Nneka Emenyonu

Project Director
Medicine
+1 415 476-5806
Publications: 

Psychometric assessment of the Runyankole-translated Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale among persons with HIV in Uganda.

BMC public health

Espinosa da Silva C, Fatch R, Emenyonu N, Muyindike W, Adong J, Rao SR, Chamie G, Ngabirano C, Tumwegamire A, Kekibiina A, Marson K, Beesiga B, Sanyu N, Katusiime A, Hahn JA

Participant perspectives on incentives for TB preventative therapy adherence and reduced alcohol use: A qualitative study.

PLOS global public health

Appa A, Miller AP, Fatch R, Kekibiina A, Beesiga B, Adong J, Emenyonu N, Marson K, Getahun M, Kamya M, Muyindike W, McDonell M, Thirumurthy H, Hahn JA, Chamie G, Camlin CS

Association between smoking and lack of HIV virological suppression in a cross-sectional study of persons with HIV on antiretroviral therapy in Uganda.

PloS one

Tumwegamire A, Fatch R, Emenyonu NI, Lodi S, Muyindike WR, Kekibiina A, Adong J, Ngabirano C, Beesiga B, Marson K, Golabi N, Kamya M, Chamie G, Hahn JA

A Qualitative Exploration of Intimate Partner Violence Among HIV/TB Coinfected Persons With Problematic Alcohol Use Participating in an Incentive-Based Alcohol/Medication Adherence Intervention in Uganda During COVID-19.

Violence against women

Miller AP, Appa A, Muyindike W, Fatch R, Kekibiina A, Beesiga B, Adong J, Emenyonu N, Marson K, Getahun M, Kamya M, Chamie G, Camlin CS, Hahn JA

The Relationship between Age at Initiation of Regular Drinking of Alcohol and Viral Suppression Status, and Depression Symptoms Among People Living with HIV in South-Western Uganda.

AIDS and behavior

Odokonyero RF, Fatch R, Emenyonu NI, Cheng DM, Ngabirano C, Adong J, Muyindike WR, Nakasujja N, Camlin CS, Kamya M, Hahn JA

Financial incentives for reduced alcohol use and increased isoniazid adherence during tuberculosis preventive therapy among people with HIV in Uganda: an open-label, factorial randomised controlled trial.

The Lancet. Global health

Chamie G, Hahn JA, Kekibiina A, Emenyonu NI, Beesiga B, Marson K, Fatch R, Lodi S, Adong J, Thirumurthy H, McDonell MG, Gandhi M, Bryant K, Havlir DV, Kamya MR, Muyindike WR

Understanding Patients' Experiences with a Brief Alcohol Reduction Intervention among People Living with HIV in Uganda: A Qualitative Study.

Substance use & misuse

Gichane MW, Camlin CS, Getahun M, Emenyonu N, Woolf-King S, Sanyu N, Katusiime A, Fatch R, Muyindike W, Hahn JA

Efficacy of alcohol reduction interventions among people with HIV as evaluated by self-report and a phosphatidylethanol (PEth) outcome: protocol for a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis.

BMJ open

Kane JC, Allen I, Fatch R, Scheffler A, Emenyonu N, Puryear SB, Chirayil P, So-Armah K, Kahler CW, Magidson JF, Conroy AA, Edelman EJ, Woolf-King S, Parry C, Kiene SM, Chamie G, Adong J, Go VF, Cook RL, Muyindike W, Morojele N, Blokhina E, Krupitsky E, Fiellin DA, Hahn JA

Safety and tolerability of isoniazid preventive therapy for tuberculosis for persons with HIV with and without alcohol use: a single arm trial.

AIDS (London, England)

Hahn JA, Ngabirano C, Fatch R, Emenyonu NI, Cheng DM, Adong J, Tumwegamire A, Terrault NA, Linas BP, Jacobson KR, Muyindike WR

Effects of a COVID-19 Public Health Lockdown on Drinking and Health Behavior Among Persons with HIV and with Unhealthy Alcohol use in Uganda.

