DR(c). ADRIANA VILLAFUERTE-GARCÍA


Academic formation:

  • 2020 – Ph.D. candidate, Public Health, INSP.
  • 2013 – Master in Public Health with a focus in Infectious Diseases, INSP.
  • 2008 – MD, Popular Autonomous University of the State of Puebla.

Current positions:

  • Independent Consultant / Researcher.

Experience:

  • Deputy Director, State Coordination, National Center for the Prevention and Control of HIV and AIDS.
  • Coordinator, National Validation Group for the Elimination of Vertical Transmission of HIV and Congenital Syphilis.
  • Operational coordination of various projects on HIV, AIDS, STIs and TB.
  • Coordination of the continuing medical and paramedical education program, National Center for the Prevention and Control of HIV and AIDS.

Research interests:

  • HIV and STI screening.
  • Comprehensive HIV, AIDS, and STI care.
  • Tuberculosis.
  • Tuberculosis/HIV.
  • Evaluation of health programs.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Marín- Navarrete R, Magis- Rodríguez CL, Villalobos- Gallegos L, Villafuerte- García A, Pérez- López A, Ruíz- Herrera K, Sánchez- Domínguez R, Ponce- Ramos M, Morales- Carcaño A, Bravo- García E, Uribe P, Medina- Mora ME. Development of an evidence- based model of rapid testing, counseling and referral patients with HIV, HVC and other STDs in Mexican addiction treatment centers. Salud Mental 2019; Vol. 42 (4).
  • Patricia Uribe Zúñiga, Adriana Villafuerte García, Carlos Magis Rodríguez. Mujeres y VIH en México, Diálogos y tensiones entre perspectivas de atención a la salud. Editorial Imagia, 2018 Capítulo 1. Atención a la salud reproductiva y VIH en mujeres.
  • Patricia Uribe Zúñiga, Carlos L. Magis Rodríguez, Enrique Bravo García, Adriana Villafuerte García. Salud Pública y Medicina Preventiva, 5ta edición, Manual Moderno, 2018 Coordinadores: Rafael Álvarez Alva, Pablo Kuri- Morales
    Capítulo 19. Infecciones de transmisión sexual.
  • Carlos Leonardo Magis-Rodríguez, Adriana Villafuerte-García, Raúl Adrián Cruz-Flores, Méd, Esp en SP, Patricia Uribe-Zúñiga. Inicio tardío de terapia antirretroviral en México, Salud Pública Méx 2015; Vol. 57(sup 2):127-134.
  • Renata Báez-Saldaña, Adriana Villafuerte-García, Pablo Cruz-Hervert, Guadalupe Delgado-Sánchez, Leticia Ferreyra-Reyes, Elizabeth Ferreira-Guerrero, Norma Mongua-Rodríguez, Rogelio Montero-Campos, Ada Melchor-Romero, and Lourdes García-García. Association between Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy and Type of Infectious Respiratory Disease and All-Cause In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with HIV/AIDS: A Case Series. PLoS One. 2015; 10(9): e0138115.