BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

608-1081 Burrard St.

Vancouver, BC V6Z 1Y6

Gender and Sexual Health

HIV/STIs

Social and Structural Inequalities

Global Health

AESHA: An Evaluation of Sex Workers’ Health Access Five year CIHR-funded research and evaluation of the impact of social, physical and policy environment on sexual health, HIV/STIs and violence among women working both on and off street

VCH four-year evaluation of a residential treatment & housing program for female sex workers who use drugs 

Gender-based violence, sexual health & HIV among women in Uganda (The AIDS Support Organization, TASO Uganda)

Women’s rights, gender-based violence, and HIV vulnerability in Botswana & Swaziland

Mapping HIV/STI vulnerability among female sex workers in India (Avahan India AIDS Initiative) & US-Mexico border cities

Shannon K, K Leiter, LM Butler, Z Hlanz, M Heiser, JS Montaner, V Iacopino, S Weiser. Gender inequity norms elevate male-perpetrated rape, coercion, and sexual HIV risk among a population-based probability sample in Botswana and Swaziland. In Review.

Shannon K, Kerr T, Zhang R, Strathdee SA, Marshall B, Tyndall MW, Montaner JS, Wood E. Survival sex work involvement as a primary risk factor for Hepatitis C infection among street youth. Archives Pediatrics Adolesc Med (JAMA). 2009; In Press

Marshall B, K Shannon, T Kerr, E Wood. Survival sex among sexual minority youth and elevated risk for HIV infection. JAIDS, 2009; In Press.

Shannon K, Kerr T, Strathdee SA, Shoveller J, Montaner JS, Tyndall MW. Prevalence and correlates of gender-based violence among a cohort of female sex workers. BMJ. 2009. 339:b2939

Shannon K, Strathdee SA, Rusch M, Shoveller J, Kerr T, Tyndall MW. Structural and environmental barriers to condom negotiation with clients among female sex workers: Implications for HIV prevention strategies and policy. Am J Public Health. 2009. 99(4): 659-65.

Deering K, K Shannon, D Parsad, H Sinclair, MW Tyndall. Results of a pilot peer-driven intervention model to increase HIV care support and antiretroviral therapy adherence among HIV-positive women. AIDS Patient Care & STDs. 2009: 23(8): 603-9

Shannon K, Kaida A, Rachlis B, Lloyd-Smith E, Gray G, Strathdee SA. Reconsidering the impact of conflict on HIV transmission in the era of ART scale up in sub-Saharan Africa: a gender lens. AIDS. 2008; 22: 1705-7.

Shannon K., M Rusch, V Bright, D Alexson, J Shoveller, MW Tyndall. Mapping violence and policing as an environmental-structural barrier to health service and syringe availability among women in survival sex work.  International Journal of Drug Policy, (Special Issue on Women and Harm Reduction). 2008; 19(2):140-7.

Shannon K, T Kerr, S Allinott, J Chettiar, J Shoveller, MW Tyndall. Social and structural violence and power relations in mitigating HIV risk of drug-using women in survival sex work, Social Science and Medicine. 2008; 66 (4): 911-21

Shannon K, Mahmud Z, Asfia A, Ali M. The social and environmental factors underlying maternal malnutrition in rural Bangladesh: Implications for reproductive health and nutrition programs, Health Care for Women International. 2008; 29(8):826-40