AIDS and behavior

Beesiga B, Marson K, Fatch R, Emenyonu NI, Adong J, Kekibiina A, Puryear S, Lodi S, McDonell MG, Muyindike WR, Kamya MR, Hahn JA, Chamie G

Impact of alcohol use disorder severity on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) viral suppression and CD4 count in three international cohorts of people with HIV.

Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research

Bertholet N, Saitz R, Hahn JA, Heeren TC, Emenyonu NI, Freiberg M, Winter MR, Kim TW, Magane KM, Lloyd-Travaglini C, Fatch R, Bryant K, Forman LS, Rateau L, Blokhina E, Muyindike WR, Gnatienko N, Samet JH

Effect of two counseling interventions on self-reported alcohol consumption, alcohol biomarker phosphatidylethanol (PEth), and viral suppression among persons living with HIV (PWH) with unhealthy alcohol use in Uganda: A randomized controlled trial.

Drug and alcohol dependence

Hahn JA, Fatch R, Emenyonu NI, Sanyu N, Katusiime A, Levine B, John Boscardin W, Chander G, Hutton H, Camlin CS, Woolf-King SE, Muyindike WR

Unhealthy Alcohol Use Is Associated With Suboptimal Adherence to Isoniazid Preventive Therapy in Persons With HIV in Southwestern Uganda.

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

Muyindike WR, Fatch R, Cheng DM, Emenyonu NI, Forman L, Ngabirano C, Adong J, Linas B, Jacobson KR, Hahn JA

Bar Attendance and Alcohol Use Before and After COVID-19 Related Restrictions Among HIV-infected Adults in South-Western Uganda.

AIDS and behavior

Asiimwe C, Fatch R, Cheng DM, Emenyonu NI, Ngabirano C, Muyindike WR, Hahn JA

Unhealthy alcohol use and intimate partner violence among men and women living with HIV in Uganda.

BMC public health

Miller AP, Fatch R, Lodi S, Marson K, Emenyonu N, Kekibiina A, Beesiga B, Chamie G, Muyindike WR, Hahn JA

Agreement Between Measures of Adherence to Isoniazid Preventive Therapy Among People With HIV in Uganda.

Open forum infectious diseases

Forman LS, Lodi S, Fatch R, Emenyonu NI, Adong J, Ngabirano C, Jacobson KR, Gerona R, Reckers AR, Gandhi M, Muyindike WR, Hahn JA

Alcohol Consumption and Tryptophan Metabolism Among People with HIV Prior to Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation: The Uganda ARCH Cohort Study.

Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire)

Pierre F, Forman LS, Winter M, Cheng D, Ngabirano C, Emenyonu N, Hunt PW, Huang Y, Muyindike W, Samet J, Hahn JA, So-Armah K

Concordance Between Point-of-Care Urine Ethyl Glucuronide Alcohol Tests and Self-Reported Alcohol Use in Persons with HIV in Uganda.

AIDS and behavior

Alcover KC, Emenyonu NI, Fatch R, Kekibiina A, Marson K, Chamie G, Muyindike WR, Beesiga B, Kamya MR, Lodi S, Kane JC, Hahn JA, McDonell MG

Exploring the Association Between Social Support and Hazardous Alcohol Use Among Persons Living with HIV in South Western Uganda.

AIDS and behavior

Ngabirano C, Fatch R, Muyindike WR, Emenyonu NI, Adong J, Weiser SD, Samet JH, Cheng DM, Hahn JA

Comparison of automated determination of phosphatidylethanol (PEth) in dried blood spots (DBS) with previous manual processing and testing.

Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.)

Fatch R, Luginbühl M, Cheng DM, Gaugler S, Emenyonu NI, Ngabirano C, Adong J, Muyindike WR, Samet JH, Bryant K, Hahn JA

Correlates and Effects of Alcohol Use Expectancies Among Persons Living with HIV in Uganda.

