DR. ALICIA PIÑEIRUA-MENÉNDEZ


Education:

  • 2015 – Master’s in Public Health from Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Department of Global Health. Concentration in Infectious Diseases.
  • 2012 – Specialist in Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán.
  • 2010 – Specialist in Internal Medicine, National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán.
  • 2006 – Surgeon, Anahuac Norte University.

Academic appointments:

  • Collaborator in the Health Economics research team at INSP.
  • Member of the CISIDAT Ethics Committee.
  • Peer reviewer for academic journals.

Research interests:

  • HIV infection: social determinants, adolescence, women living with HIV, pre-exposure prophylaxis, coinfections (tuberculosis and HIV).
  • Hepatitis C.
  • Infections in End-Stage Chronic Kidney Disease.

Featured projects:

  • Collaboration in projects to assess health determinants in women living with HIV in the state of Chiapas.
  • Coordination of Implementation and Monitoring in the Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Project for HIV.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Gutiérrez-Velilla, E., Piñeirúa-Menéndez, A., Ávila-Ríos, S. et al.Clinical Follow-Up in People Living with HIV During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mexico. AIDS Behav (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-022-03626-4
  • Caro-Vega,Y.; Alarid-Escudero, F.; Enns, E.A.;
Sosa-Rubí, S.; Chivardi, C.; Piñeirúa-Menendez, A.; García-Morales, C.; Reyes-Terán, G.; Sierra-Madero, J.G.; Ávila-Ríos, S. Retention in Care, Mortality, Loss-to-Follow-Up, and Viral Suppression among Antiretroviral Treatment-Naïve and Experienced Persons Participating in a Nationally Representative HIV Pre-Treatment Drug Resistance Survey in Mexico. Pathogens 2021,10,1569. https:// doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10121569
  • Camp DM, Hussen SA, Leyva MH, Piñeirúa-Menéndez A. Parenting intentions of young sexual minority men living with HIV in Mexico City, Mexico. Cult Health Sex. 2020 Dec 24:1-17. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2020.1860256. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33356999.
  • Matías-Florentino M, Chaillon A, Ávila-Ríos S, Mehta SR, Paz-Juárez HE, Becerril-Rodríguez MA, Del Arenal-Sánchez SJ, Piñeirúa-Menéndez A, Ruiz V, Iracheta-Hernández P, Macías-González I, Tena-Sánchez J, Badial-Hernández F, González-Rodríguez A, Reyes-Terán G. Pretreatment HIV drug resistance spread within transmission clusters in Mexico City. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2020 Mar 1;75(3):656-667. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkz502. PMID: 31819984; PMCID: PMC7021100.
  • Piñeirua-Menéndez, A., Flores-Miranda, R., Sánchez-Nava, D., Ortega-Pérez, R., Belaunzarán-Zamudio, P. F., Pérez-Patrigeon, S., Cárdenas-Ochoa, A., Oseguera-Moguel, J., Galindo-Uribe, J., Orihuela-Sandoval, C., Vázquez-Ortiz, Z., Vázquez-Lamadrid, J., Morelos-Guzmán, M., Rosales-Uvera, S., Crabtree-Ramírez, B., & Sierra-Madero, J. (2020). Myocardial Inflammatory Changes Before and After Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation in People With Advanced Human Immunodeficiency Virus Disease. Open forum infectious diseases7(8), ofaa297. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa297
  • Ramírez-González Luis Esteban, Piñeirúa-Menéndez Alicia, Badial-Hernández Florentino, Sánchez-Ávila Juan Francisco, Pérez-Carrizosa Areli, Camiro-Zúñiga Antonio, Simental-Aldaba Emmanuel, Zamora-Tapia Irwin, Marañón-Solorio Karen Aranza, Sierra-Madero Juan Gerardo. Características demográficas y clínicas de pacientes co infectados por VIH y Virus de Hepatitis C en México. Revista Médica MD, (2018) 9 (4):294-298pp.
  • Singleton R, Carter J, Alencar T, Piñeirúa-Menéndez A, Winskell K. Social representations of masculinity in Mexican youth’s creative narratives, Boyhood Studies, 2018 11(1): 63-81
  • Aguilar-Zapata D, Piñeirúa-Menéndez A, Volkow-Fernández P, Rodríguez-Zulueta P, Ramos-Alamillo U, Cabrera-López T, Martin-Onraët A. Sociodemographic differences among HIV positive and HIV negative pregnant women in Mexico City: A case-control study, Medicine (Baltimore), 2017 96 (27): e7305.
  • Piñeirúa Menéndez A, Sierra-Madero J, Cahn P, Guevara-Palmero R.N, Martínez E, Young B, Del Rio C. The HIV Care Cascade in Latin America: Challenges and Opportunities. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2015 Jul; 15 (7) 833-9.
  • Martin‐Onraet A, PiñeirúaMenéndez A, Perales‐Martínez D, Ortega‐Pérez R, Barrera‐ García A, Sierra‐Madero J, Volkow‐Fernández P. Mortalidad hospitalaria en pacientes con infección por VIH: a diez años del Acceso Universal a TARAA en México (2015). Salud Pública de México, Suplemento II, Vol 57, S163-S170.
  • Sierra-Madero JG, Ellenberg SS, Rassool MS, Tierney A, Belaunzarán-Zamudio PF, López-Martínez A, Piñeirúa-Menéndez A, Montaner L, Azzoni L, Rivera Benítez C, Sereti I, Andrade-Villanueva J, Mosqueda- Gómez JL, Rodriguez B, Sanne I,   Lederman MM, the CADIRIS study team. Effect of the CCR5 antagonist maraviroc on the occurrence of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in HIV (CADIRIS): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial. The Lancet HIV  (2014) Vol. 1, Num 2, Pag e60-e67  DOI: 10.1016/S2352-3018(14)70027-X

Libros

  • Autoría del capítulo: El personal medico y la visibilidad de las mujeres en la epidemia del VIH en México en el libro: Mujeres y VIH en México: Diálogos y tensiones entre perspectivas de atención a la salud. Editorial Imagia Comunicación, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. Coordinadora: Dra. Ana Amuchástegui. México, 2018. ISBN:978-607-28-1250-5.