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Kawango E. Agot
Affiliation : Impact Research and Development Organization · University of Nairobi
- 101Publications (affiliation in Kenya)
Research profile
Kawango E. Agot has 101 indexed publications (2006–2025). Their work appears mainly in “PLoS ONE”, “AIDS and Behavior” and “JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes”. Their most cited article, “Preexposure Prophylaxis for HIV Infection among African Women” (2012), has been cited 1605 times. 12 of these publications date from the last three years of activity. Their work is co-authored with at least 12 researchers, including institutions in United States, South Africa, Tanzania, Canada.
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- The effect of a social network-based intervention to promote HIV testing and linkage to HIV services among fishermen in Kenya: a cluster-randomised trial
- “There is no need to leave the beach to test”: a qualitative study of HIV self-testing knowledge and acceptability of HIV self-test kit distribution among social networks of fishermen in Western Kenya
- The effect of a social network-based intervention on adherence to HIV preexposure prophylaxis and HIV viral suppression among Kenyan fishermen
- Misconceptions and limited experience with HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among fishermen in Western Kenya: a qualitative study
- The development of a conceptual framework on PrEP stigma among adolescent girls and young women in sub‐Saharan Africa
- How men influence young women taking PrEP: perspectives from young women, male partners, and male peers in Siaya county, Western Kenya
- Using FRAME to characterize provider‐identified adaptations to a stepped care intervention for adolescents and youth living with HIV in Kenya: a mixed methods approach
- Breaking down relationship barriers to increase PrEP uptake and adherence among adolescent girls and young women in Kenya: safety and preliminary effectiveness results from a pilot cluster‐randomized trial
- Navigating antiretroviral adherence in boarding secondary schools in Nairobi, Kenya: A qualitative study of adolescents living with HIV, their caregivers and school nurses
- Individual-, Interpersonal- and Institutional-Level Factors Associated with HIV Stigma Among Youth in Kenya
- Access to Oral Fluid-Based Human Immunodeficiency Virus Self-Tests Increases Testing Among Male Partners of Adolescent Girls in Kenya: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- ‘I feel that I should decide on my own….’: who should be involved in the decision-making process for adolescent involvement in HIV research?
- Effect of HIV stigma on depressive symptoms, treatment adherence, and viral suppression among youth with HIV
- Integrated Health Care Delivery for Adolescents Living with and at Risk of HIV Infection: A Review of Models and Actions for Implementation
- Testing a social network approach to promote HIV self-testing and linkage to care among fishermen at Lake Victoria: study protocol for the Owete cluster randomized controlled trial
- “I didn’t support PrEP because I didn’t know what it was”: Inadequate information undermines male partner support for young women’s pre-exposure prophylaxis use in western Kenya
- Adoption of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among women at high risk of HIV infection in Kenya
- Episodic Use of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Among Young Cisgender Women in Siaya County, Kenya
- Data-informed stepped care to improve youth engagement in HIV care in Kenya: a protocol for a cluster randomised trial of a health service intervention
- HIV testing approaches to reach the first UNAIDS 95% target in sub-Saharan Africa
- Giving voice to the end-user: input on multipurpose prevention technologies from the perspectives of young women in Kenya and South Africa
- Life in the Balance: Young Female Sex Workers in Kenya Weigh the Risks of COVID-19 and HIV
- Male Circumcision Reduces Penile HPV Incidence and Persistence: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya
- Tu'Washindi na PrEP: Working With Young Women and Service Providers to Design an Intervention for PrEP Uptake and Adherence in the Context of Gender-Based Violence
