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Wendee M. Wechsberg is affiliated with the Research Triangle Park Foundation in the United States. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with significant contributions in subfields such as General Health Professions, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Economics and Econometrics, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their research covers multiple interconnected topics, including:

  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects

Among their recent published papers are:

  • "The PrEPARE Pretoria Project: protocol for a cluster-randomized factorial-design trial to prevent HIV with PrEP among adolescent girls and young women in Tshwane, South Africa," 2020, BMC Public Health
  • "Outcomes of Implementing in the Real World the Women's Health CoOp Intervention in Cape Town, South Africa," 2021, AIDS and Behavior

Other relevant papers linked to the scope of their work, authored by collaborators in the field, include:

  • "Gender Dynamics in Substance Use and Treatment," 2021, Medical Clinics of North America
  • "Stigma in the health clinic and implications for PrEP access and use by adolescent girls and young women: conflicting perspectives in South Africa," 2022, BMC Public Health
  • "Substance use and depressive and anxiety symptoms among out-of-school adolescent girls and young women in Cape Town, South Africa," 2020, South African Medical Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wendee M. Wechsberg include:

  • Felicia A. Browne
  • Courtney Peasant Bonner
  • Bronwyn Myers
  • Brittni N. Howard
  • Tara Carney

The primary publication venues for their work include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • BMC Public Health
  • AIDS and Behavior
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • South African Medical Journal

Best Publications

  • Substance use, sexual risk, and violence: HIV prevention intervention with sex workers in Pretoria.

    Wendee M. Wechsberg;Winnie K. Luseno;Wendy K.K. Lam;Charles D.H. Parry

  • How Are Women Who Enter Substance Abuse Treatment Different Than Men?: A Gender Comparison from the Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Study (DATOS)

    Wendee M. Wechsberg;S. Gail Craddock Ms;Robert L. Hubbard

  • Efficacy of a Woman-Focused Intervention to Reduce HIV Risk and Increase Self-Sufficiency Among African American Crack Abusers

    Wendee M. Wechsberg;Wendy K. K. Lam;William A. Zule;Georgiy Bobashev

  • Violence against substance-abusing South African sex workers: intersection with culture and HIV risk.

    Wendee M. Wechsberg;Winnie K. Luseno;Wendy K. K. Lam

  • Violence, Homelessness, and HIV Risk Among Crack-Using African-American Women

    Wendee M. Wechsberg;Wendy K. K. Lam;William A. Zule;Grace Hall

  • Alcohol, cannabis, and methamphetamine use and other risk behaviours among Black and Coloured South African women: a small randomized trial in the Western Cape.

    Wendee M. Wechsberg;Winnie K. Luseno;Rhonda S. Karg;Siobhan Young

  • Dual HIV risk and vulnerabilities among women who use or inject drugs: no single prevention strategy is the answer.

    Nabila El-Bassel;Wendee M. Wechsberg;Stacey A. Shaw

  • Research on women with substance use disorders: Reviewing progress and developing a research and implementation roadmap

    Jaimie P. Meyer;Krystyna Isaacs;Omar El-Shahawy;A. Kathleen Burlew

  • Methamphetamine use and risky sexual behaviors during heterosexual encounters.

    William A. Zule;Elizabeth C. Costenbader;William J. Meyer;Wendee M. Wechsberg

  • The effect of treatment completion and length of stay on employment and crime in outpatient drug-free treatment

    Gary A Zarkin;Laura J Dunlap;Jeremy W Bray;Wendee M Wechsberg

  • Correlates of exchanging sex for drugs or money among women who use crack cocaine.

    Jessica M. Edwards;Carolyn T. Halpern;Wendee M. Wechsberg

  • Transactional sex among men and women in the south at high risk for HIV and other STIs.

    Georgiy V. Bobashev;William A. Zule;Karen C. Osilla;Tracy L. Kline

  • "Not on the agenda": A qualitative study of influences on health services use among poor young women who use drugs in Cape Town, South Africa.

    Bronwyn Myers;Bronwyn Myers;Tara Carney;Wendee M. Wechsberg

  • Double jeopardy--drug and sex risks among Russian women who inject drugs: initial feasibility and efficacy results of a small randomized controlled trial.

    Wendee M Wechsberg;Evgeny Krupitsky;Tatiana Romanova;Edwin Zvartau

  • Behaviorally bisexual men and their risk behaviors with men and women

    William A. Zule;Georgiy V. Bobashev;Wendee M. Wechsberg;Elizabeth C. Costenbader

  • Sexual Pleasure and Sexual Risk among Women who Use Methamphetamine: A Mixed Methods Study

    Jennifer Lorvick;Philippe Bourgois;Lynn D. Wenger;Sonya G. Arreola

  • Couple-based behavioral HIV interventions: Placing HIV risk-reduction responsibility and agency on the female and male dyad.

    Nabila El-Bassel;Wendee M. Wechsberg

  • Substance use and sexual risk within the context of gender inequality in South Africa.

    Wendee M. Wechsberg;Winnie Luseno;Kara Riehman;Rhonda Karg

  • A brief intervention for drug use, sexual risk behaviours and violence prevention with vulnerable women in South Africa: a randomised trial of the Women’s Health CoOp

    Wendee M Wechsberg;Rachel Jewkes;Rachel Jewkes;Scott P Novak;Tracy Kline

  • Methamphetamine (“tik”) Use and Its Association with Condom Use among Out-of-School Females in Cape Town, South Africa

    Wendee M. Wechsberg;Hendree E. Jones;William A. Zule;Bronwyn J. Myers

Frequent Co-Authors

Bronwyn Myers
Bronwyn Myers South African Medical Research Council
Charles D. H. Parry
Charles D. H. Parry South African Medical Research Council
Kevin E. O'Grady
Kevin E. O'Grady University of Maryland, College Park
Linda B. Cottler
Linda B. Cottler University of Florida
Michael L. Dennis
Michael L. Dennis Research Triangle Park Foundation
Nabila El-Bassel
Nabila El-Bassel Columbia University
Carl G. Leukefeld
Carl G. Leukefeld University of Kentucky
James A. Inciardi
James A. Inciardi University of Delaware
Ilene S. Speizer
Ilene S. Speizer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Steffanie A. Strathdee
Steffanie A. Strathdee University of California, San Diego

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