Peer-reviewed journal publications authored/co-authored by C-SHaRP investigators
(Venkatesan Chakrapani and Murali Shunmugam)

  Chakrapani, V., Newman, P. A., Sebastian, A., Rawat, S., Shunmugam, M., & Sellamuthu, P. (2021). The Impact of COVID-19 on Economic Well-Being and Health Outcomes among Transgender Women in India. Transgender Health, doi: 10.1089/trgh.2020.0131. Online ahead of print [ View Liebertpub ]
     
  Chakrapani, V., Scheim, A. I., Newman, P. A., Shunmugam, M., Rawat, S., Baruah, D., . . . Kaur, M. (2021). Affirming and negotiating gender in family and social spaces: Stigma, mental health and resilience among transmasculine people in India. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 1-17. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2021.1901991 [ View PubMed ]
     
  Chakrapani, V. (2021). Need for transgender-specific data from Africa and elsewhere. The Lancet HIV. doi: 10.1016/S2352-3018(20)30344-1. [ View thelancet ]
     
  Chakrapani, V., Newman, P. A., Cameron, M., Shunmugam, M., Roungprakhon, S., Rawat, S., . . . Scarpa, R. (2021). Willingness to Use Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and Preferences Among Men Who have Sex with Men in Mumbai and Chennai, India: A Discrete Choice Experiment. AIDS Behav. doi: 10.1007/s10461-021-03253-5 [ View PubMed ]
     
  Chakrapani, V., Newman, P. A., Shunmugam, M., Rawat, S., Baruah, D., Nelson, R., . . . Tepjan, S. (2021). PrEP eligibility, HIV risk perception, and willingness to use PrEP among high-risk men who have sex with men in India: A cross-sectional survey. AIDS Care, 1-9. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2021.1887801 [ View PubMed ]
     
  Scheim, A., Kacholia, V., Logie, C., Chakrapani, V., Ranade, K., & Gupta, S. (2020). Health of transgender men in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review. BMJ Global Health, 5(11), e003471. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003471 [ View BMJ Journals ]
     
  Chan, B. T., Chakrapani, V., & Tsai, A. C. (2020). HIV-related stigma trends in the general population of India during an era of antiretroviral treatment expansion, 2005-16. J Global Health, 10(2), 020420. doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.020420 [ Download PDF]
     
  Chakrapani, V., Shunmugam, M., Rawat, S., Baruah, D., Nelson, R., & Newman, P. A. (2020). Acceptability of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Among Transgender Women in India: A Qualitative Investigation. AIDS Patient Care STDS, 34(2), 92-98. doi: 10.1089/apc.2019.0237

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  Chakrapani, V., Kaur, M., Tsai, A. C., Newman, P. A., & Kumar, R. (2020). The impact of a syndemic theory-based intervention on HIV transmission risk behaviour among men who have sex with men in India: Pretest-posttest non-equivalent comparison group trial. Social Science & Medicine, 112817. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112817 [ View PubMed ]
     
  Chakrapani, V., Shunmugam, M., Rawat, S., Baruah, D., Nelson, R., & Newman, P. A. (2020). Acceptability of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Among Transgender Women in India: A Qualitative Investigation. AIDS Patient Care STDS, 34(2), 92-98. doi: 10.1089/apc.2019.0237 [ View PubMed ]
     
  Chakrapani, V., Shaikh, S., Arumugam, V., Chawla, U., & Mehta, S. (2020). Factors Influencing Willingness to Use Human Immunodeficiency Virus Preexposure Prophylaxis Among Transgender Women in India. Transgender Health. doi: 10.1089/trgh.2019.0076 [ View liebertpub ]
     
  Yuvaraj, A., Mahendra, V. S., Chakrapani, V., Yunihastuti, E., Santella, A. J., Ranauta, A., & Doughty, J. (2020). HIV and stigma in the healthcare setting. Oral Diseases, 26(S1), 103-111. doi: 10.1111/odi.13585 [ View wiley ]
     
  Choudhary, I., Chakrapani, V., Kaur, M., Mittal, S., & Kumar, R. (2020). Factors influencing HIV testing uptake among priority populations in a resettlement colony of a North Indian city. Indian Journal of Community Health, 32(1), 35 - 44.  [ View iapsmupuk ]
     
 

Chakrapani, V., Lakshmi, P. V. M., Tsai, A. C., Vijin, P. P., Kumar, P., & Srinivas, V. (2019). The syndemic of violence victimisation, drug use, frequent alcohol use, and HIV transmission risk behaviour among men who have sex with men: Cross-sectional, population-based study in India. SSM Popul Health, 7, 100348. doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.100348

