Operational Lessons from Implementing Public Health Data-Based Recruitment and Home-Based STI Screening to Enroll a Cohort of Women Vulnerable to HIV in Alabama
Abstract The Camellia Cohort enrolls women with recent (past 90 days) gonorrhea or syphilis reported to the Alabama State Health Department. Eligible women are contacted to complete consenting procedures and home-based STI/HIV screening. Recruitment processes and strategies are refined based on interim findings, then modified to optimize recruitment yield.
Authors
- Aadia Rana (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1963-528X)
- Latesha E. Elopre (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3332-2300)
- Lisa Hightow‐Weidman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2421-923X)
- Henna Budhwani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6716-9754)
- Desiree Phillips (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4128-1114)
- Madeline C. Pratt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2255-0401)
- Jiaying Hao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1695-3696)
- Lynn T. Matthews (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6167-6328)
- Kara K. Bennett (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9465-8983)
- Kathleen Hurwitz
- Nuvan Rathnayaka
- Anthony Merriweather
Institutions
- Florida State University (US)
- Alabama Department of Public Health (US)
- Florida A&M University - Florida State University College of Engineering (US)
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
- Yale University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Open Forum Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2026-09-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofag609
- Primary Topic
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00