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Ariane van der Straten

Director, Women’s Global Health Imperative

Ariane van der Straten is senior research scientist and director of the Women's Global Health Imperative within RTI, and associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Her major research interests are behavioral and biomedical interventions for prevention of heterosexual transmission of HIV in the U.S. and Africa. She focuses on female-initiated methods and adherence-related issues in the context of prevention trials, using quantitative and qualitative research methods. Dr. van der Straten has played a crucial role in the development and implementation of several major research projects, such as the Methods for Improving Reproductive Health in Africa trial. Currently, she is part of the protocol team for VOICE (a phase IIb trial of daily Tenofovir gel, oral Truvada, or Tenofovir tablets) and co-chair of a qualitative ancillary study to VOICE, focusing on the context of adherence to microbicides and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in Africa.

Education

MPH, Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health; PhD, Zoology (summa cum laude), University of Brussels, Laboratory of Genetics; BS (summa cum laude), Zoology-Molecular Biology, University of Louvain, Belgium.

Publications

Methodological Lessons from Clinical Trials and the Future of Microbicide Research — Curr HIV/AIDS Rep
van der Straten, A., Montgomery, E.T., Hartmann, M., & Minnis, A. (Mar 2013)
Oral and injectable contraception use and risk of HIV acquisition among women in the methods for improving reproductive health in Africa (MIRA) study — AIDS
McCoy, S.I., Zheng, W., Montgomery, E., Blanchard, K., van der Straten, A., de Bryn, G., et al. (Mar 2013)
Feasibility, Performance, and Acceptability of the Wisebag for Potential Monitoring of Daily Gel Applicator Use in Durban, South Africa — AIDS and Behavior
van der Straten, A., Montgomery, E., Pillay, D., Cheng, H., Naidoo, A., Cele, Z., Naidoo, K., Hartmann, M., et al. (Feb 2013)
A Novel Breath Test to Directly Measure Use of Vaginal Gel and Condoms — AIDS and Behavior
van der Straten, A., Cheng, H., Wasdo, S., Montgomery, L., Smith-McCune, K., Booth, M., et al. (Jan 2013)
Acceptability in microbicide and PrEP trials: Current status and a reconceptualization — Curr Opin HIV AIDS
Mensch, B.S., van der Straten, A., & Katzen, L.L. (Nov 2012)
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