{"id":9499,"date":"2019-03-22T15:40:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/?page_id=9499"},"modified":"2019-06-20T13:32:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T17:32:34","slug":"newsletter-20","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/newsletter-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Volume 6, Issue 1<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">January 2019 &#8211;\u00a0March 2019<\/span><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h1 style=\"font-size: 14px; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Check out the current issue of URBAN ARCH News, the quarterly newsletter bringing you news based on the latest URBAN ARCH and related research.<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/urban-arch-study-update\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hitting the Half-Way Mark with ADEPTT, St PETER, and 4-F<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/urbanarch\/files\/2019\/03\/Cover-collage-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/urbanarch\/files\/2019\/03\/Cover-collage-2-636x163.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"163\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2019\/03\/Cover-collage-2-636x163.png 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2019\/03\/Cover-collage-2-768x197.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2019\/03\/Cover-collage-2-1024x263.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2019\/03\/Cover-collage-2.png 1253w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span>In this edition of the newsletter, as a preview for the 2019 URBAN ARCH Annual Meeting, we will highlight study updates from the three cohorts that make up URBAN ARCH.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;\"><a title=\"News Archive\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/homepage\/news-archive\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #000000;\" rel=\"noopener\">In the News<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The URBAN ARCH Annual Meeting will take place April 9-10, 2019, at the Boston University Medical Campus. More information on the meeting can be found <span><a href=\"http:\/\/events.r20.constantcontact.com\/register\/event?oeidk=a07eg11as5ye455f4cb&amp;llr=d8srrpqab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Symposium accepted at\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsoa.org\/2019meeting\">Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA) 2019<\/a><span>: \u201cHIV, Alcohol and Comorbidity: From the Microbiome and Immunity to Clinical Outcomes.\u201d Dr. Richard Saitz is organizing the symposium.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Congratulations to Karen Jacobson for receiving a BU CTSI Pilot Award for the project: \u201cA Mixed Methods Study Comparing Longitudinal, Repeated Phosphatidylethanol (PEth) to Self-reported Alcohol Consumption to Assess Changes in Alcohol Use and Readiness for Intervention during Tuberculosis Treatment\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Abstract accepted for a poster and oral presentation at the <a href=\"https:\/\/cpdd.org\/\">College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) 2019<\/a>: Polysubstance use patterns and HIV disease severity among those with substance use disorder: Latent class analysis (Bertholet et al.).<\/li>\n<li>Abstract accepted for a poster and oral presentation at the <a href=\"https:\/\/cpdd.org\/\">College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) 2019<\/a>: Substance use and quality of life in an urban cohort of people living with HIV and substance dependence (Rawlins-Pilgrim et al.).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/spotlight-on-natalia-gnatienko\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/a><a href=\"\/urbanarch\/files\/2019\/03\/Gnatienko_Natalia-2-5x3-5-2-454x636.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/urbanarch\/files\/2019\/03\/Gnatienko_Natalia-2-5x3-5-2-454x636-454x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"84\" class=\" wp-image-9524 alignleft\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/spotlight-on-natalia-gnatienko\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotlight on&#8230;Natalia Gnatienko<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this issue, we interview Natalia Gnatienko, MPH, a Senior Research Manager at Boston Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;\"><span><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/core-and-cohort-updates-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;\">On The Ground<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Click on the buttons to see what the URBAN ARCH Cohorts and Cores have been working on.<\/span><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" style=\"font-family: arial; color: black; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: middle;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr align=\"center\">\n<td width=\"92\" style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/core-and-cohort-updates-21\/#admincore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"108\" height=\"30\" title=\"Admin Core\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1723 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2014\/04\/Admin-Core1.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"92\" style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/core-and-cohort-updates-21\/#bdmcore\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #000000;\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"108\" height=\"30\" title=\"BDM Core\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1725 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2014\/04\/BDM-Core.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"92\" style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/core-and-cohort-updates-21\/#uganda\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #000000;\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"108\" height=\"30\" title=\"Uganda Cohort\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1726 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2014\/04\/Uganda-Cohort.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"92\" style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/core-and-cohort-updates-21\/#russia\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #000000;\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"108\" height=\"30\" title=\"Russia Cohort\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1727 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2014\/04\/Russia-Cohort.