AIDS and behavior

Mutumba M, Woolf-King S, Carrico AW, Emenyonu NI, Fatch R, Kekibiina A, Muyindike W, Hahn JA

Post-traumatic stress disorder among persons with HIV who engage in heavy alcohol consumption in southwestern Uganda.

BMC psychiatry

Kekibiina A, Adong J, Fatch R, Emenyonu NI, Marson K, Beesiga B, Lodi S, Muyindike WR, Kamya M, Chamie G, McDonell MG, Hahn JA

Heavy Alcohol Use Among Women and Men Living With HIV in Uganda, Russia, and the United States.

Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs

Gnatienko N, Calver K, Sullivan M, Forman LS, Heeren T, Blokhina E, Emenyonu N, Ventura AS, Tsui JI, Muyindike WR, Fatch R, Ngabirano C, Bridden C, Bryant K, Bazzi AR, Hahn JA

Prevalence of elevated liver transaminases and their relationship with alcohol use in people living with HIV on anti-retroviral therapy in Uganda.

PloS one

Freiman JM, Fatch R, Cheng D, Emenyonu N, Ngabirano C, Geadas C, Adong J, Muyindike WR, Linas BP, Jacobson KR, Hahn JA

The Drinkers' Intervention to Prevent Tuberculosis (DIPT) trial among heavy drinkers living with HIV in Uganda: study protocol of a 2×2 factorial trial.

Trials

Lodi S, Emenyonu NI, Marson K, Kwarisiima D, Fatch R, McDonell MG, Cheng DM, Thirumurthy H, Gandhi M, Camlin CS, Muyindike WR, Hahn JA, Chamie G

Factors associated with phosphatidylethanol (PEth) sensitivity for detecting unhealthy alcohol use: An individual patient data meta-analysis.

Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research

Hahn JA, Murnane PM, Vittinghoff E, Muyindike WR, Emenyonu NI, Fatch R, Chamie G, Haberer JE, Francis JM, Kapiga S, Jacobson K, Myers B, Couture MC, DiClemente RJ, Brown JL, So-Armah K, Sulkowski M, Marcus GM, Woolf-King S, Cook RL, Richards VL, Molina P, Ferguson T, Welsh D, Piano MR, Phillips SA, Stewart S, Afshar M, Page K, McGinnis K, Fiellin DA, Justice AC, Bryant K, Saitz R

Higher Levels of Alcohol Use Are Associated With Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Puryear SB, Fatch R, Beesiga B, Kekibiina A, Lodi S, Marson K, Emenyonu NI, Muyindike WR, Kwarisiima D, Hahn JA, Chamie G

Cultural Adaptation of an Intervention to Reduce Hazardous Alcohol Use Among People Living with HIV in Southwestern Uganda.

AIDS and behavior

Leddy AM, Hahn JA, Getahun M, Emenyonu NI, Woolf-King SE, Sanyu N, Katusiime A, Fatch R, Chander G, Hutton HE, Muyindike WR, Camlin CS

Tuberculin skin test positivity among HIV-infected alcohol drinkers on antiretrovirals in south-western Uganda.

PloS one

Muyindike WR, Fatch R, Cheng DM, Emenyonu NI, Ngabirano C, Adong J, Linas BP, Jacobson KR, Hahn JA

Assessing the interaction between depressive symptoms and alcohol use prior to antiretroviral therapy on viral suppression among people living with HIV in Rural Uganda.

AIDS care

Foley JD, Sheinfil A, Woolf-King SE, Fatch R, Emenyonu NI, Muyindike WR, Kekibiina A, Ngabirano C, Samet JH, Cheng DM, Hahn JA

Social Desirability Bias Impacts Self-Reported Alcohol Use Among Persons With HIV in Uganda.

Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research

Adong J, Fatch R, Emenyonu NI, Cheng DM, Muyindike WR, Ngabirano C, Kekibiina A, Woolf-King SE, Samet JH, Hahn JA

The Relationship Between Spirituality/Religiousness and Unhealthy Alcohol Use Among HIV-Infected Adults in Southwestern Uganda.

