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FURTHER READING

Reports, Books & Papers

 

 

Bibliography (Courtesy of WHIWH)

 

  • 2015

Loutfy, M., Tharao, W., Logie, C., Aden, A. M., Chambers, L. A., Wu, W., Abdelmaseh, M., Calzavara, L. (2015). Systematic review of stigma reducing interventions for African/Black diasporic women. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 18:19835
 
Massaquoi, N., (2015). Queer Theory and Intersectionality. In: James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 19. Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 765–770. ISBN: 9780080970868
 
Macdonald, M. E., Ng, R., Yudin, H. M., Bayoumi, M. A., Loutfy, M., Raboud, J., Khatundi, I. M.,Tharao, E. W., Brophy, J., Glazier, H. R., Antoniou, T. (2015). Postpartum Maternal and Neonatal Hospitalizations Among Women with HIV: A Population-Based Study.  AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2015 Jul 28. Epub 2015 Jul 28.

 

Erin M Macdonald, Ryan Ng, Ahmed M Bayoumi, Janet Raboud, Jason Brophy, Khatundi-Irene Masinde, Wangari E Tharao, Mark H Yudin, Mona R Loutfy, Richard H Glazier, Tony Antoniou (2015). Adverse Neonatal Outcomes Among Women Living With HIV: A Population Based Study. J Obstet Gynaecology Canada; 37(4):302-9

 

  • 2014

Antoniou, T., Zagorski, B., Macdonald, E., Bayoumi, A.M., Raboud, J., Brophy, J., Masinde, K.I., Tharao, W.E., Yudin, M.H., Ng, R., Loutfy, M.R., & Glazier, R.H. (2014). Trends in live birth rates and adverse neonatal outcomes among HIV-positive women in Ontario, Canada, 2002–2009: a descriptive population-based study. International Journal of STD & AIDS, 25(13), 960-966. doi: 10.1177/0956462414526861.
 
Yi, T. J., Shannon, B., Chieza, L., Su, D., Saunders, M., Tharao, W.,Huibner, S, Remis, R., Raboud, J., & Kaul, R. (2014). Valacyclovir therapy does not reverse herpes-associated alterations in cervical immunology: a randomized, placebo-controlled crossover trial. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 210(5), 708-712.

 

  • 2013

Carter, A.J., Bourgeois, S., O'Brien, N., Abelsohn, K., Tharao, W., Greene, S., Margolese, S., Kaida, A., Sanchez, M., Palmer, A. K., Cescon, A., de Pokomandy, A., Loutfy, M. R., & on behalf of CHIWOS Research Team. (2013). Women-specific HIV/AIDS services: identifying and defining the components of holistic service delivery for women living with HIV/AIDS.  Journal of the International AIDS Society, 16, 17433. http://dx.doi.org/10.7448/IAS.16.1.17433.
 
Kennedy, V.L., Serghides, L., Raboud, J., Sud, D., Blitz, S., Hart, T., Walmsley, L.S., Angel, B.J., Smaill, M.F., Ralphi, D.D., Tharao, E.T., Loutfy, R.M., & the Ontario HIV Fertility Research Team. (2013). The importance of motherhood in HIV-positive women of reproductive age in Ontario, Canada. AIDS Care, 26(6), 777-84.
 
Logie, C., James, L., Tharao, W., & Loutfy, M. (2013). Associations between HIV-related stigma, racial discrimination, gender discrimination, and depression among HIV-positive African, Caribbean, and Black women in Ontario, Canada. AIDS Patient Care & STDs, 27(2), 114-122, doi: 10.1089/apc.2012.0296.
 
Massaquoi, N. (2013). No Place Like Home: African Refugees and the Emergence of a New Queer Frame of Reference. In M. Epprecht & S.N. Nyeck (Eds.), Sexual Diversity in Africa: Politics, Theory, and Citizenship. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
 
Weaver, J., Newman, A. P., Williams, C. C., Massaquoi, N., Brown, M. (2013). “Sisters Mothers Daughters and Aunties”: HIV vaccine acceptability among African Caribbean and other Black women in Toronto. Can J Public Health; 104(5):e413-7.
 
