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Jackson, Debra J.; Dinh, Thu-Ha; Lombard, Carl J.; Sherman, Gayle G.; Goga, Ameena Ebrahim (BioMed Central, 2019-09-16)BACKGROUND : Eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV is a global public health target. Robust, feasible methodologies to measure population level impact of programmes to prevent mother-to-child transmission of ...
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Jackson, Debra J.; Batiste, Elize; Rendall-Mkosi, Kirstie Margaret (Blackwell, 2007-09)The aim of this case–control study was to determine the risk factors for low birthweight in a farming region in South Africa, with particular attention to maternal alcohol use and smoking, both independently and in ...
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Ramokolo, Vundli; Lombard, Carl; Chhagan, Meera; Engebretsen, Ingunn M.S.; Doherty, Tanya; Goga, Ameena Ebrahim; Fadnes, Lars Thore; Zembe, Wanga; Jackson, Debra J.; Van den Broeck, Jan (BioMed Central, 2015-04)BACKGROUND : South Africa has the highest prevalence of overweight/obesity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Assessing the effect of modifiable factors such as early infant feeding on growth velocity and overweight/obesity is ...
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Goga, Ameena Ebrahim; Dinh, Thu-Ha; Jackson, Debra J.; Lombard, Carl; Delaney, Kevin P.; Puren, Adrian; Sherman, Gayle G.; Woldesenbet, Selamawit A.; Ramokolo, Vundli; Crowley, Siobhan; Doherty, Tanya; Chopra, Mickey; Shaffer, Nathan; Pillay, Yogan (BMJ Publishing Group, 2015-03)BACKGROUND : There is a paucity of data on the national population-level effectiveness of preventing mother-tochild transmission (PMTCT) programmes in high-HIVprevalence, resource-limited settings. We assessed national ...
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Dinh, Thu-Ha; Delaney, Kevin P.; Goga, Ameena Ebrahim; Jackson, Debra J.; Lombard, Carl; Woldesenbet, Selamawit A.; Mogashoa, Mary M.; Pillay, Yogan; Shaffer, Nathan (Public Library of Science, 2015-05-05)BACKGROUND Mother-to-child transmission of HIV (MTCT) depends on the timing of HIV infection. We estimated HIV-seroconversion during pregnancy (HSP) after having a HIV-negative result antenatally, and its contribution ...
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Ramokolo, Vundli; Goga, Ameena Ebrahim; Lombard, Carl; Doherty, Tanya; Jackson, Debra J.; Engebretsen, Ingunn M.S. (Oxford University Press, 2017)BACKGROUND. Despite the recognized benefit of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for preventing and treating HIV, some studies have reported adverse birth outcomes with in utero ART exposure. We evaluated the effect of infant ...
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Woldesenbet, Selamawit A.; Jackson, Debra J.; Lombard, Carl; Dinh, Thu-ha; Puren, Adrian; Sherman, Gayle; Ramokolo, Vundli; Doherty, Tanya; Mogashoa, Mary M.; Bhardwaj, S.; Chopra, Mickey; Shaffer, Nathan; Pillay, Yogan; Goga, Ameena Ebrahim; Anglewicz, Philip (Public Library of Science, 2015-07-06)Objectives We examined uptake of prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) services, predictors of missed opportunities, and infant HIV transmission attributable to missed opportunities along the PMTCT ...
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Woldesenbet, Selamawit A.; Jackson, Debra J.; Goga, Ameena Ebrahim; Crowley, Siobhan; Doherty, Tanya; Mogashoa, Mary M.; Dinh, Thu-Ha; Sherman, Gayle G. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2015-03)BACKGROUND : Services to diagnose early infant HIV infection should be offered at the 6-week immunization visit. Despite high 6-week immunization attendance, the coverage of early infant diagnosis (EID) is low in many ...
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Goga, Ameena Ebrahim; Dinh, Thu–Ha; Jackson, Debra J.; Lombard, Carl J.; Puren, Adrian; Sherman, Gayle; Ramokolo, Vundli; Woldesenbet, Selamawit A.; Doherty, Tanya; Noveve, Nobuntu; Magasana, Vuyolwethu; Singh, Yagespari; Ramraj, Trisha; Bhardwaj, Sanjana; Pillay, Yogan (Edinburgh University Global Health Society, 2016-12)BACKGROUND : Eliminating mother–to–child transmission of HIV (EMTCT), defined as ≤50 infant HIV infections per 100 000 live births, is a global priority. Since 2011 policies to prevent mother–to–child transmission of HIV ...
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Doherty, Tanya; Jackson, Debra J.; Swanevelder, Sonja; Lombard, Carl; Engebretsen, Ingunn M. S.; Tylleskar, Thorkild; Goga, Ameena Ebrahim; Ekstrom, Eva-Charlotte; Sanders, David (Wiley, 2014-10)OBJECTIVE : To report on risk factors for severe events (hospitalisation or infant death) within the first half of infancy amongst HIV-unexposed infants in South Africa. methods South African data from the multisite ...
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Woldesenbet, Selamawit A.; Jackson, Debra J.; Lombard, C.J.; Dinh, Thu-Ha; Ramokolo, Vundli; Doherty, Tanya; Sherman, Gayle G.; Pillay, Yogan; Goga, Ameena Ebrahim (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2017-04)OBJECTIVES : In 2010, South Africa reported an early mother-to child transmission (MTCT) rate of 3.5% at 4–8 weeks postpartum. Provincial early MTCT rates ranged from 1.4% [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.1 to 3.4] to 5.9% ...
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Sherman, Gayle G.; Mazanderani, Ahmad Haeri; Barron, Peter; Bhardwaj, Sanjana; Niit, Ronelle; Okobi, Margaret; Puren, Adrian; Jackson, Debra J.; Goga, Ameena Ebrahim (Edinburgh University Global Health Society, 2017-06)BACKGROUND : South Africa has utilized three independent data sources to measure the impact of its program for the prevention of mother–to–child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV. These include the South African National ...
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