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Improving HIV Early Infant Diagnosis Supply Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa: Models and Application to Mozambique
2017
Operations Research
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Yet most countries in sub-Saharan Africa experience significant delays in diagnosis due to operational inefficiencies in early infant diagnosis (EID) networks. ...
Early diagnosis of HIV among infants born to HIV infected mothers is critical because roughly 50% of untreated infected infants die before the age of two years. ...
Acknowledgments We thank the National Institute of Health in Mozambique and the Clinton Health Access Initiative for providing data and information regarding the problem setting, in particular Dr. ...
doi:10.1287/opre.2017.1646
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Improving HIV Early Infant Diagnosis Supply Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa: Models and Application to Mozambique
2014
Social Science Research Network
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(EC.4) e-companion to Deo, Gallien, and Jónasson: Improving HIV infant diagnosis supply chains ec3 (Details) (i) Denote the random number of samples for a given shipment from clinic i by X i . ...
Deo, Gallien, and Jónasson: Improving HIV infant diagnosis supply chains
. (a) the approximate waiting time function. (b) the linear segments after 5 iterations. ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2511549
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HIV point-of-care diagnostics: meeting the special needs of sub-Saharan Africa
2014
Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
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Sub-Saharan Africa, accounting for 70% of the 35 million people living with HIV worldwide, obviously carries the heaviest burden of the HIV epidemic. ...
Therefore, quality diagnostics that are easy to use, inexpensive, and amenable for use at point of care (POC) are a dire necessity. ...
Technologies for early infant diagnosis (EID) Early infant diagnosis (EID) of HIV infection confers substantial benefits to HIV-infected and HIVexposed infants, to their families, and to programs providing ...
doi:10.3855/jidc.4664
pmid:25313598
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Elimination of Mother-To-Child Transmission of HIV Infection: The Drug Resource Enhancement against AIDS and Malnutrition Model
2015
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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and solutions for the elimination of HIV vertical transmission in sub-Saharan Africa. ...
transmission to less than 5% at 24 months of age, as well as maternal mortality and infant mortality in both HIV infected and exposed populations to levels similar to those of uninfected individuals. ...
Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank all the patients followed in the DREAM program across Africa, the Ministry of Health of Mozambique as well as the multiple volunteers and the Community ...
doi:10.3390/ijerph121013224
pmid:26506365
pmcid:PMC4627027
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Global Disparities in Hepatitis B Elimination—A Focus on Africa
2022
Viruses
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Innovations and simplified tools exist in order to achieve elimination, but what is desperately required is the will to implement these strategies through the support of appropriate investment and funding ...
The strategy, while achievable, has exposed existing global disparities in healthcare systems and their ability to implement such policies. ...
To contextualize this disparity, there are 52 Fibroscan R machines available in sub-Saharan Africa and several hundred in North Africa. ...
doi:10.3390/v14010082
pmid:35062286
pmcid:PMC8777803
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Medication adherence in pregnant women with human immunodeficiency virus receiving antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review
2018
BMC Public Health
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This systematic review aimed to examine the enablers and barriers of medication adherence among HIV positive pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa. ...
The use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a core strategy proposed by the World Health Organization in preventing mother to child transmission (MTCT) of HIV. ...
The corresponding author had full access to all data in the study and had final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication. ...
doi:10.1186/s12889-018-5651-y
pmid:29945601
pmcid:PMC6020364
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A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Implementation Science
2014
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
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In resource-limited countries, interventions to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) have not yet realized their full potential health impact, illustrating the common gap between the scientific ...
Elimination of mother-to-child HIV transmission can only be achieved through understanding of key implementation barriers and successful adaptation of scientifically proven interventions to the local environment ...
NICHD, NIMH
South Africa
Mary-Ann Davies
Closing the gaps in PMTCT program coverage, early
infant diagnosis and treatment
NICHD
Kenya
Carey Farquhar
HIV Testing and Educating Male Partners ...
doi:10.1097/qai.0000000000000323
pmid:25310124
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The interesting cross-paths of HIV/AIDS and water in Southern Africa with special reference to South Africa
2007
Water S.A
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Estimates of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa vary but attest to a mature and generalised epidemic. ...
Improving water quality will lead to a decline in child and adult mortality as well as diarrhoeal diseases in people living with HIV/AIDS. ...
