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Vanessa Apea
Researcher at Barts Health NHS Trust
Publications - 37
Citations - 2607
Vanessa Apea is an academic researcher from Barts Health NHS Trust. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Reproductive health. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 18 publications receiving 1378 citations. Previous affiliations of Vanessa Apea include Queen Mary University of London.
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Pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent the acquisition of HIV-1 infection (PROUD): effectiveness results from the pilot phase of a pragmatic open-label randomised trial.
Sheena McCormack,David Dunn,Monica Desai,David Dolling,Mitzy Gafos,Richard Gilson,Richard Gilson,Ann Sullivan,Amanda Clarke,Iain Reeves,Gabriel Schembri,Nicola Mackie,Christine Bowman,Charles J.N. Lacey,Vanessa Apea,Michael Brady,Julie Fox,Stephen Taylor,Simone Antonucci,Saye Khoo,James F. Rooney,Anthony Nardone,Martin Fisher,Alan McOwan,Andrew N. Phillips,Anne M Johnson,Brian Gazzard,ON Gill +27 more
TL;DR: In this high incidence population, daily tenofovir–emtricitabine conferred even higher protection against HIV than in placebo-controlled trials, refuting concerns that effectiveness would be less in a real-world setting.
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Monkeypox Virus Infection in Humans across 16 Countries - April-June 2022.
John Thornhill,Sapha Barkati,Sharon Walmsley,Juergen K. Rockstroh,Andrea Antinori,Luke B Harrison,Romain Palich,Achyuta V Nori,I. Reeves,Maximillian S. Habibi,Vanessa Apea,Christoph Boesecke,Linos Vandekerckhove,M. V. Yakubovsky,Elena Sendagorta,José L. Blanco,Eric Florence,Davide Moschese,Fernando Maltez,Abraham Goorhuis,Valérie Pourcher,Pascal Migaud,Sebastian Noe,Claire Pintado,Fabrizio Maggi,Ann-Brit Eg Hansen,Christian Hoffmann,Jezer I Lezama,Cristina Mussini,Anna Maria Cattelan,Keletso Makofane,Darrell H. S. Tan,Silvia Nozza,J. Nemeth,Marina B Klein,Chloe Orkin +35 more
TL;DR: The simultaneous identification of cases outside areas where monkeypox has traditionally been endemic highlights the need for rapid identification and diagnosis of cases to contain further community spread.
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Ethnicity and outcomes in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 infection in East London: an observational cohort study.
Vanessa Apea,Yize I. Wan,Rageshri Dhairyawan,Zudin Puthucheary,Rupert M Pearse,Chloe Orkin,John R. Prowle +6 more
TL;DR: This paper found that patients from Asian and black backgrounds had higher mortality from COVID-19 infection despite controlling for all previously identified confounders and frailty, including frailty and inflammatory markers.
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Ethnicity and outcomes in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 infection in East London: an observational cohort study
Vanessa Apea,Vanessa Apea,Yize I. Wan,Rageshri Dhairyawan,Rageshri Dhairyawan,Zudin Puthucheary,Rupert M Pearse,Chloe Orkin,Chloe Orkin,John R. Prowle +9 more
TL;DR: Patients from Asian and Black backgrounds are more likely to die from COVID-19 infection despite controlling for all previously identified confounders, and these findings persisted across a range of risk-factor adjusted analyses.
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The Context of Sexual Risk Behaviour Among Men Who Have Sex with Men Seeking PrEP, and the Impact of PrEP on Sexual Behaviour
Mitzy Gafos,Mitzy Gafos,Rob Horne,Will Nutland,Gill Bell,C Rae,Sonali Wayal,Michael Rayment,Amanda Clarke,Gabriel Schembri,Richard Gilson,Alan McOwan,Ann Sullivan,Julie Fox,Vanessa Apea,Claire Dewsnap,David Dolling,Ellen White,Elizabeth Brodnicki,Gemma Wood,David Dunn,Sheena McCormack,Sheena McCormack +22 more
TL;DR: PrEP provides a critical and necessary additional HIV prevention option that individuals can add to existing strategies in order to enhance protection, at least from HIV, using qualitative data from the PROUD study.