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Carlos F. Caceres

Carlos F. Caceres

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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52
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11502
World Ranking
2427
National Ranking
1

Overview

Carlos F. Caceres is affiliated with Cayetano Heredia University in Peru. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with significant contributions to subfields including physiology, infectious diseases, epidemiology, microbiology, and sociology and political science. The work spans 97 publications within these domains.

The scientist's research topics broadly include:

  • Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Reproductive Tract Infections Research
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Sex Work and Related Issues
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Virology and Viral Diseases

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Carlos F. Caceres are:

  • Kelika A. Konda (43 joint works)
  • Silver K. Vargas (35 joint works)
  • Jeffrey D. Klausner (28 joint works)
  • María Eguiluz (16 joint works)
  • Michael Reyes-Díaz (15 joint works)

The scientist has published regularly in a range of academic venues, prominent among them:

  • Acta Herediana (20 publications)
  • Poster presentations (9 publications)
  • BMC Infectious Diseases (4 publications)
  • BMC Public Health (4 publications)
  • The Lancet Regional Health - Americas (3 publications)

Selected recent papers highlight the scope and impact of their research activity:

  • "Consensus statement on the role of health systems in advancing the long-term well-being of people living with HIV," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Treponema pallidum genome sequencing from six continents reveals variability in vaccine candidate genes and dominance of Nichols clade strains in Madagascar," 2021, PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • "Recent HIV infection and annualized HIV incidence rates among sexual and gender minorities in Brazil and Peru (ImPrEP seroincidence study): a cross-sectional, multicenter study," 2023, The Lancet Regional Health - Americas
  • "Integrating HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and harm reduction among men who have sex with men and transgender women to address intersecting harms associated with stimulant use: a modelling study," 2020, Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • "Low socioeconomic status is associated with self-reported HIV positive status among young MSM in Brazil and Peru," 2021, BMC Infectious Diseases

Best Publications

  • Behavioural strategies to reduce HIV transmission: how to make them work better

    Thomas J Coates;Linda Richter;Carlos Caceres

  • Gender equality in science, medicine, and global health: where are we at and why does it matter?

    Geordan Shannon;Melanie Jansen;Kate Williams;Carlos Cáceres

  • Addressing social drivers of HIV/AIDS for the long-term response: Conceptual and methodological considerations

    Judith D. Auerbach;Justin O. Parkhurst;Carlos F. Cáceres

  • Male sex workers: practices, contexts, and vulnerabilities for HIV acquisition and transmission

    Stefan David Baral;M Reuel Friedman;Scott Geibel;Kevin Rebe

  • Defining success with HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis: a prevention-effective adherence paradigm.

    Jessica E. Haberer;David R. Bangsberg;Jared M. Baeten;Kathryn Curran

  • Synonymization of key pest species within the Bactrocera dorsalis species complex (Diptera: Tephritidae): taxonomic changes based on a review of 20 years of integrative morphological, molecular, cytogenetic, behavioural and chemoecological data

    Mark K. Schutze;Mark K. Schutze;Nidchaya Aketarawong;Weerawan Amornsak;Karen F. Armstrong

  • Understanding the HIV/AIDS epidemic in transgender women of Lima Peru: results from a sero-epidemiologic study using respondent driven sampling.

    Alfonso Silva-Santisteban;H. Fisher Raymond;Ximena Salazar;Jana Villayzan

  • Epidemiology of male same-sex behaviour and associated sexual health indicators in low- and middle-income countries: 2003–2007 estimates

    C F Cáceres;K Konda;E R Segura;R Lyerla

  • Acceptability of pre-exposure prophylaxis as an HIV prevention strategy: barriers and facilitators to pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake among at-risk Peruvian populations.

    Jerome T Galea;Janni J. Kinsler;Ximena Salazar;Sung-Jae Lee

  • HIV among gay and other men who have sex with men in Latin America and the Caribbean: a hidden epidemic?

    Carlos F Cáceres

  • Colonisation and mass rearing: learning from others

    Mark Q. Benedict;Bart G. J. Knols;Hervé C. Bossin;Paul I. Howell

  • Estimating the number of men who have sex with men in low and middle income countries.

    C Cáceres;K Konda;M Pecheny;A Chatterjee

  • AIDS in Latin America: assessing the current status of the epidemic and the ongoing response

    Francisco I Bastos;Carlos Cáceres;Jane Galvão;Maria Amélia Veras

  • Mating Incompatibility Among Populations of the South American Fruit Fly Anastrepha fraterculus (Diptera: Tephritidae)

    M. Teresa Vera;Carlos Cáceres;Viwat Wornoayporn;Amirul Islam

  • Sovereign Spreads; Global Risk Aversion, Contagion or Fundamentals?

    Miguel A. Segoviano;Carlos Caceres;Vincenzo Guzzo

  • Consensus statement on the role of health systems in advancing the long-term well-being of people living with HIV

    Jeffrey V. Lazarus;Kelly Safreed-Harmon;Adeeba Kamarulzaman;Adeeba Kamarulzaman;Jane Anderson

  • Male homosexual transmission of HIV-1.

    Caceres Cf;van Griensven Gj

  • More than just talk: the framing of transactional sex and its implications for vulnerability to HIV in Lesotho, Madagascar and South Africa

    Kirsten Stoebenau;Stephanie A. Nixon;Clara Rubincam;Samantha Willan

  • National and subnational HIV/AIDS coordination: are global health initiatives closing the gap between intent and practice?

    Neil Spicer;Julia Aleshkina;Regien Biesma;Ruairi Brugha

  • Incipient speciation revealed in Anastrepha fraterculus (Diptera; Tephritidae) by studies on mating compatibility, sex pheromones, hybridization, and cytology

    Carlos Cáceres;Diego F. Segura;M. Teresa Vera;Viwat Wornoayporn

  • Evaluating a school-based intervention for STD/AIDS prevention in Peru.

    Carlos F. Cáceres;Anna M. Rosasco;Jeffrey S. Mandel;Norman Hearst

  • Synonymization of key pest species within the Bactrocera dorsalis species complex (Diptera: Tephritidae): Taxonomic changes based on a review of 20 years of integrative morphological, molecular, cytogenetic, behavioural and chemoecological data

    Mark K. Schutze;Nidchaya Aketarawon;Weerawan Amornsak;Karen F. Armstrong

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan M. Kegeles
Susan M. Kegeles University of California, San Francisco
Peter Aggleton
Peter Aggleton University of New South Wales
Jeffrey A. Kelly
Jeffrey A. Kelly Medical College of Wisconsin
Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus
Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus University of California, Los Angeles
Richard Parker
Richard Parker Columbia University
Kevin R. O’Reilly
Kevin R. O’Reilly Medical University of South Carolina
Frederick L. Altice
Frederick L. Altice Yale University
Eduardo Gotuzzo
Eduardo Gotuzzo Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt
Tadeusz J. Kochel
Tadeusz J. Kochel Naval Medical Research Center
Linda-Gail Bekker
Linda-Gail Bekker University of Cape Town

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