AIDS and behavior

Adong J, Lindan C, Fatch R, Emenyonu NI, Muyindike WR, Ngabirano C, Winter MR, Lloyd-Travaglini C, Samet JH, Cheng DM, Hahn JA

Alcohol Use and HIV Disease Progression in an Antiretroviral Naive Cohort.

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

Hahn JA, Cheng DM, Emenyonu NI, Lloyd-Travaglini C, Fatch R, Shade SB, Ngabirano C, Adong J, Bryant K, Muyindike WR, Samet JH

Alcohol Use and Unprotected Sex Among HIV-Infected Ugandan Adults: Findings from an Event-Level Study.

Archives of sexual behavior

Woolf-King SE, Fatch R, Cheng DM, Muyindike W, Ngabirano C, Kekibiina A, Emenyonu N, Hahn JA

Alcohol Types and HIV Disease Progression Among HIV-Infected Drinkers Not Yet on Antiretroviral Therapy in Russia and Uganda.

AIDS and behavior

Asiimwe SB, Fatch R, Patts G, Winter M, Lloyd-Travaglini C, Emenyonu N, Muyindike W, Kekibiina A, Blokhina E, Gnatienko N, Kruptisky E, Cheng DM, Samet JH, Hahn JA

Alcohol Interactive Toxicity Beliefs and ART Non-adherence Among HIV-Infected Current Drinkers in Mbarara, Uganda.

AIDS and behavior

Fatch R, Emenyonu NI, Muyindike W, Kekibiina A, Woolf-King S, Hahn JA

Vaginal Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) Is a Useful Biomarker of Semen Exposure Among HIV-Infected Ugandan Women.

AIDS and behavior

Woolf-King SE, Muyindike W, Hobbs MM, Kusasira A, Fatch R, Emenyonu N, Johnson MO, Hahn JA

Alcohol Use and Food Insecurity Among People Living with HIV in Mbarara, Uganda and St. Petersburg, Russia.

AIDS and behavior

Patts GJ, Cheng DM, Emenyonu N, Bridden C, Gnatienko N, Lloyd-Travaglini CA, Ngabirano C, Yaroslavtseva T, Muyindike WR, Weiser SD, Krupitsky EM, Hahn JA, Samet JH

Randomized Study of Assessment Effects on Alcohol Use by Persons With HIV in Rural Uganda.

Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs

Emenyonu NI, Fatch R, Muyindike WR, Kekibiina A, Woolf-King S, Hahn JA

Phosphatidylethanol confirmed alcohol use among ART-naïve HIV-infected persons who denied consumption in rural Uganda.

AIDS care

Muyindike WR, Lloyd-Travaglini C, Fatch R, Emenyonu NI, Adong J, Ngabirano C, Cheng DM, Winter MR, Samet JH, Hahn JA

Alcohol Consumption in Ugandan HIV-Infected Household-Brewers Versus Non-Brewers.

AIDS and behavior

Thakarar K, Asiimwe SB, Cheng DM, Forman L, Ngabirano C, Muyindike WR, Emenyonu NI, Samet JH, Hahn JA

Declining and rebounding unhealthy alcohol consumption during the first year of HIV care in rural Uganda, using phosphatidylethanol to augment self-report.

Addiction (Abingdon, England)

Hahn JA, Emenyonu NI, Fatch R, Muyindike WR, Kekiibina A, Carrico AW, Woolf-King S, Shiboski S

Unhealthy Alcohol Use is Associated with Monocyte Activation Prior to Starting Antiretroviral Therapy.

Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research

Carrico AW, Hunt PW, Emenyonu NI, Muyindike W, Ngabirano C, Cheng DM, Winter MR, Samet JH, Hahn JA

Comparison of Traditional and Novel Self-Report Measures to an Alcohol Biomarker for Quantifying Alcohol Consumption Among HIV-Infected Adults in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research

Asiimwe SB, Fatch R, Emenyonu NI, Muyindike WR, Kekibiina A, Santos GM, Greenfield TK, Hahn JA

Qualitative study of changes in alcohol use among HIV-infected adults entering care and treatment for HIV/AIDS in rural southwest Uganda.

