Joshua Kimani

Dados Biográficos

ID4017725
NOMEJoshua Kimani
PRENOMESJoshua
SOBRENOMEKimani
ASSINATURAKIMANI J
AFILIAÇÕESPartners for Health and Development in Africa
ORCID0000-0003-2858-5007
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS45
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES2
TOTAL COMO AUTOR45
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2010
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
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  • Sexual Behaviors and Psychosocial Health Among Men Who Have Sex with Men with and without Female Partners in Kenya

    Open AccessK Vu, Supriya D Mehta et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Sex Research2026

    Globally, men who have sex with men (MSM) face significant sexual stigma and are at disproportionate risk of HIV and STIs. This cross-sectional study examined differences in HIV/STI-associated psychosocial characteristics and sexual behaviors among men who have sex with both men and women (MSMW) and men who have sex with men exclusively (MSME) in Kenya. MSM were categorized as either MSMW or MSME based on the reported sex of recent sexual partner…

  • Longitudinal assessment of changes in hair cortisol levels and associations with violence, poor mental health and harmful substance use among female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya

    Open AccessMamtuti Panneh, Tara Beattie et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Female sex workers (FSWs) in sub-Saharan Africa commonly experience violence, mental health problems, and harmful substance use. Stressful life events can harm the functioning of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, serving as a pathway to increased poor health, including HIV susceptibility through cortisol levels. In this paper, we examine changes in hair cortisol concentration (HCC) levels and associations with experiences of violence…

  • Experiences and self-care efforts among female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya, during Covid-19

    Open AccessEmily Nyariki, Mamtuti Panneh et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences & Humanities Open2025

    Although the COVID-19 measures were aimed at the public good, they resulted in massive economic disruptions. We explored female sex workers’ (FSWs) experiences and self-care efforts following the deployment of COVID-19 containment measures in Nairobi, Kenya. Forty-seven women drawn from 1003 FSWs enrolled in the Maisha Fiti Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Study participated. An in-depth interview tool was used to capture FSW’ experiences and coping st…

  • Forced vaginal sex and genital immune correlates of HIV risk

    Open AccessJames Pollock, Mary Kungu et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BACKGROUND: The likelihood of HIV acquisition is increased following forced vaginal sex. This relates in part to epidemiological and behavioural factors; however, the biological effects of forced vaginal sex, including impacts on immune parameters linked to HIV susceptibility, are poorly understood. Here, we examine biological mediators of HIV susceptibility among female sex workers (FSWs) in Nairobi, Kenya, who recently experienced forced vagina…

  • Trends in HIV Incidence among Female Sex Workers and Men who Have Sex with Men in Nairobi, Kenya, 2009–2021

    Open AccessHellen Babu, Gilmour et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2025

  • Integrating Anogenital Health Care Into HIV Programs for Queer Men in Kenya

    Open AccessLisa Lazarus, Matthew Thomann et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025Referências: 3

    Amid shifting political and funding landscapes for HIV prevention, how do we recognize the localized knowledges and skills accumulated at the grassroots, and which undergird community-led health service delivery for "key populations"? Lateralization advances an alternative implementation approach for a new generation of HIV programs that not only meets the global health policy direction of "integrative health" but also centres community insights …

  • Vulnerability Revisited

    Open AccessDoris Schroeder, Kate Chatfield et al.BOOKVulnerability Revisited2024

    Open access. This open-access book discusses vulnerability and the protection-inclusion dilemma of including those who suffer from serious poverty, severe stigma, and structural violence in research. Co-written with representatives from indigenous peoples in South Africa and sex workers in Nairobi, the authors come down firmly on the side of inclusion. In the spirit of leaving no one behind in research, the team experimented with data collection …

  • Research ethics preparedness during outbreaks and public health emergencies

    Open AccessRaffaella Ravinetto, Joyce Adhiambo et al.ARTICLEResearch Ethics2024

    Research represents an essential component of the response to infectious disease outbreaks and to other public health emergencies, whether they are localised, of international concern, or global. Research conducted in such contexts also comes with particular ethics challenges, the awareness of which has significantly grown following the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the Zika outbreak in Latin America and the COVID-19 pandemic. These challenges i…

