Fiona Kouyoumdjian
Fiona Kouyoumdjian is a PhD student in Epidemiology and a Resident in Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Fiona completed her medical training at Dalhousie University and a Master of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research interests include communicable diseases and violence in populations in sub-Saharan Africa and in North America. Her thesis is focused on how experiencing partner violence affects the risk of incident HIV in women in the Rakai Community Cohort Study in Uganda.
A Systematic Review of the Relationships Between HIV/AIDS and Violence
Violence has been shown to be a major driver of many adverse health outcomes including HIV. The mechanisms of the relationships between violence and HIV are not well understood. Elucidating how violence is associated with HIV could identify opportunities to intervene in the pathways that lead to violence and to HIV infection.
The goals of this project are to systematically review published and gray literature on the relationships between violence and HIV in order to (1) summarize qualitative and quantitative data on the risk of HIV in people experiencing violence, (2) summarize qualitative and quantitative data on the risk of violence in people with HIV, (3) describe theories regarding the relationships between violence and HIV, including how these relationships are mediated, (4) describe existing interventions, and (5) comment on areas for future research