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Chakrapani, V., Subramanian, T., Vijin, P. P., Nelson, R., Shunmugam, M., & Kershaw, T. (2019). Reducing sexual risk and promoting acceptance of men who have sex with men living with HIV in India: Outcomes and process evaluation of a pilot randomised multi-level intervention. Glob Public Health, 1-14. doi:10.1080/17441692.2019.1675081

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Chakrapani, V., Willie, T. C., Shunmugam, M., & Kershaw, T. S. (2019). Syndemic Classes, Stigma, and Sexual Risk Among Transgender Women in India. AIDS Behav, 23(6), 1518-1529. doi:10.1007/s10461-018-2373-1

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Chakrapani, V., Kaur, M., Newman, P. A., Mittal, S., & Kumar, R. (2019). Syndemics and HIV-related sexual risk among men who have sex with men in India: influences of stigma and resilience. Cult Health Sex, 21(4), 416-431. doi:10.1080/13691058.2018.1486458

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  Chakrapani, V., Newman, P. A., Shunmugam, M., Logie, C. H., & Samuel, M. (2017). Syndemics of depression, alcohol use, and victimisation, and their association with HIV-related sexual risk among men who have sex with men and transgender women in India. Glob Public Health, 1-16. doi:10.1080/17441692.2015.1091024 [ View PubMed ]
     
 

Chakrapani, V., Newman, P. A., Shunmugam, M., Mengle, S., Nelson, R., Rubincam, C., & Kumar, P. (2017). “Like Holding an Umbrella Before It Rains”. Acceptability of Future Rectal Microbicides Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in India—A Modified Technology Acceptance Model. Qualitative Health Research. doi:10.1177/1049732317697947

 
     
 

Chakrapani, V., Vijin, P. P., Logie C. H., Shunmugam, M., Sivasubramanian, M., Samuel, M., Newman, P. A. (in press). Understanding how sexual and gender minority stigmas influence depression among trans women and men who have sex with men in India. LGBT Health.

 
     
 

Chakrapani, V., Vijin, P. P., Logie C. H., Newman, P. A., Shunmugam, M., Sivasubramanian, M., Samuel, M. (in press). Assessment of a ‘Transgender Identity Stigma’ Scale among Trans Women in India: Findings from Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analyses. International Journal of Transgenderism.

 
     
 

Gupta, M., Bosma, H., Angeli, F., Kaur, M., Chakrapani, V., Rana, M., & van Schayck, O. C. (2017). Impact of a Multi-Strategy Community Intervention to Reduce Maternal and Child Health Inequalities in India: A Qualitative Study in Haryana. PLoS One, 12(1), e0170175. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0170175

 
     
 

Chakrapani, V., Newman, P. A., Shunmugam, M., Mengle, S., Varghese, J., Nelson, R., & Bharat, S. (2015). Acceptability of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and Implementation Challenges Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in India: A Qualitative Investigation. AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 29(10), 569-577. doi:10.1089/apc.2015.0143

 
     
  Chakrapani, V., Shunmugam, M., Newman, P. A., Kershaw, T., & Dubrow, R. (2015). HIV Status Disclosure and Condom Use Among HIV-Positive Men Who Have Sex With Men and Hijras (Male-to-Female Transgender People) in India: Implications for Prevention. Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services, 14(1), 26-44. doi: 10.1080/15381501.2013.859113 [ Abstract ]
     
  Woodford, M. R., Chakrapani, V., Newman, P. A., & Shunmugam, M. (2015). Barriers and facilitators to voluntary HIV testing uptake among communities at high risk of HIV exposure in Chennai, India. Glob Public Health, 1-17. doi:10.1080/17441692.2015.1057757 [ View PubMed ]
     
 

Newman, P. A., Rubincam, C., Slack, C., Essack, Z., Chakrapani, V., Chuang, D. M., . . . Lindegger, G. (2015). Towards a Science of Community Stakeholder Engagement in Biomedical HIV Prevention Trials: An Embedded Four-Country Case Study. PLoS One, 10(8), e0135937. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0135937

 
     
  Subramanian, T., Chakrapani, V., Selvaraj, V., Noronha, E., Narang, A. & Mehendale, S. (2015) Mapping and Size Estimation of Hijras and Other Trans-Women in 17 States of India: First Level Findings. . International Journal of Health Sciences and Research (IJHSR), 5 (10), 1-10. Retrieved fromhttp://www.scopemed.org/fulltextpdf.php?mno=203945 [ Abstract ]
     
  Ramakrishnan, L., Ramanathan, S., Chakrapani, V., Goswami, P., Deshpande, S., Yadav, D., . . . Paranjape, R. (2015). Comparison of Sexual Risk, HIV/STI Prevalence and Intervention Exposure Among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Women (MSMW) and Men Who Have Sex with Men Only (MSMO) in India: Implications for HIV Prevention. AIDS Behav. doi: 10.1007/s10461-015-1058-2 [ Abstract ]
     
