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Journal articles
2021, 'Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies in Sydney after the first epidemic wave of 2020', Medical Journal of Australia, 214, pp. 179 - 185, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50940
,2021, 'Surveillance systems for monitoring cervical cancer elimination efforts: Focus on HPV infection, cervical dysplasia, cervical screening and treatment', Preventive Medicine, 144, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2020.106293
,2021, 'A comparison of ThinPrep against four non-volatile transport media for HPV testing at or near the point of care', Pathology, 53, pp. 264 - 266, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pathol.2020.10.006
,2021, 'Defining the need for public health control of scabies in Solomon islands', PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009142
,2021, 'Outcomes for patients with COVID-19 admitted to Australian intensive care units during the first four months of the pandemic', Medical Journal of Australia, 214, pp. 23 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50883
,2021, 'Subtype-specific differences in transmission cluster dynamics of HIV-1 B and CRF01_AE in New South Wales, Australia', Journal of the International AIDS Society, 24, pp. e25655, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jia2.25655
,2021, 'Working with Aboriginal young people in sexual health research: a peer research methodology in remote Australia', Qualitative Health Research, 31, pp. 16 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732320961348
,2021, 'The longer-term effects of access to HIV self-tests on HIV testing frequency in high-risk gay and bisexual men: follow-up data from a randomised controlled trial', The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 14, pp. 100214 - 100214, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2021.100214
,2020, 'Impact of Community Treatment with Ivermectin for the Control of Scabies on the Prevalence of Antibodies to Strongyloides stercoralis in Children', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 71, pp. 3226 - 3228, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa584
,2020, 'Loss to follow up of pregnant women with HIV and infant HIV outcomes in the prevention of maternal to child transmission of HIV programme in two high-burden provinces in Papua New Guinea: A retrospective clinical audit', BMJ Open, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038311
,2020, 'Aetiology of acute febrile illness among children attending a tertiary hospital in southern Ethiopia', BMC Infectious Diseases, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-05635-x
,2020, 'Community perspectives on scabies, impetigo and mass drug administration in Fiji: A qualitative study', PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 14, pp. e0008825, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008825
,2020, 'Detection of high-grade cervical disease among women referred directly to colposcopy after a positive HPV screening test varies with age and cytology findings', International Journal of Cancer, 147, pp. 3068 - 3074, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ijc.33128
,2020, 'Hospital admissions for skin and soft tissue infections in a population with endemic scabies: A prospective study in Fiji, 2018-2019', PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 14, pp. e0008887, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008887
,2020, 'Systematic Review of Interventions to Reduce HIV Risk Among Men Who Purchase Sex in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Outcomes, Lessons Learned, and Opportunities for Future Interventions', AIDS and Behavior, 24, pp. 3414 - 3435, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-020-02915-0
,2020, 'Treating male partners of women with bacterial vaginosis (StepUp): a protocol for a randomised controlled trial to assess the clinical effectiveness of male partner treatment for reducing the risk of BV recurrence', BMC Infectious Diseases, 20, pp. 834, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-05563-w
,2020, 'Hospital outcomes after a COVID-19 diagnosis from January to May 2020 in New South Wales Australia', Communicable diseases intelligence (2018), 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.97
,2020, 'Evaluation of commercially available viral transport medium (VTM) for SARS-CoV-2 inactivation and use in point-of-care (POC) testing', Viruses, 12, pp. 1208, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v12111208
,2020, 'The burden of HIV infection among men who purchase sex in low- And middle-income countries – a systematic review and meta-analysis', PLoS ONE, 15, pp. e0238639, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238639
,2020, 'Protocol for a cluster-randomised non-inferiority trial of one versus two doses of ivermectin for the control of scabies using a mass drug administration strategy (the RISE study)', BMJ Open, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037305
,2020, 'Factors associated with HIV and syphilis infection among female sex workers in three cities in Papua New Guinea: Findings from Kauntim mi tu, a biobehavioral survey', Sexual Health, 17, pp. 311 - 320, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh19218
,2020, 'Surveillance strategies for the detection of disease outbreaks in the Pacific islands: meta-analysis of published literature, 2010–2019', Tropical Medicine and International Health, 25, pp. 906 - 918, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tmi.13448
,2020, 'The Preferred Qualities of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Testing and Self-Testing Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: A Discrete Choice Experiment', Value in Health, 23, pp. 870 - 879, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2020.04.1826
,2020, 'A Qualitative Exploration of Family, Work, Community, and Health Service Influences on HIV Treatment Uptake and Adherence Among Female Sex Workers in Three Cities in Indonesia', AIDS Education and Prevention, 32, pp. 243 - 259, http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/aeap.2020.32.3.243
,2020, 'Evaluation of p16/Ki-67 dual-stain cytology performed on self-collected vaginal and clinician-collected cervical specimens for the detection of cervical pre-cancer', Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 26, pp. 748 - 752, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2019.10.020