AIDS and behavior

Sundararajan R, Wyatt MA, Woolf-King S, Pisarski EE, Emenyonu N, Muyindike WR, Hahn JA, Ware NC

Development and validation of the East Africa Alcohol Expectancy Scale (AFEXS).

Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs

Woolf-King SE, Fatch R, Emenyonu N, Muyindike W, Carrico AW, Maisto SA, Hahn JA

Prevalence and virologic consequences of transmitted HIV-1 drug resistance in Uganda.

AIDS research and human retroviruses

Lee GQ, Bangsberg DR, Muzoora C, Boum Y, Oyugi JH, Emenyonu N, Bennett J, Hunt PW, Knapp D, Brumme CJ, Harrigan PR, Martin JN

Self-reported alcohol abstinence associated with ART initiation among HIV-infected persons in rural Uganda.

Drug and alcohol dependence

Santos GM, Emenyonu NI, Bajunirwe F, Rain Mocello A, Martin JN, Vittinghoff E, Bangsberg DR, Hahn JA

No association found between traditional healer use and delayed antiretroviral initiation in rural Uganda.

AIDS and behavior

Horwitz RH, Tsai AC, Maling S, Bajunirwe F, Haberer JE, Emenyonu N, Muzoora C, Hunt PW, Martin JN, Bangsberg DR

Self-Report of Alcohol Use Increases When Specimens for Alcohol Biomarkers Are Collected in Persons With HIV in Uganda.

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

Hahn JA, Fatch R, Kabami J, Mayanja B, Emenyonu NI, Martin J, Bangsberg DR

Contraceptive use and associated factors among women enrolling into HIV care in southwestern Uganda.

Infectious diseases in obstetrics and gynecology

Muyindike W, Fatch R, Steinfield R, Matthews LT, Musinguzi N, Emenyonu NI, Martin JN, Hahn JA

Sexual relationship power and malnutrition among HIV-positive women in rural Uganda.

AIDS and behavior

Siedner MJ, Tsai AC, Dworkin S, Mukiibi NF, Emenyonu NI, Hunt PW, Haberer JE, Martin JN, Bangsberg DR, Weiser SD

Rethinking the "pre" in pre-therapy counseling: no benefit of additional visits prior to therapy on adherence or viremia in Ugandans initiating ARVs.

PloS one

Siedner MJ, Lankowski A, Haberer JE, Kembabazi A, Emenyonu N, Tsai AC, Muzoora C, Geng E, Martin JN, Bangsberg DR

Food insecurity is associated with morbidity and patterns of healthcare utilization among HIV-infected individuals in a resource-poor setting.

AIDS (London, England)

Weiser SD, Tsai AC, Gupta R, Frongillo EA, Kawuma A, Senkungu J, Hunt PW, Emenyonu NI, Mattson JE, Martin JN, Bangsberg DR

Phosphatidylethanol (PEth) as a biomarker of alcohol consumption in HIV-positive patients in sub-Saharan Africa.

Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research

Hahn JA, Dobkin LM, Mayanja B, Emenyonu NI, Kigozi IM, Shiboski S, Bangsberg DR, Gnann H, Weinmann W, Wurst FM

Impact of CD8+ T-cell activation on CD4+ T-cell recovery and mortality in HIV-infected Ugandans initiating antiretroviral therapy.

AIDS (London, England)

Hunt PW, Cao HL, Muzoora C, Ssewanyana I, Bennett J, Emenyonu N, Kembabazi A, Neilands TB, Bangsberg DR, Deeks SG, Martin JN

The social context of food insecurity among persons living with HIV/AIDS in rural Uganda.

Social science & medicine (1982)

Tsai AC, Bangsberg DR, Emenyonu N, Senkungu JK, Martin JN, Weiser SD

Retention in care and connection to care among HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy in Africa: estimation via a sampling-based approach.

