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View article: The ‘Informed Matter’ of Gay and Bisexual Men's (Potential) Use of HIV Antiretrovirals to Prevent COVID‐19
The ‘Informed Matter’ of Gay and Bisexual Men's (Potential) Use of HIV Antiretrovirals to Prevent COVID‐19 Open
In 2020, there were reports that HIV antiretrovirals, specifically the combination tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and emtricitabine (TDF/FTC), had therapeutic potential for COVID‐19. In the context of scant empirical evidence at the time to…
View article: Techno-legal expertise and the datafication of the state: Big data, accountability and the value of a social license with institutional roots
Techno-legal expertise and the datafication of the state: Big data, accountability and the value of a social license with institutional roots Open
As governments around the world become increasingly datafied, debates are emerging about the best ways to attend to the complex socio-political implications of big data and the datafication of the state. Drawing on semi-structured intervie…
View article: Centring equity in data‐driven public health: a call for guiding principles to support the equitable design and outcomes of Australia's data integration systems
Centring equity in data‐driven public health: a call for guiding principles to support the equitable design and outcomes of Australia's data integration systems Open
We need to design data systems that hold social and health equity as a core value and desired outcome of data integration While this whole-of-government process affects many fields, data integration is expected to be highly significant to …
View article: Understanding the relationship between the public sector healthcare workers and NGO-based HIV counsellors while providing HIV counselling and testing services to pregnant women: A Qualitative Study in Suva, Fiji
Understanding the relationship between the public sector healthcare workers and NGO-based HIV counsellors while providing HIV counselling and testing services to pregnant women: A Qualitative Study in Suva, Fiji Open
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) counselling and testing plays a significant role in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. HIV counselling and testing during pregnancy is an essential gateway for HIV prevention, timely t…
View article: Health and public sector data sharing requires social licence negotiations
Health and public sector data sharing requires social licence negotiations Open
View article: Pill testing policy: A comparative analysis using the Advocacy Coalition Framework
Pill testing policy: A comparative analysis using the Advocacy Coalition Framework Open
Introduction Pill testing is regarded as a controversial harm reduction intervention and provides an ideal case study for examining how policy change comes about. Two Australian jurisdictions were analysed to explore factors that may accou…
View article: What factors shape doctors' trustworthiness? Patients' perspectives in the context of hypertension care in rural Tanzania
What factors shape doctors' trustworthiness? Patients' perspectives in the context of hypertension care in rural Tanzania Open
Good interpersonal behaviours and good technical skills are important in shaping patients' judgements of doctors' trustworthiness in rural Tanzania. The present findings provide useful insights for designing interventions to improve patien…
View article: Newspaper coverage of childhood immunisation in Australia: a lens into conflicts within public health
Newspaper coverage of childhood immunisation in Australia: a lens into conflicts within public health Open
Public health efforts to lift childhood vaccination rates can be supported or undermined by media representations of parents. Polarising representations neglect the large range of ‘middle-ground’ positions people occupy, potentially aliena…
View article: Under-reporting giardiasis; Time to consider the public health implications – ERRATUM
Under-reporting giardiasis; Time to consider the public health implications – ERRATUM Open
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View article: Trust matters: Patients’ and providers’ accounts of the role of trust in hypertension care in rural Tanzania
Trust matters: Patients’ and providers’ accounts of the role of trust in hypertension care in rural Tanzania Open
Background: Recent research indicates that biomedical response to the growing burden of non-communicable diseases in low income African countries is impacted by poor health care seeking, non-adherence to medication and poor continuation wi…
View article: Under-reporting giardiasis: time to consider the public health implications
Under-reporting giardiasis: time to consider the public health implications Open
SUMMARY Giardiasis is a treatable disease, caused by the flagellated protozoan parasite, Giardia duodenalis (G. duodenalis) . It is one of the most common enteric parasites found globally to cause gastrointestinal disturbances, and infecti…
View article: “Simply providing information”: Negotiating the ethical dilemmas of obstetric ultrasound, prenatal testing and selective termination of pregnancy
“Simply providing information”: Negotiating the ethical dilemmas of obstetric ultrasound, prenatal testing and selective termination of pregnancy Open
Obstetric ultrasound is key to opposing ways of valuing foetuses, that is, both to the ascription of foetal personhood and to foetal selection and termination of pregnancy. Whilst ultrasound images are increasingly common within the public…
View article: Issue Information ‐ TOC
Issue Information ‐ TOC Open
View article: Speculating on health: public health meets finance in ‘health impact bonds’
Speculating on health: public health meets finance in ‘health impact bonds’ Open
Where modern public health developed techniques to calculate probability, potentiality, risk and uncertainty, contemporary finance introduces instruments that redeploy these. This article traces possibilities for interrogating the connecti…
View article: The expansion and valuing of foetal measurements in obstetric ultrasound
The expansion and valuing of foetal measurements in obstetric ultrasound Open
View article: Beyond resistance: social factors in the general public response to pandemic influenza
Beyond resistance: social factors in the general public response to pandemic influenza Open
View article: Immunity, Biopolitics and Pandemics
Immunity, Biopolitics and Pandemics Open
This article examines discourse on immunity in general public engagements with pandemic influenza in light of critical theory on immuno-politics and bodily integrity. Interview and focus group discussions on influenza with members of the g…
View article: ‘Fuzzy’ virus: indeterminate influenza biology, diagnosis and surveillance in the risk ontologies of the general public in time of pandemics
‘Fuzzy’ virus: indeterminate influenza biology, diagnosis and surveillance in the risk ontologies of the general public in time of pandemics Open
© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Influenza viruses are radically uncertain, leading to scientific and procedural challenges for diagnosis and surveillance and lending influenza symptoms a high degree of indeterminacy. In time of pandemic influenza…