Mitigating HIV risk associated with widow cleansing and wife inheritance using combined biomedical and structural interventions in western Kenya: a mathematical modeling study
Widowed women are a vulnerable population with extremely high HIV prevalence. Combined biomedical and structural interventions focused on the practice of widow cleansing and wife inheritance have the potential to avert up to one-quarter of HIV infections among widowed women, and a smaller proportion among men participating in these practices.
Authors
- Viona Ojiambo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3311-5539)
- Samuel Mwalili (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9703-6514)
- Mark Kimathi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5822-8687)
- Duncan Kioi Gathungu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-2734)
- David Kaftan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0771-1353)
- Anna Bershteyn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6604-7093)
- Ingrida Platais
- Daniel Citron (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1282-4176)
- Hae‐Young Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5124-1555)
- Daniel Briedenbecker
- Clark Kirkman
Institutions
- Gates Foundation (US)
- Strathmore University (KE)
- Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (KE)
- Institute for Disease Modeling (US)
- New York University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Medicine
- Published
- 2025-02-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-03906-5
- Primary Topic
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00