  • Factors Associated with Usage of Oral-PrEP among Female Sex Workers in Nairobi, Kenya, Assessed by Self-Report and a Point-of-Care Urine Tenofovir Immunoassay

    Open AccessPooja Shah, Matthew A Spinelli et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2024

    Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is highly effective at reducing HIV acquisition. We aimed to estimate usage of oral-PrEP, and factors associated with adherence among female sex workers (FSWs) in Nairobi, Kenya, using a novel point-of-care urine tenofovir lateral flow assay (LFA). The Maisha Fiti study randomly selected FSWs from Sex Worker Outreach Program clinics in Nairobi. Data were collected from 1003 FSWs from June-October 2019, including su…

  • The epidemiology of HIV infection among female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya

    Open AccessTara Beattie, Wendy Adhiambo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    High HIV prevalence among female sex workers (FSWs) is heavily influenced by structural determinants (e.g. criminalisation of sex work; violence) and significant life events (e.g. orphanhood, teenage pregnancy). This study aims to understand the epidemiology of HIV among FSWs in Nairobi, Kenya using a structural determinants and life-course perspective. Baseline cross-sectional survey data were collected June–December 2019 for the Maisha Fiti stu…

  • Are violence, harmful alcohol/substance use and poor mental health associated with increased genital inflammation

    Open AccessTara Beattie, James Pollock et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Violence, alcohol use, substance use and poor mental health have been linked with increased HIV acquisition risk, and genital inflammation enhances HIV susceptibility. We examined whether past 6 month experience of these exposures was associated with increased genital inflammation, thereby providing a biological link between these exposures and HIV acquisition risk. The Maisha Fiti study was a longitudinal mixed-methods study of female sex worker…

  • Toward improving anal health care among GBMSM in Kenya

    Open AccessSamuel Anyula Gorigo, Collins J Owek et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2024

    We aimed to illuminate the challenges of treating anal diseases among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) in a homophobic climate amid resource constraints. Building on a long-term Kenyan-Canadian collaboration, an anal healthcare intervention study, known as the WEMAH Project, was initiated in January 2022. The initial collaborative work strengthened existing anal health services provided at a community-based clinic serving…

  • Community Insights in Phylogenetic HIV Research

    Open AccessFrançois Cholette, Lisa Lazarus et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2023

    Inferring HIV transmission networks from HIV sequences is gaining popularity in the field of HIV molecular epidemiology. However, HIV sequences are often analyzed at distance from those affected by HIV epidemics, namely without the involvement of communities most affected by HIV. These remote analyses often mean that knowledge is generated in absence of lived experiences and socio-economic realities that could inform the ethical application of ne…

  • Surviving pandemic control measures

    Open AccessHellen Babu, Rhoda Kabuti et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2023

    At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kenya Ministry of Health instituted movement cessation measures and limits on face-to-face meetings. We explore the ways in which female sex workers (FSWs) in Nairobi were affected by the COVID-19 control measures and the ways they coped with the hardships. Forty-seven women were randomly sampled from the Maisha Fiti study, a longitudinal study of 1003 FSWs accessing sexual reproductive health servic…

  • Conducting Violence and Mental Health Research with Female Sex Workers during the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessMary Kungu, Mary Kung’u et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Conducting violence and mental health research during the COVID-19 pandemic with vulnerable groups such as female sex workers (FSWs) required care to ensure that participants and the research team were not harmed. Potential risks and harm avoidance needed to be considered as well as ensuring data reliability. In March 2020, COVID-19 restrictions were imposed in Kenya during follow-up data collection for the Maisha Fiti study ( n = 1003); hence da…

  • Violence across the Life Course and Implications for Intervention Design

    Open AccessTara Beattie, Rhoda Kabuti et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    We examined violence experiences among Female Sex Workers (FSWs) in Nairobi, Kenya, and how these relate to HIV risk using a life course perspective. Baseline behavioural-biological surveys were conducted with 1003 FSWs June-December 2019. Multivariable logistic regression models were used to estimate the adjusted odds ratio (AOR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for associations of life course factors with reported experience of physical or sex…

