the individual person living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) but also the capacity of the social environment to actively encourage a lifestyle that fosters health. In this social environment, extensive efforts are thus required to increase HIV/AIDS knowledge, reduce stigma, stimulate HIV testing, improve health care-…
The Importance of the Family
Qualitative research as theater
This autoethnographic paper reflects on the qualitative fieldwork I conducted in a township on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. By exploring how a metaphor can assist in autoethnographic reflection, I aim to gain insight into how data can best be collected in deprived informal settlements characterized by high crime rates. This autoethnographic paper draws on the autobiographical materials of the researcher as primary data. This self-ref…
Qualitative research as theater
This autoethnographic paper reflects on the qualitative fieldwork I conducted in a township on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. By exploring how a metaphor can assist in autoethnographic reflection, I aim to gain insight into how data can best be collected in deprived informal settlements characterized by high crime rates. This autoethnographic paper draws on the autobiographical materials of the researcher as primary data. This self-ref…
Fighting stigma, promoting care
Fear of breaches in confidentiality and HIV-related stigma in the workplace have been shown to be primary concerns and potential barriers to uptake of HIV testing and treatment by health care workers (HCWs) at the Occupational Health Unit (OHU). In a context of human resource shortages, it is essential to investigate potential ways of reducing HIV-related stigma and promoting confidentially in the workplace. Using Structural Equation Modelling (S…
Households in HIV Care
Despite the Universal Test and Treat program (UTT) and widespread ART rollout, South Africa is still facing HIV prevention and treatment challenges, aggravated by human resource shortages in the health care sector. Individual- and community-level responses to these HIV-related challenges are increasingly being explored, for example, in community and home-based care. The role of the household as a crucial mediating social level has, however, large…
Reducing HIV- and TB-Stigma among healthcare co-workers in South Africa
Off-label prescribing of stimulant medication to students
Students' use of prescription stimulants to enhance study performance is increasingly under the spotlight. Medical guidelines discourage general practitioners (GPs) from prescribing stimulants to students without a diagnosis; yet a considerable proportion of students acquire them from GPs. Building on Eisenberg's theoretical framework on clinical decision-making and Conrad's sociological concept of biomedical enhancement, this study examined the …
Investigating the Influence of Socio-Demographic and Family Factors on Perceptions of Safety Among Conflict Displaced Children in Nigeria
Awareness of, Willingness to Take PrEP and Its Actual Use Among Belgian MSM at High Risk of HIV Infection
Community health workers
OPINION article Front. Public Health, 06 December 2022Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion Volume 10 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1040539
Stay-at-Home
Community-Based ART Service Delivery for Key Populations in Sub-Saharan Africa
HIV positive key population (KP) often face health system and social barriers to HIV care. KP include sex workers, men who have sex with men, persons who inject drugs, transgender people, and people in prisons and other closed settings. Community-based ART service delivery (CBART) has the potential to increase access to antiretroviral treatment (ART) and enhance retention in care. This scoping review summarized the evidence on the effect of CBART…
Development and implementation of a community health literacy hub, ‘Health Kiosk'—A grassroots innovation
Being health literate is important to get sufficient health information, to navigate the health system, to access appropriate care and to be able to self-manage health. As such it is a key determinant of health. There is a need for innovative measures to improve health literacy among people living in socioeconomically vulnerable circumstances. Literature shows that this innovation needs to: have “low-threshold access” to health resources in a com…
Reciprocal coproduction as a basis for the diffusion of global health innovations
Global health reciprocal innovations originate in low-income and middle-income countries as well as high-income countries before their developers communicate about them with potential adopters in other countries as a transnational team. While communication technology has enabled a more rapid and broader sharing of information about innovations to prevent disease and improve health, innovations of various types have spread among countries, at all …
Global health reciprocal innovation to address mental health and well-being
Over the past two decades there have been major advances in the development of interventions promoting mental health and well-being in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), including delivery of care by non-specialist providers, incorporation of mobile technologies and development of multilevel community-based interventions. Growing inequities in mental health have led to calls to adopt similar strategies in high-income countries (HIC), learni…
Insights into barriers and facilitators in PrEP uptake and use among migrant men and transwomen who have sex with men in Belgium
An interplay of several underlying determinants and barriers impacts on PrEP uptake among migrant men and transwomen who have sex with men, illustrating a social gradient in access to PrEP. We need equitable access to the full spectrum of HIV prevention and care for all priority populations, including undocumented migrants. We recommend social and structural conditions that foster exercising these rights, including adapting PrEP service delivery,…
Community health workers improving access to healthcare for people living in vulnerable circumstances in Belgium
Belgium is below the European average with regard to equal access to health care. The group of people experiencing difficulties in accessing the health system in Belgium is growing. The COVID-19 pandemic hit the most vulnerable hardest and exacerbated existing social inequalities in access to care. Innovative ways are needed to make healthcare more accessible to these underserved vulnerable populations. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the impor…
Community health workers as bridge builders towards integrated care
In response to COVID-19 pandemic, which exacerbated the access to care challenges for people living in socio-economic vulnerable circumstances, the Belgian Federal Government gave the National Institute for Sickness and Disability Insurance (NIHDI) and the National InterMutualist College (Intermut) the task to introduce community health workers (CHWs) throughout Belgium. CHWs are “frontline public health worker[s] who [are] a trusted member of a …
Community health workers in Belgium
People with limited or no access to healthcare are often described as "hard to reach". But from their perspective, it is the health services that are hard to reach (Onyango et al. 2017). Innovative ways are needed to make health care more accessible to these underserved vulnerable populations. This video introduces a project in which community health workers improve access to care for people living in socially vulnerable conditions in ten Belgian…
Empowering communities through citizen science and participatory action research
Schistosomiasis is a water-related disease strongly linked with high-risk water and sanitation practices perpetuating disease transmission. In Uganda, despite health education and sensitisation efforts through communication campaigns by the Ministry of Health to reduce schistosomiasis prevalence, common risky practices still pose a challenge, especially among endemic communities. Here, we steered away from the conventional top-down approach to co…
Conducting co-creation for public health in low and middle-income countries
Including the Household
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence is crucial for health outcomes of people living with HIV (PLHIV), influenced by a complex interplay of individual, community, and household factors. This article focuses on the influence of household factors, as well as individual and community factors, on ART adherence among PLHIV in Cape Town who have recently initiated ART. Baseline data for a cluster-randomized controlled trial were collected from 316 PL…
Medicine (17 obras) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (15 obras) · Public health (15 obras) · Nursing (14 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Health care (11 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Family medicine (9 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (8 obras)