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Personal profile
Research expertise
Anne Buvé graduated as a medical doctor in 1978. In 1989-1990 she did the Msc Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine which was the start of her career in research. Between 1990 and 1994 she acted as epidemiologist on a research project examining the cost of ilness in adults in Zambia (PI: Susan Foster, lecturer health economics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). Through this work she became interested in the epidemiology of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in sub-Saharan Africa.
In 1993 she joined the Department of Microbiology at the Institute of Tropical Medicine as pre-doctoral researcher. The first project for which she took scientific responsibility was a operations research project on case detection and management of sexually transmitted infections in Mwanza, Tanzania (funded by the EC and in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). However, her main research interest was the heterogeneity of HIV epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. She coordinated a large study in four cities in sub-Saharan Africa which led her to writing a PhD entitled "Factors determining the differential spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa." (University of Antwerp, Belgium).
Research interests
- Epidemiology of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, with focus on sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia.
- Factors (biological, behavioural and contextual) that determine the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections between commercial sex workers and their clients, and among young people.
- Development of interventions to reduce the spread of HIV with a focus on young women.
Of late she also became interested in ethical issues in research conducted in low and middle income countries.
Teaching expertise
- Research Methods
- Ethics in research
- Bibliography
- HIV/AIDS Epidemiology
- TB/HIV Integration: Programmatic Aspects
Services expertise
- Member of the Institutional Review Board of ITM (chairperson 2006 - 2015).
- Reviewer for AIDS (member of the editorial board till 2015) and other journals (Tropical Medicine and International Health, The Lancet, Tubercle and Lung Diseases, Sexually Transmitted Infections, PloS One...).
- Reviews of projects for various funding agencies (The Welcome Trust, MRC, IWT, ANRS...).
- Member of advisory boards/ committees (currently Southern African Consortium of Research Excellence a Welcome Trust funded consortium).
- Member of data safety and management boards.
- External examiner for PhDs (25 since 2004): Université Libre de Bruxelles, University of Louvain, Ghent University, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of Portsmouth (UK), Univerity of Bergen (Norway), Karolinska Institute (Sweden), Univeristy of Amsterdam, Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands), University of Queensland (Australia).
Education/Academic qualification
Medical Sciences, PhD, University of Antwerp
Award Date: 1-Jul-2001
Epidemiology, Master, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
1-Oct-1989 → 1-Oct-1990
Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics, Doctor, University of Antwerp
1-Oct-1971 → 1-Jul-1978
Keywords
- B680-public-health
- B680-epidemiology
- HIV/AIDS
- Sexually transmitted infections
- research ethics
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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DAA_HepC_HIV_MS: Hepatitis C virus direct acting antiviral (DAA) treatment success and its impact on transmission dynamics in HIV/HCV co-infected MSM
Hens, N., Robaeys, G., Vandamme, A., Nevens, F., Van Wijngaerden, E., De Wit, S., Buvé, A., Van Aerde, K., Florence, E. & Ratsarahery, L.
1/01/17 → 31/12/22
Project: Research Project
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WISH: Improving HIV prevention and sexual and reproductive health care in high risk women in Rwanda using lessons learned from previous Rinda Ubuzima projects
Buvé, A., Jespers, V. & Everaert, R.
The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership
1/01/16 → 30/06/18
Project: Research Project
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Micro-contexts of malaria risk in pre-elimination settings
Bannister-Tyrrell, M. K., Buvé, A., van Hensbroek, M. B. & Bassat, Q.
29/04/15 → 18/11/19
Project: PhD-project
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HIV infection among wives of labor migrants in Nepal
Subash, T., Buvé, A., Mathei, C. & Hannes, K.
17/10/14 → 26/09/17
Project: PhD-project
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Characterisation of biofilm associated with bacterial vaginosis
Hardy, L., Buvé, A., Crucitti, T., Jespers, V. & Vaneechoutte, M.
13/02/14 → 14/10/16
Project: PhD-project
Research output
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Associations between age of menarche, early sexual debut and high-risk sexual behaviour among urban Tanzanian schoolgirls: a cross-sectional study
Whitworth, H. S., Baisley, K. J., Nnko, S., Irani, J., Andreasen, A., Changalucha, J., Crucitti, T., Francis, S., Hashim, R., Holm Hansen, C., Hayes, R. J., Buvé, A. & Watson-Jones, D., 2023, In: Tropical Medicine and International Health. 28, 3, p. 237-246 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article › peer-review
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HPV prevalence around the time of sexual debut in adolescent girls in Tanzania
Baisley, K. J., Andreasen, A., Irani, J., Nnko, S., Changalucha, J., Crucitti, T., Francis, S., Holm Hansen, C., Hayes, R. J., Buvé, A. & Watson-Jones, D., 2020, In: Sexually Transmitted Infections. 96, 3, p. 211-219 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article › peer-review
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The vaginal microbiota among adolescent girls in Tanzania around the time of sexual debut
Francis, S. C., Crucitti, T., Smekens, T., Hansen, C. H., Andreasen, A., Jespers, V., Hardy, L., Irani, J., Changalucha, J., Baisley, K., Hayes, R., Watson-Jones, D. & Buvé, A., 2020, In: Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 10, 12 p., 305.Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article › peer-review
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Ethical considerations for movement mapping to identify disease transmission hotspots
de Jong, B., Gaye, B. M., Luyten, J., van Buitenen, B., André, E., Meehan, C. J., O'Siochain, C., Tomsu, K., Urbain, J., Grietens, K. P., Njue, M. W., Pinxten, W., Gehre, F., Nyan, O., Buvé, A., Roca, A., Ravinetto, R. & Antonio, M., 2019, In: Emerging Infectious Diseases. 25, 7, p. e1-e6 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article › peer-review
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Factors influencing the risk of becoming sexually active among HIV infected adolescents in Kampala and Kisumu, East Africa
Bakeera-Kitaka, S., Smekens, T., Jespers, V., Wobudeya, E., Loos, J., Colebunders, R., Adipo, D., Kekitiinwa, A., Musoke, P., Buvé, A. & Nöstlinger, C., 2019, In: AIDS and Behavior. 23, 6, p. 1375–1386 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article › peer-review