Morshed, M., Logie, C., Tharao, W., & Loutfy, M. (2013). WCBR Project- Involving Ontario HIV-Positive Women and Their Service Providers in Determining Research Needs and Priorities. Toronto: WHIWH CHC and Women’s College Research Institute. http://www.whiwh.com/sites/default/files/WCBR%20Report%20Final.pdf.
 
Remis, R. S., Liu, J., Loutfy, M., Tharao, W., Rebbapragada, A., Perusini, S. J., Chieza, L., Saunders, M., Green-Walker, L., & Kaul, R. (2013). The epidemiology of sexually transmitted co-infections in HIV-positive and HIV-negative African-Caribbean women in Toronto. BMC Infectious Diseases, 13(1), 550.

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Tharao, W., & Massaquoi, N. (2013). Black Women and HIV/AIDS, Contextualizing their Realities, their Silence and Proposing Solutions. In A. Miles (Ed), Women in a Globalized World, Transforming Equality, Development, Diversity and Peace (pp. 471-482). Toronto: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
 
Tharao, W., Muchenje, M., & Mehes, M. (2013).  An Evidence-based Intervention to Support African, Caribbean and Black Women in Canada Disclose their HIV-Position Status. In J.C. Gahagan (Ed.), Women and HIV Prevention in Canada: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice (pp. 105-134). Toronto: Women’s Press, an imprint of Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc.

 

  • 2012

Gray, K., Tharao, W., & Calzavara, L. (2012). Conducting research with hard-to reach populations: Lessons learned from the East African Health Study in Toronto (EAST).
 
Logie, C., James, L., Tharao, W., & Loutfy, M. (2012). Opportunities, ethical challenges and lessons learned from a multi-method community-based research project with HIV-positive women in Ontario, Canada. The Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 7(4), 10-19.
 
Logie, C. H., James, L., Tharao, W., & Loutfy, M.R. (2012). "We don't exist": a qualitative study of marginalization experienced by HIV-positive lesbian, bisexual, queer and transgender women in Toronto, Canada. Journal of International AIDS Society, 15(2), 1-11. doi: 10.7448/IAS.15.2.17392.
 
Loutfy, M. R., Logie, C. H., Zhang, Y., Blitz, S.L., Margolese, S. L., Tharao, E. W., Rourke, S. B., Rueda, S., & Raboud, J. M. (2012). Gender and Ethnicity Differences in HIV-related Stigma Experienced by People Living with HIV in Ontario, Canada. PLoS ONE, 7(12), e48168. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048168. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0048168.

 

  • 2011

Kaul R., Cohen C.R., Chege, D., Yi, T.J., Tharao, W., McKinnon, L.R., Remis, R., Anzala O., & Kimani, J. (2011). Biological factors that may contribute to regional and racial disparities in HIV prevalence. American Journal of Reproductive Immunology, 65(3), 317–324. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2010.00962.x.
 
Lala, A. (2011). Seeing the Whole Picture: A Culturally Sensitive Art Therapy Approach to Address Depression amongst Ethnically Diverse Women. In H. Burt (Ed.), Art Therapy and Postmodernism: Creative Healing Through a Prism (pp. 32-48). London, England: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
 
Logie, C.H., James, L., Tharao, W., & Loutfy, M.R. (2011). HIV, gender, race, sexual orientation, and sex work: a qualitative study of intersectional stigma experienced by HIV-positive women in Ontario, Canada. PLoS Med, 8(11). doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001124.

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001124. 

 

  • 2009

Curling, D., Chatterjee, S., Massaquoi, N. (2009). Women’s Transnational Locations as a Determinant of Mental Health:  Results from a Participatory Action Research Project with New Immigrant Women of Color in Toronto, Canada. In J. Gallivan & S. Cooper (Eds.), Pathways, Bridges and Havens: The Psychosocial Determinants of Women’s Health. Sydney, Nova Scotia: Cape Breton University Press.
 
