Ligia Kerr

Dados Biográficos

ID3670488
NOMELigia Kerr
PRENOMESLigia
SOBRENOMEKerr
ASSINATURAKERR L
AFILIAÇÕESUniversidade Federal do Ceará
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES2
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2014
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Quality Assessment Indicators for Well-Child Care in Primary Health Care

    Open AccessPriscila Ribas Farias Costa, Márcia Rocha Oliseski et al.ARTICLEChildren2026

    Background/Objectives: Well-child care plays a critical role in promoting child health and monitoring growth and development within Primary Health Care (PHC), in line with international frameworks such as the WHO Global Strategy and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the absence of standardized quality indicators limits comparability across studies and hinders continuous improvement worldwide. This study aimed to map and analyz…

  • Associations of municipality-level income and racial segregation with individual-level tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Brazil

    Open AccessQanisha Hall, José Firmino De Sousa Filho et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2025Citada por: 1Referências: 32

    Background Residential segregation is considered a social determinant of health, but there is limited evidence of its impact on tuberculosis (TB). We investigated the associations between municipality-level income and racial segregation and TB treatment outcomes in Brazil. Methods We studied nationwide registries of new TB cases between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2019. TB treatment was dichotomised as unfavourable (ie, loss to follow-up, modi…

  • Covid-19 among health care workers in Brazil

    Open AccessLigia Regina Sansigolo Kerr, Ligia Kerr et al.ARTICLERevista de Saúde Pública2025

    OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence and disparities of COVID-19 among health care workers in Brazil. METHODS: A survey was conducted among health care workers in five Brazilian cities. Disparities in the prevalence of COVID-19 were analyzed by professional category and region (North/Northeast versus South/Southeast). RESULTS: The sample was composed of 2,499 health care workers: 601 (24.1%) nursing technicians, 1,095 (43.8%) registered nurses,…

  • Prevalence and Characteristics of Children and Adolescents Engaged in Commercial Sex in the Recife Metropolitan Area, Pernambuco, Brazil

    Ana Maria De Brito, Marto Leal et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Trafficking2025Referências: 2

  • HIV testing inside Brazilian female prisons

    Ligia Regina Sansigolo Kerr, Ligia Kerr et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2023

    This study aimed to identify the prevalence of women in prisons who have already had an HIV test inside prison and the factors associated with this test. A cross-sectional study was carried out with 1327 women in 15 prisons in 9 states in Brazil. Almost 60% (95% CI: 57.8-63.7) of women have already been tested for HIV in prison. The factors associated with this HIV test were age ≥41 years (OR = 1.9; 95% CI = 1.2-2.9), highest level of education (…

  • HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men in Brazil

    Open AccessLigia Regina Sansigolo Kerr, Ligia Kerr et al.ARTICLEMedicine2018

    This paper reports human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) prevalence in the 2nd National Biological and Behavioral Surveillance Survey (BBSS) among men who have sex with men (MSM) in 12 cities in Brazil using respondent-driven sampling (RDS).Following formative research, RDS was applied in 12 cities in the 5 macroregions of Brazil between June and December 2016 to recruit MSM for BBSS. The target sample size was 350 per city. Five to 6 seeds were in…

  • Incentives and barriers to HIV testing among female sex workers in Ceará

    Open AccessTelma Alves Martins, Ligia Regina Sansigolo Kerr et al.ARTICLERevista de Saúde Pública2018

    OBJECTIVE: Estimating HIV prevalence and describing the incentives and barriers for HIV testing among female sex workers. METHODS: This cross-sectional study recruited 402 women aged 18 years or older, residing in Fortaleza, state of Ceará, Brazil, who reported having had sexual intercourse in exchange for money in last four months. The sample was recruited using Respondent Driven Sampling, between August and November 2010. RESULTS: The 84.1% of …

  • Mind the gap

    Open AccessSarah Maccarthy, Sari L Reisner et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2016Citada por: 1Referências: 14

    Sampling strategies such as respondent-driven sampling (RDS) and time-location sampling (TLS) offer unique opportunities to access key populations such as men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women. Limited work has assessed implementation challenges of these methods. Overcoming implementation challenges can improve research quality and increase uptake of HIV services among key populations. Drawing from studies using RDS in Brazil and …

  • What's pregnancy got to do with it? Late presentation to HIV/Aids services in Northeastern Brazil

    Ines Dourado, Sarah Maccarthy et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2014

    Despite the known benefits of early treatment initiation for individual morbidity and mortality, as well as for reducing the risk of transmission, late presentation (LP) to HIV/AIDS services remains a major concern in many countries. There is little information on LP from middle- and low-income countries and studies that do evaluate LP commonly disaggregate data by sex. It is rare, however, for researchers to further disaggregate the data by preg…