  • Transgender women in Kenya experience greater stigma, depressive symptoms, alcohol and drug use and risky sexual practices than cis-gendered men who have sex with men

    Open AccessSupriya D Mehta, Fredrick O Otieno et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Across three metropolitan areas in Kenya, TGW were more likely to report depressive symptoms and increased sexual risk taking. We identified a need for research that better characterizes the range of gender identities. Our analysis affirms the need for programmatic gender-affirming interventions specific to transgender populations in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa

  • Managing motherhood – the experiences of female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya

    Emily Nyariki, Rhoda Wanjiru et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2023

    Women selling sex often face challenges in raising their children in the context of significant socio-economic difficulties and the social stigma inherent in sex work. This paper is based on a cross-sectional qualitative study that explored the dual roles of motherhood and sex work among female sex workers enrolled for ongoing HIV prevention and treatment services in the Sex Workers Outreach Programme (SWOP) clinics in Nairobi, Kenya. We examined…

  • An urgent call to include men who have sex with men in the HPV immunisation programme in Kenya

    Open AccessRobert Lorway, Pascal Macharia et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

  • Remote methods for research on violence against women and children

    Open AccessAmiya Bhatia, Ellen Turner et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    Collecting data to understand violence against women and children during and after the COVID-19 pandemic is essential to inform violence prevention and response efforts. Although researchers across fields have pivoted to remote rather than in-person data collection, remote research on violence against women, children and young people poses particular challenges. As a group of violence researchers, we reflect on our experiences across eight studie…

  • Formative assessment to identify perceived benefits and barriers of HIV oral self-testing among female sex workers, service providers, outreach workers, and peer educators to inform scale-up in Kenya

    Kawango Agot, Meagan Cain et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2022

    In Kenya, HIV prevalence estimates among female sex workers (FSWs) are almost five times higher than among women in the general population. However, only 68% of infected FSWs are aware of their HIV-positive status. We aimed to identify perceived benefits, opportunities, and barriers of HIV self-testing (HIVST) in improving testing coverage among FSWs. Twenty focus group discussions were conducted with 77 service providers, 42 peer educators (PEs)…

  • Longitudinal experiences and risk factors for common mental health problems and suicidal behaviours among female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya

    Open AccessAlicja Beksinska, Pooja Shah et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2022

    Our study found a decline in mental health problems but high levels of persistent suicidal behaviours among FSWs. Syndemic risk factors including food insecurity and violence were longitudinally associated with mental health problems and recent suicidal behaviours. There is a need for accessible mental health services for FSWs, alongside structural interventions addressing poverty and violence

  • Validating a measure of anticipated sex work-related stigma among male and female sex workers in Kenya

    Open AccessEmmanuel A Oga, Melissa A Stockton et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2022

    Sex workers face different types of sex work-related stigma, which may include anticipated, perceived, experienced, or internalized stigma. Sex work stigma can discourage health care seeking and hamper STI and HIV prevention and treatment efforts. There is a paucity of validated sex work-related stigma measures, and this limits the ability to study the stigma associated with sex work. A cross-sectional survey was conducted that measured anticipat…

  • Harmful Alcohol and Drug Use Is Associated with Syndemic Risk Factors among Female Sex Workers in Nairobi, Kenya

    Open AccessAlicja Beksinska, Emily Nyariki et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Background: Female Sex Workers (FSWs) are at high risk of harmful alcohol and other drug use. We use quantitative data to describe the prevalence of alcohol and other drug use and identify associated occupational and socio-economic risk factors, and aim to elucidate patterns of alcohol and drug use through information drawn from qualitative data. Methods: Maisha Fiti was a mixed-method longitudinal study conducted in 2019 among a random sample of…

  • Validity and reliability of the Neilands sexual stigma scale among Kenyan gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men

    Open AccessChristine Korhonen, Christine J Korhonen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Our findings suggest enacted and perceived sexual stigma are distinct yet closely related constructs among GBMSM in Kenya and are associated with poor mental health and substance use