Loutfy, M., Hart A.T., Mohammed S.S., Su, D., Ralph, D.E., Walmsley, L.S., Soje, L., Muchenje, M., Rachlis, R.A., Smaill, M.F., Angle. B.J., Raboud, M.J., Silverrman, S.M., Tharao E.W., Gough, K., & Yudin, H. (2009). Fertility desires and intentions of HIV-positive women of reproductive age in Ontario, Canada: a cross-sectional study. PLoS ONE, 4(12), 1-10. http://digitalcommons.ryerson.ca/psych/22.
 
Williams, C., Newman, P.A., Sakamoto, I., & Massaquoi, N. (2009). HIV prevention risks for Black women in Canada. Social Science and Medicine, 68(1), 12-20. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.043.

 

  • 2008

Gardezi, F., Calzavara, L., Husbands, W., Myers, T., Tharao, W., Lawson, E., George, C., Pancham, A., Remis, R., Willms, D., McGee, F., & Adebajo, S. (2008). Experiences of and responses to HIV among African and Caribbean communities in Toronto, Canada. AIDS Care, 20(6), 718-725. doi: 10.1080/09540120701693966. http://www.ohemu.utoronto.ca/doc/publications/2008_AIDSCare.pdf
 
Gray, K., Calzavara, L., Tharao, W., Johns, A., & the EAST Study team. (2008). The East African Health Study in Toronto (EAST): Results from a Survey of HIV and Health-Related Behaviour, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Knowledge. Toronto: University of Toronto, The HIV Social, Behavioural, and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Dalla Lana School of Public Health.
 
Massaquoi, N. (2008). The Continent as a Closet: The Making of an African Queer Theory. In S. Nyeck & U. Azuah (Eds.), Outliers, IRN- Africa. 
 
Newman, P.A., Williams, C.C., Massaquoi, N., Brown, M., & Logie, C. (2008).  HIV prevention for Black women: structural barriers and opportunities. The Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 19(3), 829-841. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18677073.
 
Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Centre. (2008). The Woman I Have Become: Discussion Guide. Toronto: Author. http://www.icad-cisd.com/pdf/CHABAC/RelatedResources/The-Woman-I-Have-Become-Discussion-Guide.pdf

 

  • 2007

Larkin, J., Lombardo, C., Walker, L., Bahreini, R., Tharao, W., Mitchell, C., & Dubazane, N. (2007). Taking IT Global Xpress: Youth Photovoice and HIV and AIDS. In N. de Lange, C. Mitchell, & J. Stuart (Eds.), Putting People in the Picture: Visual Methodologies for Social Change. Rotterdam/Taipei: Sense Publishers.
 
Massaquoi, N. (2007). An Unsettled Feminist Discourse. In N. Massaquoi & N. Wane (Eds.), Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought. Toronto: Inanna Publications & Education Inc.
 
Massaquoi, N. (2007). Crossing Boundaries to Radicalize Social Work Practice and Education. In D. Baines (Ed.), Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice: Building Transformative, Politicized Social Work. Halifax, N.S.: Fernwood.
 
Massaquoi, N., & Wane, N. (Eds.). (2007). Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought. Toronto: Inanna Publications & Education Inc.
 
Tharao, E., & Cornwell, L. (2007), Feminist Leadership and Female Genital Mutilation in Canada: A Case of Women’s Health in Women’s Hands CHC. In N. Massaquoi & N. Wane (Eds.), Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought. Toronto: Inanna Publications & Education Inc.
 
Williams, C., Newman, P.A., Massaquoi, N., Brown, M. & C. Logie. (2007). Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research Abstract: Sisters, Mothers, Daughters and Aunties: Structural Barriers and Opportunities for HIV Prevention Among Black Women. The Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology, 18(B), 27B.

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