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Stuart Rennie
Researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Publications - 126
Citations - 1978
Stuart Rennie is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author has contributed to research in topics: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) & Research ethics. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 110 publications receiving 1521 citations. Previous affiliations of Stuart Rennie include University of Cape Town & University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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Desperately seeking targets: the ethics of routine HIV testing in low-income countries
Stuart Rennie,Frieda Behets +1 more
TL;DR: In settings marked by poverty, weak health-care and civil society infrastructures, gender inequalities, and persistent stigmatization of people with HIV/AIDS, opt-out HIV-testing policies may become disconnected from the human rights ideals that first motivated calls for universal access to AIDS treatment.
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The process of HIV status disclosure to HIV-positive youth in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
TL;DR: HIV care and treatment programs must be prepared to address the psychosocial needs of youth and their caregivers during the disclosure process and a large majority felt that it is better for them to know their HIV status.
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Healing Without Waging War: Beyond Military Metaphors in Medicine and HIV Cure Research
Jing-Bao Nie,Adam Gilbertson,Malcolm de Roubaix,Ciara Staunton,Anton A. van Niekerk,Joseph D. Tucker,Stuart Rennie +6 more
TL;DR: It is argued for the increased use of “journey” (and related) metaphors as meaningful, cross-culturally appropriate alternatives to military metaphors to overcome military metaphors.
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Male circumcision and HIV prevention: ethical, medical and public health tradeoffs in low-income countries
TL;DR: Results from a randomised controlled trial in South Africa in 2005 indicate that male circumcision protects men against the acquisition of HIV through heterosexual intercourse, confirming the findings from 20 years of observational studies.
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Principlism, medical individualism, and health promotion in resource-poor countries: can autonomy-based bioethics promote social justice and population health?
TL;DR: A sociological explanation of disease causation is needed to broaden principles of biomedical ethics and provides a renewed understanding of disease, freedom, medical practice, patient-physician relationship, risk and benefit of research and treatment, research priorities, and health policy.