  Singh, Y., Aher, A., Shaikh, S., Mehta, S., Robertson, J., & Chakrapani, V. (In Press, 2014). Gender Transition Services for Hijras and Other Male-to-Female Transgender People in India: Availability and Barriers to Access and Use. International Journal of Transgenderism. doi: 10.1080/15532739.2014.890559 [ Full Text ]
     
  Chakrapani, V., Velayudham, J., Shunmugam, M., Newman, P. A., & Dubrow, R. (2013). Barriers to antiretroviral treatment access for injecting drug users living with HIV in Chennai, South India.AIDS Care. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2013.861573 [ View PubMed ]
 
 
  Newman, P. A., Chakrapani, V., Weaver, J., Shunmugam, M., & Rubincam, C. (2014). Willingness to participate in HIV vaccine trials among men who have sex with men in Chennai and Mumbai, India. Vaccine. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.08.043

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  Yadav, D., Chakrapani, V., Goswami, P., Ramanathan, S., Ramakrishnan, L., George, B., . . . Paranjape, R. S. (2014). Association Between Alcohol Use and HIV-Related Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM): Findings from a Multi-Site Bio-Behavioral Survey in India. AIDS Behav. doi: 10.1007/s10461-014-0699-x [ Springer Link]
     
  Chakrapani, V., Boyce, P., Newman, P. A., & Row Kavi, A. (2013). Contextual influences on condom use among men who have sex with men in India: subjectivities, practices and risks. Cult Health Sex.
doi: 10.1080/13691058.2013.798032		 [ View PubMed ]
     
  Chakrapani, V., Newman, P. A., Singhal, N., Nelson, R., & Shunmugam, M. (2013). 
"If It's Not Working, Why Would They Be Testing It?": mental models of HIV vaccine trials and preventive misconception among men who have sex with men in India. 
BMC Public Health, 13(1), 731. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-731		 [ View BMC Public Health ]
     
  Ramanathan, S., Chakrapani, V., Ramakrishnan, L., Goswami, P., Yadav, D., Subramanian, T., . . . Paranjape, R. (2013). Consistent condom use with regular, paying, and casual male partners and associated factors among men who have sex with men in Tamil Nadu, India: findings from an assessment of a large-scale HIV prevention program. BMC Public Health, 13(1), 827. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-827 [ View BMC Public Health ]
     
  Ramanathan, S., Chakrapani, V., Ramakrishnan, L., Goswami, P., Yadav, D., George, B., . . . Paranjape, R. S. (2013). Factors Associated with Use of Latex Condom-Compatible Lubricants by Men Who Have Sex with Men in India: Implications for HIV Prevention.
Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 2013, 1-7. doi: 10.1155/2013/161085		 [ View Hindawi ]
     
  Chakrapani, V., Kamei, R., Kipgen, H., Kumar, J. Kh. (2013).  Access to Harm Reduction and HIV-related Treatment Services inside Indian Prisons: Experiences of formerly Incarcerated Injecting Drug Users. International Journal of Prisoner Health, Vol. 9 Iss: 2.
URL: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17085071		 [ View Emerald ]
     
  Chakrapani, V., Newman, P. A., Singhal, N., Jerajani, J., & Shunmugam, M. (2012). Willingness to participate in HIV vaccine trials among men who have sex with men in Chennai and Mumbai, India: a social ecological approach. PLoS One, 7(12), e51080. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051080 [ View PubMed ]
     
  Chakrapani, V., Newman, P. A., Shunmugam, M., & Dubrow, R. (2011). Barriers to free antiretroviral treatment access among kothi-identified men who have sex with men and aravanis (transgender women) in Chennai, India. AIDS Care, 23(12), 1687-1694. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2011.582076 [ View PubMed ]
     
  Logie, C. H., Newman, P. A., Chakrapani, V., & Shunmugam, M. (2012). Adapting the minority stress model: associations between gender non-conformity stigma, HIV-related stigma and depression among men who have sex with men in South India. Soc Sci Med, 74(8), 1261-1268. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.01.008 [ View PubMed ]
     
  Chakrapani, V., Newman, P. A., Shunmugam, M., & Dubrow, R. (2011). Social-structural contexts of needle and syringe sharing behaviours of HIV-positive injecting drug users in Manipur, India: a mixed methods investigation. Harm Reduct J, 8, 9. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-8-9 [ View PubMed ]
     
  Chakrapani, V., Kershaw, T., Shunmugam, M., Newman, P. A., Cornman, D. H., & Dubrow, R. (2011). Prevalence of and barriers to dual-contraceptive methods use among married men and women living with HIV in India. Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol, 2011, 376432. doi: 10.1155/2011/376432 [ View PubMed ]
     