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"92\" style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/core-and-cohort-updates-21\/#boston\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #000000;\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"108\" height=\"30\" title=\"Boston Cohort\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1728\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/files\/2014\/04\/Boston-Cohort.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;\">Article Spotlight<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;\"><em>This section highlights and provides brief summaries of URBAN ARCH research and their clinical significance.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Serodiscordant Partnerships Among People Living With HIV Who Inject Drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia Offer Opportunities for HIV Prevention <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russia has a high rate of HIV infection and the incidence is increasing, driven in part by injection drug use. Russia ARCH researchers conducted a secondary analysis of an observational cohort study of people living with HIV (PLWH) who have ever injected drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia, examining the frequency with which they are partnered (i.e., married, in a domestic partnership\/living with partner, or in a \u201clong-term relationship\u201d), whether that partner had HIV, and whether there were differences by gender. They also assessed awareness of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and perceived partner interest in PrEP among a subsample of study participants.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At baseline, 50% (147\/296) of the cohort reported being in a partnership, and of those, 35% were serodiscordant.<\/li>\n<li>After adjustment, women had significantly higher odds of being partnered compared with men (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 3.12), but there were no gender differences in the odds of being in a serodiscordant partnership.<\/li>\n<li>Among a sub-sample of participants queried (n=56), 25% were aware of PrEP for prevention of sexual HIV transmission and 14% for prevention of injection-related transmission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Comments<\/em>: Substantial opportunities for HIV prevention exist among PLWH who have ever injected drugs in Russia and their HIV-negative partners. Given the high proportion of HIV-negative partners among this antiretroviral treatment-na\u00efve sample, efforts to address the associated inherent risks, such as couples-based interventions, are needed to increase condom use, PrEP awareness, or uptake of other HIV-prevention modalities (e.g., ART for the HIV-positive partner).<\/p>\n<p><em>Reference<\/em>: Gnatienko N, Wagman JA, Cheng DM, et al. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/30444903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Serodiscordant partnerships and opportunities for pre-exposure prophylaxis among partners of women and men living with HIV in St. Petersburg, Russia<\/a>. <em>PLoS One<\/em>. 2018;13(11):e0207402.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;\"><a title=\"Selected Funding Opportunities\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/resources\/selected-funding-opportunities\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #000000;\" rel=\"noopener\">Selected NIH Notices and Funding Opportunities<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span><strong>Special Interest on Methodological Advances to Improve Alcohol Measurement and its Consequences for People Living with HIV who have Comorbidities, Coinfections, and Complications (<a href=\"https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/notice-files\/NOT-AA-19-006.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NOT-AA-19-006<\/a>)<br \/>\n<\/strong>National Institute of\u00a0Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism\u00a0<\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Special Interest on Development and Dissemination of Behavioral Treatments for Alcohol Use Disorder<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/notice-files\/NOT-AA-19-010.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NOT-AA-19-010)<\/a><span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>National Institute of\u00a0Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Click<span>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a title=\"Selected Funding Opportunities\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/resources\/selected-funding-opportunities\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>for more funding announcements related to HIV and alcohol research.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;\"><a title=\"Events and Conferences\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/resources\/upcoming-events-and-conferences\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #000000;\" rel=\"noopener\">Events and Conferences<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>Please email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Carly.Bridden@bmc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carly Bridden<\/a>\u00a0if you will be attending any these meetings, so we can connect you with our investigators.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asam.org\/education\/live-online-cme\/the-asam-annual-conference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM)<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>April 4-7, 2019; Orlando, FL<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.sgim.org\/sgim19\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM)<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0May 8-11 2019; Washington D.C.<\/li>\n<li><span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cpdd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD)<\/a><\/strong><\/span>: June 15-19, 2019; San Antonio, TX<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsoa.org\/2019meeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA)<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0June 22-26, 2019; Minneapolis, MN.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ias2019.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Science:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0July 21-24, 2019; Mexico City, Mexico.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Click<span>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a title=\"Events and Conferences\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urbanarch\/resources\/upcoming-events-and-conferences\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>for more events and conferences.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volume 6, Issue 1 January 2019 &#8211;\u00a0March 2019 Check out the current issue of URBAN ARCH News, the quarterly newsletter bringing you news based on the latest URBAN ARCH and related research. 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