- Health and Economic Outcomes Associated With COVID-19 in Women at High Risk of HIV Infection in Rural Kenya
- Testing strategies for couple engagement in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and family health in Kenya: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
- Mapping geographic clusters of new HIV diagnoses to inform granular-level interventions for HIV epidemic control in western Kenya
- The Psychosocial Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Youth Living with HIV in Western Kenya
- Male partner testing and sexual behaviour following provision of multiple HIV self‐tests to Kenyan women at higher risk of HIV infection in a cluster randomized trial
- Preferred HIV Testing Modalities Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Kenya
- HIV Self-Testing Can Be Liberating to HIV-Positive Women and Their Sexual Partners: A Qualitative Study in Kisumu, Western Kenya
- Young Women's Stated Preferences for Biomedical HIV Prevention: Results of a Discrete Choice Experiment in Kenya and South Africa
- “We are not the same”: African women’s view of multipurpose prevention products in the TRIO clinical study
- Pr EP and the syndemic of substance use, violence, and HIV among female and male sex workers: a qualitative study in Kisumu, Kenya
- Two Birds with One Stone: Health Care Providers’ Perspectives about Prevention Technologies in Kenya and South Africa
- The Tablets, Ring, Injections as Options ( TRIO ) study: what young African women chose and used for future HIV and pregnancy prevention
- Young Women’s Ratings of Three Placebo Multipurpose Prevention Technologies for HIV and Pregnancy Prevention in a Randomized, Cross-Over Study in Kenya and South Africa
- You can’t do this job when you are sober: Heroin use among female sex workers and the need for comprehensive drug treatment programming in Kenya
- Willingness to Pay for HIV Self-Tests Among Women in Kenya: Implications for Subsidy and Pricing Policies
- A qualitative study of secondary distribution of HIV self-test kits by female sex workers in Kenya
- End-Users’ Product Preference Across Three Multipurpose Prevention Technology Delivery Forms: Baseline Results from Young Women in Kenya and South Africa
- The potential impact and cost of focusing HIV prevention on young women and men: A modeling analysis in western Kenya
- High-Yield HIV Testing, Facilitated Linkage to Care, and Prevention for Female Youth in Kenya (GIRLS Study): Implementation Science Protocol for a Priority Population
- Predictors of voluntary medical male circumcision prevalence among men aged 25-39 years in Nyanza region, Kenya: Results from the baseline survey of the TASCO study
- Perspectives on biomedical HIV prevention options among women who inject drugs in Kenya
- Promoting male partner HIV testing and safer sexual decision making through secondary distribution of self-tests by HIV-negative female sex workers and women receiving antenatal and post-partum care in Kenya: a cohort study
- Promoting Partner Testing and Couples Testing through Secondary Distribution of HIV Self-Tests: A Randomized Clinical Trial
- When and why women might suspend PrEP use according to perceived seasons of risk: implications for PrEP-specific risk-reduction counselling
- The Effects of Providing Fixed Compensation and Lottery-Based Rewards on Uptake of Medical Male Circumcision in Kenya: A Randomized Trial
- An ethnographic exploration of drug markets in Kisumu, Kenya
- Medroxyprogesterone acetate levels among Kenyan women using depot medroxyprogesterone acetate in the FEM-PrEP trial
- Use of Economic Compensation to Increase Demand for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Kenya: Qualitative Interviews With Male Participants in a Randomized Controlled Trial and Their Partners
- Injectable Progestin‐Only Contraception is Associated With Increased Levels of Pro‐Inflammatory Cytokines in the Female Genital Tract
- Facilitators of Adherence to the Study Pill in the FEM-PrEP Clinical Trial
- The Science of Being a Study Participant
- Loss to follow-up among youth accessing outpatient HIV care and treatment services in Kisumu, Kenya
- Human Resource Challenges to Integrating HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) into the Public Health System in Kenya: A Qualitative Study.