  Woodford, M. R., Newman, P. A., Chakrapani, V., Shunmugam, M., & Kakinami, L. (2012). Correlates of HIV testing uptake among kothi-identified men who have sex with men in public sex environments in Chennai, India. AIDS Behav, 16(1), 53-62. doi: 10.1007/s10461-011-9974-2 [ View PubMed ]
     
  Chakrapani, V., Newman, P. A., Shunmugam, M., & Dubrow, R. (2010). Prevalence and contexts of inconsistent condom use among heterosexual men and women living with HIV in India: implications for prevention. AIDS Patient Care STDS, 24(1), 49-58. doi: 10.1089/apc.2009.0214 [ View PubMed ]
     
  Chakrapani, V., Newman, P. A., Shunmugam, M., Kurian, A. K., & Dubrow, R. (2009). Barriers to free antiretroviral treatment access for female sex workers in Chennai, India. AIDS Patient Care STDS, 23(11), 973-980. doi: 10.1089/apc.2009.0035 [ View PubMed ]
     
  Chakrapani, V., Newman, P. A., & Shunmugam, M. (2008). Secondary HIV prevention among kothi-identified MSM in Chennai, India. Cult Health Sex, 10(4), 313-327. doi: 10.1080/13691050701816714 [ View PubMed ]
     
  Newman, P. A., Chakrapani, V., Cook, C., Shunmugam, M., & Kakinami, L. (2008). Determinants of sexual risk behavior among men who have sex with men accessing public sex environments in Chennai, India. J LGBT Health Res, 4(2-3), 81-87. [ View PubMed ]
     
  Newman, P. A., Chakrapani, V., Cook, C., Shunmugam, M., & Kakinami, L. (2008). Correlates of paid sex among men who have sex with men in Chennai, India. Sex Transm Infect, 84(6), 434-438. doi: 10.1136/sti.2008.031484 [ View PubMed ]
     
  Chakrapani, V., Newman, P. A., Shunmugam, M., McLuckie, A., & Melwin, F. (2007). Structural violence against Kothi-identified men who have sex with men in Chennai, India: a qualitative investigation. AIDS Educ Prev, 19(4), 346-364. doi: 10.1521/aeap.2007.19.4.346 [ View PubMed ]
     
  Van Rompay, K. K., Madhivanan, P., Rafiq, M., Krupp, K., Chakrapani, V., & Selvam, D. (2008). Empowering the people: development of an HIV peer education model for low literacy rural communities in India. Hum Resour Health, 6, 6. doi: 10.1186/1478-4491-6-6 [ View PubMed ]
     
  Joyee, A. G., Thyagarajan, S. P., Vikram Reddy, E., Rajendran, P., Venkatesan, C., & Ganapathy, M. (2007). Diagnostic utility of serologic markers for genital chlamydial infection in STD patients in Chennai, India. J Assoc Physicians India, 55, 777-780. [ View PubMed ]
     
  Joyee, A.G., Thyagarajan, S.P., Vikram Reddy, E., Venkatesan, C., & Ganapathy, M. (2005). Genital chlamydial infection in STD patients: Its relation to HIV infection. Ind.J. Med.Microbiol, 23 (1):37-40. [ View PubMed ]
     
  Chakrapani, V., Babu, P., & Ebenezer, T. (2004). Hijras in sex work face discrimination in the Indian health-care system. Research for Sex Work, 12-14.  
     
  Madhivanan, P., Mothi, S.N., Kumarasamy, N., Yepthomi, T., Venkatesan, C., Lambert, J.S., & Solomon, S. (2003). Clinical manifestations of HIV infected children. Indian J Pediatr,70(8):615-20. [ View PubMed ]
     
  George, J. A., Panchatcharam, T. S., Paramasivam, R., Balasubramanian, S., Chakrapani, V., & Murugan, G. (2003). Evaluation of diagnostic efficacy of PCR methods for Chlamydia trachomatis infection in genital and urine specimens of symptomatic men and women in India. Jpn J Infect Dis, 56(3), 88-92. [ View PubMed ]
     
  Joyee, A.G., Thyagarajan, S.P., Sowmya, B., Venkatesan, C., & Ganapathy, M. (2003). Need for specific & routine strategy for the diagnosis of genital chlamydial infection among patients with sexually transmitted diseases in India. Indian J Med Res, 18:152-7. [ View PubMed ]
     
Letters to Editor:  
     
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Newman, P. A., Chakrapani, V., Kavi, A. R., & Kurien, A. K. (2006). HIV-1 prevalence in young adults in south India. Lancet, 368(9530), 115; author reply 115-116. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68995-2

 
     
2 Joyee, A.G., Thyagarajan, S.P., Vikram Reddy, E., Venkatesan, C., & Ganapathy, M. (2005). Hepatitis B and C viral infections among STD clinic patients in India. Sexually transmitted Infections, 81;180. [ View PubMed ]