Expertise and Research Interests

I am an HIV and sexual health trainee.  In my day to day clinical practice I screen, diagnose and treat sexually transmitted infections.  I also care for our HIV positive cohort who does vary in complexity from well controlled patients to more complex ones with multiple comorbdities, resistance and complicated ARV drug regimens.  I am also a PrEP prescriber and I am a subinvestigator in the PrEP IMPACT trial which is ongoing in the UK. I am also involved in HIV prevention campaigns educating high risk groups about safer sex, PEPSE and PrEP. I also do outreach clinics to reach hard to engage groups like sex workers, migrants and inmates. Because I practice on a small island where everyone knows each other and HIV stigma is very real, I have an active role in breaking the taboo and stigma around HIV and stopping discrimination.

Other than participating in trials, I am also involved in guideline writing – both at a national and international level.  The 2 guidelines I contributed to include International guidelines on sexual consultation as well as local guidelines on the management of opportunistic infections in HIV positive individuals.

My other area of expertise is managing HIV in pregnant mothers ensuring that they have an uneventful pregnancy, supporting them taking antiretrovirals during pregnancy and liaising with the obstetricians with regards to neonatal PEP  to make sure we avoid mother to child transmission.