PloS one

Geng EH, Glidden DV, Bwana MB, Musinguzi N, Emenyonu N, Muyindike W, Christopoulos KA, Neilands TB, Yiannoutsos CT, Deeks SG, Bangsberg DR, Martin JN

Regional anthropometry changes in antiretroviral-naïve persons initiating a Zidovudine-containing regimen in Mbarara, Uganda.

AIDS research and human retroviruses

Thompson V, Medard B, Taseera K, Chakera AJ, Andia I, Emenyonu N, Hunt PW, Martin J, Scherzer R, Weiser SD, Bangsberg DR, Tien PC

Biomarker testing to estimate under-reported heavy alcohol consumption by persons with HIV initiating ART in Uganda.

AIDS and behavior

Hahn JA, Bwana MB, Javors MA, Martin JN, Emenyonu NI, Bangsberg DR

Real-time adherence monitoring for HIV antiretroviral therapy.

AIDS and behavior

Haberer JE, Kahane J, Kigozi I, Emenyonu N, Hunt P, Martin J, Bangsberg DR

Diminishing availability of publicly funded slots for antiretroviral initiation among HIV-infected ART-eligible patients in Uganda.

PloS one

Geng EH, Bwana MB, Kabakyenga J, Muyindike W, Emenyonu NI, Musinguzi N, Mugyenyi P, Martin JN, Bangsberg DR

Tracking a sample of patients lost to follow-up has a major impact on understanding determinants of survival in HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy in Africa.

Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH

Geng EH, Glidden DV, Emenyonu N, Musinguzi N, Bwana MB, Neilands TB, Muyindike W, Yiannoutsos CT, Deeks SG, Bangsberg DR, Martin JN

Understanding reasons for and outcomes of patients lost to follow-up in antiretroviral therapy programs in Africa through a sampling-based approach.

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

Geng EH, Bangsberg DR, Musinguzi N, Emenyonu N, Bwana MB, Yiannoutsos CT, Glidden DV, Deeks SG, Martin JN

Creation and evaluation of EMR-based paper clinical summaries to support HIV-care in Uganda, Africa.

International journal of medical informatics

Were MC, Shen C, Bwana M, Emenyonu N, Musinguzi N, Nkuyahaga F, Kembabazi A, Tierney WM

Late-disease stage at presentation to an HIV clinic in the era of free antiretroviral therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

Kigozi IM, Dobkin LM, Martin JN, Geng EH, Muyindike W, Emenyonu NI, Bangsberg DR, Hahn JA

Highly active antiretroviral therapy and increased use of contraceptives among HIV-positive women during expanding access to antiretroviral therapy in Mbarara, Uganda.

American journal of public health

Andia I, Kaida A, Maier M, Guzman D, Emenyonu N, Pepper L, Bangsberg DR, Hogg RS

Alcohol use, depressive symptoms and the receipt of antiretroviral therapy in southwest Uganda.

AIDS and behavior

Martinez P, Andia I, Emenyonu N, Hahn JA, Hauff E, Pepper L, Bangsberg DR

Health information seeking among Mbararan adolescents: results from the Uganda Media and You survey.

Health education research

Ybarra ML, Emenyonu N, Nansera D, Kiwanuka J, Bangsberg DR

Profile of immunologic recovery in HIV-infected Ugandan adults after antiretroviral therapy.

AIDS research and human retroviruses

Baker CA, Emenyonu N, Ssewanyana I, Jones NG, Elrefaei M, Nghania F, Nakiwala J, Andia I, Clark R, Martin J, Bangsberg DR, Cao H

Internet use among Ugandan adolescents: implications for HIV intervention.

PLoS medicine

Ybarra ML, Kiwanuka J, Emenyonu N, Bangsberg DR

How to Take HIV antiretroviral medications on time without a watch in rural Uganda.

PLoS medicine

Maier M, Bwana M, Emenyonu N, Pepper L, Bangsberg DR