- Evidence of injection drug use in Kisumu, Kenya: Implications for HIV prevention
- Prevalence and Correlates of HIV Infection among Street Boys in Kisumu, Kenya
- Motivations for Reducing Other HIV Risk-Reduction Practices if Taking Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: Findings from a Qualitative Study Among Women in Kenya and South Africa
- FEM-PrEP
- Effect of Providing Conditional Economic Compensation on Uptake of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Kenya
- Barriers and facilitators to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) eligibility screening and ongoing HIV testing among target populations in Bondo and Rarieda, Kenya: Results of a consultation with community stakeholders
- “It is all about the fear of being discriminated [against]…the person suffering from HIV will not be accepted”: a qualitative study exploring the reasons for loss to follow-up among HIV-positive youth in Kisumu, Kenya
- Perception of HIV Risk and Adherence to a Daily, Investigational Pill for HIV Prevention in FEM-PrEP
- Accuracy of Self-Report and Pill-Count Measures of Adherence in the FEM-PrEP Clinical Trial: Implications for Future HIV-Prevention Trials
- A descriptive analysis of perceptions of HIV risk and worry about acquiring HIV among FEM‐PrEP participants who seroconverted in Bondo, Kenya, and Pretoria, South Africa
- Risk Compensation Following Male Circumcision: Results from a Two-Year Prospective Cohort Study of Recently Circumcised and Uncircumcised Men in Nyanza Province, Kenya
- Widow cleansing and inheritance among the Luo in Kenya: the need for additional women‐centred HIV prevention options
- Acquisition and Persistence of Human Papillomavirus 16 (HPV-16) and HPV-18 Among Men With High-HPV Viral Load Infections in a Circumcision Trial in Kisumu, Kenya
- “This is the medicine:” A Kenyan community responds to a sexual concurrency reduction intervention
- Field Study of Adult Male Circumcision Using the ShangRing in Routine Clinical Settings in Kenya and Zambia
- Surgical Efficiencies and Quality in the Performance of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) Procedures in Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe
- The Sexual Risk Context among the FEM-PrEP Study Population in Bondo, Kenya and Pretoria, South Africa
- The long-term efficacy of medical male circumcision against HIV acquisition
- Medical Male Circumcision and Herpes Simplex Virus 2 Acquisition: Posttrial Surveillance in Kisumu, Kenya
- Implementing good participatory practice guidelines in the FEM-PrEP Preexposure Prophylaxis Trial for HIV Prevention among African Women: a focus on local stakeholder involvement
- Risk of HIV acquisition among circumcised and uncircumcised young men with penile human papillomavirus infection
- Preexposure Prophylaxis for HIV Infection among African Women
- Factors associated with the safety of voluntary medical male circumcision in Nyanza province, Kenya
- Factors Associated With Uptake of Infant Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in Western Kenya
- Safety of over Twelve Hundred Infant Male Circumcisions Using the Mogen Clamp in Kenya
- Sexual behaviour and less frequent bathing are associated with higher human papillomavirus incidence in a cohort study of uncircumcised Kenyan men
- Vaccine-Relevant Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infections and Future Acquisition of High-Risk HPV Types in Men
- Acceptability of Medical Male Circumcision Among Uncircumcised Men in Kenya One Year After the Launch of the National Male Circumcision Program
- Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision: Translating Research into the Rapid Expansion of Services in Kenya, 2008–2011
- Circumcision preference among women and uncircumcised men prior to scale-up of male circumcision for HIV prevention in Kisumu, Kenya
- Implementing Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in Nyanza Province, Kenya: Lessons Learned during the First Year
- Male circumcision is associated with a lower prevalence of human papillomavirus‐associated penile lesions among Kenyan men
- Factors Associated with the Early Resumption of Sexual Activity Following Medical Male Circumcision in Nyanza Province, Kenya
- Multiple Human Papillomavirus Infections and Type Competition in Men
- HPV vaccine acceptability among Kenyan women
- Increased Risk of HIV Acquisition among Kenyan Men with Human Papillomavirus Infection
- Male circumcision for HIV prevention: current research and programmatic issues
- Abundant Expression of HIV Target Cells and C-Type Lectin Receptors in the Foreskin Tissue of Young Kenyan Men
- Widow Inheritance and HIV Prevalence in Bondo District, Kenya: Baseline Results from a Prospective Cohort Study
- Adult Male Circumcision Does Not Reduce the Risk of Incident Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, or Trichomonas vaginalis Infection: Results from a Randomized, Controlled Trial in Kenya
- Male Circumcision is an Efficacious, Lasting and Cost-Effective Strategy for Combating HIV in High-Prevalence AIDS Epidemics
- Is Male Circumcision as Good as the HIV Vaccine We‘Ve Been Waiting For?
- Male Circumcision in Siaya and Bondo Districts, Kenya
Publication venues
- PLoS ONE × 12
- AIDS and Behavior × 9
- JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes × 9
- Journal of the International AIDS Society × 8
- The Journal of Infectious Diseases × 6
- AIDS × 5
Publications per year
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Collaborations
Partner institutions : Kenya Medical Research Institute · Nyanza Reproductive Health Society · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Kenyatta National Hospital · University of Illinois Chicago
Co-authors’ countries : United States · South Africa · Tanzania · Canada
Co-authors
- Jeckoniah O. Ndinya‐Achola
- Elizabeth Anne Bukusi
- Jacob O. Odhiambo
- Zachary Kwena
- Spala Ohaga
- Jacinta Badia
- Jacob Onyango
- Benard O. Ayieko
- James Kibugi
- Eunice Omanga
- Sophie Otticha
- Irene W. Inwani
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