Vinh-Kim Nguyen MD PhD
Vinh-Kim Nguyen is a medical anthropologist and an HIV physician. He practices at the Clinique médicale l'Actuel and in the Emergency Department at the Jewish General Hospital in Montréal (Canada). He is a researcher at the CRCHUM (Centre de recherches du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal) and is an associate professor in the Department of Social and Preventative Medicine at the University of Montreal where he heads the PhD programme in Health Promotion. He is the author of The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa's Time of AIDS; coauthor with Margaret Loc, of An Anthropology of Biomedicine and also the co-editor, with Jennifer Klot, of The Fourth Wave: Violence, Gender, Culture, and HIV in the 21st Century, and papers in HIV prevention and clinical epidemiology.
Publications since 2008
Books
2010. Nguyen, V-K. The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS. Durham: Duke University Press.
2010. Lock, M and Nguyen V-K. An Anthropology of Biomedicine. London: Wiley.
2011. Klot, J and Nguyen V-K (Editors). The Fourth Wave: Violence, Gender, Culture, and HIV in the 21st Century. New York : SSRC Press.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
2008: Sylla M, A Chamberland, C Boileau, HA Troaré, S Ag-Aboubacrine, M Cissé, S Koala, J Drabo, I Diallo, P Niamba, D Tremblay-Sher, N Machouf, S Rashed, D Nickle, V-K Nguyen, C Tremblay for the ATARAO Group. Characterization of drug resistance in antiretroviral-treated patients infected with HIV-1 CRF02_AG and AGK subtypes in Mali and Burkina Faso. Antiviral therapy. 13(1):141-8.
2008: Boileau C, V-K Nguyen, M Sylla,; N Machouf; A Chamblerland; HA Traoré, PA Niamba; I Diallo; M Maiga; M Cissé; S Rashed, C Tremblay. Low prevalence of detectable HIV plasma viraemia in patients treated with antiretroviral therapy in Burkina Faso and Mali. JAIDS. 48(4):464-472.
2009: Pirkle C, C Boileau, V-K Nguyen, N Machouf, S Ag-Aboubacrine, PA Niamba, J Drabo, S Koala, C Tremblay, S Rashed. Impact of a modified directly administered antiretroviral treatment intervention on virological outcome in HIV-patients treated in Burkina Faso and Mali. HIV Medicine 10(3):152-156.
2008: Sama, M and V-K Nguyen. Governing Health Systems in Africa. Dakar: CODESRIA Press.
2009: Ndiaye, C, C Boileau, M-V Zunzunegui, S Koala, S Ag-Aboubacrine, P Niamba, V-K Nguyen, S Rashed. Gender-related factors influencing HIV serostatus disclosure in patients receiving HAART in West Africa. World Health and Poplulation 10(3):24-35.
2009: Nguyen V-K. Government-by-exception: enrolment and experimentality in mass HIV treatment programs in Africa. Social Theory and Health 7(3):196-222.
2009: Pirkle C, C Boileau, V-K Nguyen, N Machouf, S Ag-Aboubacrine, PA Niamba, J Drabo, S Koala, C Tremblay, S Rashed. Impact of a modified directly administered antiretroviral treatment intervention on virological outcome in HIV-patients treated in Burkina Faso and Mali. HIV Medicine 10(3):152-156.
2009: Aho J, Koushik A, Diakité SL, Loua KM, Nguyen V-K, Rashed S. Biological validation of self-reported condom use among sex workers in Guinea. AIDS Behavior 14(6)1287-93.
2010: Haidara A, A Chamberland, M Sylla, SA Aboubacrine, M Cissé, HA Traoré, MY Maîga, A Tounkara, V-K Nguyen, C Tremblay. High level of primary drug resistance in Mali. HIV Medicine ll(6):404-411.
2010: Nguyen V-K. The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS. Durham: Duke University Press.
2010: Lock, M and V-K Nguyen. An Anthropology of Biomedicine. London: Wiley.
2011: Nguyen V-K, Bajos N, Dubois-Arber, O’Malley J, Pirkle CM. Remedicalising an epidemic: from HIV treatment as prevention to HIV treatment is prevention. AIDS 25(3)291-3.
2011: Pirkle CM, Nguyen V-K, Ag Aboubacrine S, Cissé M, Zunzunegui MV. Socio-demographic correlates of late treatment initiation in a cohort of patients starting antiretroviral treatment in Mali, West Africa. AIDS Care First published on: 14 June 2011 (iFirst)
2011: Sicotte M, Ledoux M, Zunzunegui MV, Ag-Aboubacrine S, Nguyen V-K. Reliability of anthropometric measures in a longitudinal cohort of patients initiating ART in West Africa. BMC Medical Research Methodology 10:102 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/10/102
2011: Klot J and V-K Nguyen (Editors). The Fourth Wave: Violence, Gender, Culture and HIV in the 21st Century. Paris and New York: UNESCO and SSRC.