The WHO (2004) noted that in sub-Saharan Africa, sanitation coverage was a mere 36% with only 31% of the rural inhabitants in developing countries having access to improved sanitation as opposed to 73% ...
doi:10.4314/wsa.v32i3.5277
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Schistosomiasis with a Focus on Africa
2021
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
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Substantial progress has been made in controlling schistosomiasis in some African countries, but the disease still prevails in most parts of sub-Saharan Africa with an estimated 800 million people at risk ...
Schistosomiasis is a common neglected tropical disease of impoverished people and livestock in many developing countries in tropical Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. ...
Acknowledgments: The authors would like to thank Madeleine Flynn from the Communications and Marketing Department at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute for her assistance in producing the figures ...
doi:10.3390/tropicalmed6030109
pmid:34206495
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Role of public-private partnerships in achieving UNAIDS HIV treatment targets
2019
BMC Health Services Research
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Despite progress towards achieving UNAIDS 90-90-90 goals, barriers persist in laboratory systems in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) restricting scale up of early infant diagnosis (EID) and viral load (VL) test ...
PPP contributions to laboratory systems strengthening are a model and present opportunities that can be leveraged to strengthen systems to achieve the UNAIDS 90-90-90 treatment targets for HIV/AIDS. ...
Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Joanna M. Taliano, librarian at Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA for helping in the literature search. ...
doi:10.1186/s12913-018-3744-z
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Integrated maternal and child health services in Mozambique: structural health system limitations overshadow its effect on follow-up of HIV-exposed infants
2013
BMC Health Services Research
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The follow-up of HIV-exposed infants remains a public health challenge in many Sub-Saharan countries. ...
Regular technical support and adequate basic working conditions are essential for improved performance in the follow-up of HIV-exposed infants in peripheral public healthcare facilities in Mozambique. ...
Acknowledgements We thank the Flemish International Cooperation Agency (FICA) for funding this study within the project 'Integrated Network for the Fight against HIV/SIDA/STI in Tete Province, Mozambique ...
doi:10.1186/1472-6963-13-207
pmid:23758816
pmcid:PMC3679935
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Pandemics and Burden of Stroke and Epilepsy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Experience from a Longstanding Health Programme
2021
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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Eighty percent of people with stroke live in low- to middle-income nations, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where stroke has increased by more than 100% in the last decades. ...
Disease Relief through Excellent and Advanced Means (DREAM) is a health programme active since 2002 to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS and related disorders in 10 SSA countries. ...
Acknowledgments: We wish to thank Giuseppe Liotta for his valuable suggestions and Silvia Bordoni for assistance with the English. ...
doi:10.3390/ijerph18052766
pmid:33803352
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Sustainable HIV treatment in Africa through viral-load-informed differentiated care
2015
Nature
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In most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, measurement of viral load is not widely available. ...
Currently, the most feasible approach to begin to measure viral load in many There are inefficiencies in current approaches to monitoring patients on antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa. ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Funding for the study was received from the HIV Modelling Consortium, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization and the HIV Diagnostics Modelling Consortium. ...
doi:10.1038/nature16046
pmid:26633768
pmcid:PMC4932825
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POC CD4 Testing Improves Linkage to HIV Care and Timeliness of ART Initiation in a Public Health Approach: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
2016
PLoS ONE
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We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to identify the extent to which POC improves linkages to HIV care and timeliness of ART initiation. ...
Random effects models were used to estimate pooled risk ratios, pooled proportions, and 95% confidence intervals. Results We identified 30 eligible studies, most of which were completed in Africa. ...
The included studies spanned eight countries, most within sub-Saharan Africa. All studies were conducted between 2009 and 2015. ...
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0155256
pmid:27175484
pmcid:PMC4866695
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Preparing national tiered laboratory systems and networks to advance diagnostics in Africa and meet the continent's health agenda: Insights into priority areas for improvement
2020
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine
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input in data collection and analysis. ...
Acknowledgements The authors thank the African Society for Laboratory Medicine and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention team members Samba Diallo, Edwin Shumba and Anafi Mataka for their ...
assessed, only 40% had the capacity to conduct culture or polymerase chain reaction-based tuberculosis diagnosis, 11% and 34% could perform HIV drug resistance genotyping and early infant diagnosis, and ...
doi:10.4102/ajlm.v9i2.1103
pmid:33102173
pmcid:PMC7565058
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