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Victor Akelo
Researcher at Kenya Medical Research Institute
Publications - 39
Citations - 489
Victor Akelo is an academic researcher from Kenya Medical Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Population. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 26 publications receiving 259 citations. Previous affiliations of Victor Akelo include Centers for Disease Control and Prevention & Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
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Treatment as Prevention: Characterization of Partner Infections in the HIV Prevention Trials Network 052 Trial.
Susan H. Eshleman,Sarah E. Hudelson,Andrew D. Redd,Ronald Swanstrom,San San Ou,Xinyi Cindy Zhang,Li Hua Ping,Estelle Piwowar-Manning,Stephen F. Porcella,Matthew Sievers,Craig Martens,Daniel Bruno,Elena Dukhovlinova,Marybeth McCauley,Theresa Gamble,Jessica M. Fogel,Devin Sabin,Thomas C. Quinn,Thomas C. Quinn,Laurence Gunde,Madalitso Maliwichi,Nehemiah Nhando,Victor Akelo,Sikhulile Moyo,Ravindre Panchia,Nagalingeswaran Kumarasamy,Nuntisa Chotirosniramit,Marineide Gonçalves de Melo,José Henrique Pilotto,Beatriz Grinsztejn,Kenneth H. Mayer,Kenneth H. Mayer,Ying Q. Chen,James P. Hughes,Myron S. Cohen +34 more
TL;DR: It was demonstrated that antiretroviral therapy (ART) prevents HIV transmission in serodiscordant couples and was the likely source of the partner's infection.
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Initial findings from a novel population-based child mortality surveillance approach: a descriptive study.
Allan W. Taylor,Dianna M. Blau,Quique Bassat,Dickens Onyango,Karen L. Kotloff,Shams El Arifeen,Inacio Mandomando,Richard Chawana,Vicky L. Baillie,Victor Akelo,Milagritos D. Tapia,Navit T Salzberg,Adama Mamby Keita,Tim Morris,Shailesh Nair,Nega Assefa,Anna C. Seale,J. Anthony G. Scott,Reinhard Kaiser,Amara Jambai,Beth A Tippet Barr,Emily S. Gurley,Emily S. Gurley,Jaume Ordi,Sherif R. Zaki,Samba O. Sow,Farzana Islam,Afruna Rahman,Scott F. Dowell,Jeffrey P. Koplan,Pratima L Raghunathan,Shabir A. Madhi,Robert F. Breiman,Sozinho Acácio,Yasmin Adam,Sara Ajanovic,Muntasir Alam,Rebecca Alkis Ramirez,Henry Badji,Sanwarul Bari,J Patrick Caneer,Atique Iqbal Chowdhury,Maureen H. Diaz,Karen D. Fairchild,Meerjady Sabrina Flora,Mischka Garel,Adriana Gibby,Nelesh P. Govender,Carol L. Greene,Martin Hale,Juan Carlos Hurtado,J. Kristie Johnson,Mohammed Kamal,Tatiana Keita,Rima Koka,Diakaridia Koné,Sanjay G. Lala,Hennie Lombaard,Rita Mabunda,Roosecelis B Martines,Ashka Mehta,Clara Menéndez,Sibone Mocumbi,Claudia Moya,Tacilta Nhampossa,Uma U. Onwuchekwa,Shahana Parveen,Karen Petersen,Rebecca Pass Phillipsborn,Mustafizur Rahman,Natalia Rakislova,Jana M. Ritter,Hossain M.S. Sazzad,Diakaridia Sidibe,Antonio Sitoe,Kasthuri Sivalogan,Jennifer M. Swanson,Peter J. Swart,Sharon M. Tennant,Cheick B. Traoré,Rosauro Varo Cobos,Pio Vitorino,Marta Valente,Sithembiso Velaphi,Jeannette Wadula,Jessica L. Waller,Amanda L. Wilkinson,Jonas M. Winchell +87 more
TL;DR: Data obtained in the first 2 years after the implementation of CHAMPS at the first five operational sites, during which surveillance and post-mortem diagnostics, including minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS), were used, were analysed to improve the accuracy of determining causes of death.
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Attitudes toward family planning among HIV-positive pregnant women enrolled in a prevention of mother-to-child transmission study in Kisumu, Kenya.
Victor Akelo,Victor Akelo,Sonali Girde,Sonali Girde,Craig B. Borkowf,Frank Angira,Kevin Achola,Richard Lando,Lisa A. Mills,Timothy K. Thomas,Shirley Lee Lecher +10 more
TL;DR: A significant gap exists between future FP intentions and current FP practices, and integration of individual and couple FP services into routine HIV care, treatment and support services is needed in order to avoid unintended pregnancies and to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission.
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A Smartphone Game-Based Intervention (Tumaini) to Prevent HIV Among Young Africans: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.
Kate Winskell,Gaëlle Sabben,Victor Akelo,Ken Ondenge,Christopher O. Obong'o,Rob Stephenson,David Warhol,Victor Mudhune +7 more
TL;DR: The intervention arm showed significant gains in sexual health-related knowledge and self-efficacy and behavioral intention for risk-avoidance strategies and sexual risk communication compared with the control arm at T3, which supports the need for further research to assess the efficacy of the game-based intervention.
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A Smartphone Game to Prevent HIV Among Young Africans (Tumaini): Assessing Intervention and Study Acceptability Among Adolescents and Their Parents in a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Gaëlle Sabben,Victor Mudhune,Ken Ondenge,Isdorah Odero,Richard Ndivo,Victor Akelo,Kate Winskell +6 more
TL;DR: This study shows the strong acceptability of an interactive smartphone-based game both to adolescents and their parents in western Kenya and that of the study methods used to pilot-test the intervention, and suggests that longitudinal efficacy studies of this type of intervention, including those using biomarkers, have the potential to be acceptable among parents.