{"id":11266,"date":"2011-08-04T13:31:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T18:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=11266"},"modified":"2011-08-04T13:31:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T18:31:30","slug":"professor-studying-hiv-and-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/08\/professor-studying-hiv-and-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor studying HIV and pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11267\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11267\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11267 \" title=\"Trent Newmeyer\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/trent_newmeyer.jpg\" alt=\"Trent Newmeyer\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trent Newmeyer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Trent Newmeyer is part of a team that has received $900,000 to research HIV and pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/applied-health-sciences\/academic-departments\/rec-leisure\" target=\"_blank\">Recreation and Leisure Studies<\/a> professor is part of an interdisciplinary research group that examines the health of HIV positive women during preconception, pregnancy and motherhood. The study has received three-year funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis grant gives us an opportunity to secure and expand our research holistically to include all aspects of family building,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/applied-health-sciences\/faculty-directory\/recreation-leisure-studies\/trent-newmeyer\" target=\"_blank\">Newmeyer<\/a> said. \u201cWe have an opportunity to help women have healthy pregnancies and start families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project has a number of co-investigators from medical, community, and social science perspectives. It addresses a wide range of issues regarding people with HIV having healthy pregnancies and building families.<\/p>\n<p>Newmeyer is investigating the socio-cultural factors involved in pregnancy planning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy role is to interview women living with HIV to understand the cultural and family pressures to have children and their motivations to bring children into the world,\u201d Newmeyer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen living with HIV on cART (combination anti-retroviral therapy) are living long and healthy lives, so the idea of starting a family is attractive to many. Unfortunately, not everyone (including many in the medical field) is aware of the pregnancy care breakthroughs that reduce transmission from mother-to-child to less than one per cent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This grant will help peer research assistants (other women living with HIV) conduct interviews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis approach to research allows the HIV community to shape and guide the research,\u201d he said. \u201cIt gets the HIV community actively involved in collecting more detailed and relevant results for analysis and policy change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, the number of Ontario fertility clinics accepting clients with HIV has grown from one (based in London) to seven. This research will help form a national program of research, teaching, mentoring and knowledge translation for the HIV community around family building, including pregnancy, surrogacy and adoption.<\/p>\n<p>Newmeyer\u2019s research focuses on the sociocultural aspects of HIV, including stigma and pregnancy planning. He will soon publish an article exploring couples\u2019 experiences with \u201csperm washing,\u201d a process that allows men living with HIV to reproduce without horizontal transmission of the virus to their HIV-negative female partners. He also studies women living with HIV in Ontario, particularly outside of the GTA, and their intentions and motivation for pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is personally rewarding to be a part of this research and the policy change that has resulted,\u201d Newmeyer said. \u201cHIV used to be so connected to death and dying, and now it is about life and living.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trent Newmeyer is part of a team that has received a three-year $900,000 grant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,5],"tags":[28,83,3325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11268,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11266\/revisions\/11268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}