,2020, 'Uptake and acceptability of assisted and unassisted HIV self-testing among men who purchase sex in brothels in Indonesia: A pilot intervention study', BMC Public Health, 20, pp. 730, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08812-4
,2020, 'Attitudes and willingness to donate blood among gay and bisexual men in Australia', Transfusion, 60, pp. 965 - 973, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/trf.15768
,2020, 'Confidential, accessible point-of-care sexual health services to support the participation of key populations in biobehavioural surveys: Lessons for Papua New Guinea and other settings where reach of key populations is limited', PLoS ONE, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233026
,2020, 'Prevalence of scabies and impetigo 3 years after mass drug administration with ivermectin and azithromycin', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 70, pp. 1591 - 1595, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz444
,2020, 'Scientific evidence supporting recommendations on the use of the 9-valent HPV vaccine in a 2-dose vaccine schedule in Australia', Communicable diseases intelligence (2018), 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2020.44.33
,2020, 'A comparison of ThinPrep-PreservCyt against four non-volatile transport media for HPV testing at or near the point of care', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.18.998104
,2020, 'Considerable distance to reach 90-90-90 targets among female sex workers, men who have sex with men and transgender women in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: Findings from a cross-sectional respondent-driven sampling survey', Sexually Transmitted Infections, 96, pp. 143 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2019-053961
,2020, 'Population-level diagnosis and care cascade for chlamydia in Australia', Sexually Transmitted Infections, 96, pp. 131 - 136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2018-053801
,2020, 'The safety of combined triple drug therapy with ivermectin, diethylcarbamazine and albendazole in the neglected tropical diseases co-endemic setting of fiji: A cluster randomised trial', PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14, pp. 1 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008106
,2020, 'Azithromycin to Reduce Childhood Mortality', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 70, pp. 581 - 582, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz272
,2020, 'The association between the australian alcopops tax and national chlamydia rates among young people—an interrupted time series analysis', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, pp. 1343, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041343
,2020, 'Increasing HIV treatment access, uptake and use among men who have sex with men in urban Indonesia: Evidence from a qualitative study in three cities', Health Policy and Planning, 35, pp. 16 - 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czz128
,2020, 'Monitoring human papillomavirus prevalence among young Australian women undergoing routine chlamydia screening', Vaccine, 38, pp. 1186 - 1193, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.11.019
,2020, 'Association between HTLV-1 infection and adverse health outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological studies', The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 20, pp. 133 - 143, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30402-5
,2020, 'Trends in chronic hepatitis B prevalence in Australian women by country of birth, 2000 to 2016', Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 27, pp. 74 - 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvh.13202
,2020, 'Young Aboriginal people's sexual health risk reduction strategies: a qualitative study in remote Australia', Sexual Health, 17, pp. 303 - 303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh19204
,2020, 'Young Aboriginal people’s engagement with STI testing in the Northern Territory, Australia', BMC Public Health, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08565-0
,2019, 'Barriers and Enablers to HIV Care Among Waria (Transgender Women) in Indonesia: A Qualitative Study', AIDS Education and Prevention: an interdisciplinary journal, 31, pp. 538 - 552, https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/pdf/10.1521/aeap.2019.31.6.538
,2019, 'Sexually transmissible infections among transgender men and women attending Australian sexual health clinics', Medical Journal of Australia, 211, pp. 406 - 411, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50322
,2019, 'Strategies to improve control of sexually transmissible infections in remote Australian Aboriginal communities: a stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised trial', The Lancet Global Health, 7, pp. e1553 - e1563, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30411-5
,2019, 'Prevalence of human papillomavirus in teenage heterosexual males following the implementation of female and male school-based vaccination in Australia: 2014–2017', Vaccine, 37, pp. 6907 - 6914, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.09.052
,2019, 'Risk of Ectopic Pregnancy and Tubal Infertility Following Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Infections', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 69, pp. 1621 - 1623, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz145
,2019, 'A cluster-randomised controlled trial comparing school and community-based deworming for soil transmitted helminth control in school-age children: The CoDe-STH trial protocol', BMC Infectious Diseases, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4449-6
,2019, 'Doxycycline prophylaxis for bacterial sexually transmitted infections', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 70, pp. 1247 - 1253, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz866
,2019, 'Incomplete recording of Indigenous identification status under-estimates the prevalence of Indigenous population attending Australian general practices: A cross sectional study', BMC Health Services Research, 19, pp. 567, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4393-6
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