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Autor:
Sarah J. Girdwood, Thomas Crompton, Naseem Cassim, Floyd Olsen, Portia Sejake, Karidia Diallo, Leigh Berrie, Dorman Chimhamhiwa, Wendy Stevens, Brooke Nichols
Publikováno v:
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp e1-e6 (2022)
Background: South Africa uses a courier network for transporting specimens to public laboratories. After the daily collection of specimens from the facility by the courier, patients not yet attended to are unlikely to receive same-day blood draws, po
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/cd1847d2a4a440bc92bcd0b10aa5ec2d
Autor:
Joshua M. Chevalier, Karla Therese L. Sy, Sarah J. Girdwood, Shaukat Khan, Heidi Albert, Amy Toporowski, Emma Hannay, Sergio Carmona, Brooke E. Nichols
Publikováno v:
PLOS Global Public Health, Vol 2, Iss 5 (2022)
Countries around the world have implemented restrictions on mobility, especially cross-border travel to reduce or prevent SARS-CoV-2 community transmission. Rapid antigen testing (Ag-RDT), with on-site administration and rapid turnaround time may pro
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/7f9f884ba6ab4f97a9228af5e8f2299a
Autor:
Sarah J. Girdwood, Thomas Crompton, Monisha Sharma, Jienchi Dorward, Nigel Garrett, Paul K. Drain, Wendy Stevens, Brooke E. Nichols
Publikováno v:
EClinicalMedicine, Vol 28, Iss , Pp 100607- (2020)
Background: Viral load (VL) testing is recommended for monitoring people on ART. The National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) in South Africa conducts >5million laboratory-based VL tests but faces challenges with specimen integrity and results deliv
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/556ce4d2a9874b37aa752f09deb568aa
Autor:
Kameko Nichols, Sarah J. Girdwood, Andrew Inglis, Pascale Ondoa, Karla Therese L. Sy, Mariet Benade, Aloysius Bingi Tusiime, Kekeletso Kao, Sergio Carmona, Heidi Albert, Brooke E. Nichols
Publikováno v:
Diagnostics, Vol 11, Iss 1, p 22 (2020)
Diagnostics services are an essential component of healthcare systems, advancing universal health coverage and ensuring global health security, but are often unavailable or under-resourced in low- and middle-income (LMIC) countries. Typically, diagno
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/b8620c855ea64e9b9ab1466b49ab302d
Autor:
Megan A Hansen, Alvin X Han, Joshua M Chevalier, Ethan Klock, Hiromi Pandithakoralage, Alexandra de Nooy, Tom Ockhuisen, Sarah J Girdwood, Nkgomeleng A Lekodeba, Shaukat Khan, Helen E Jenkins, Cheryl C Johnson, Jilian A Sacks, Colin A Russell, Brooke E Nichols
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 19, Iss 10, p e0311198 (2024)
Places of worship serve as a venue for both mass and routine gathering around the world, and therefore are associated with risk of large-scale SARS-CoV-2 transmission. However, such routine gatherings also offer an opportunity to distribute self-test
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/936e679ac4a5405895643d432bdf39b3
Autor:
Alvin X Han, Sarah J Girdwood, Shaukat Khan, Jilian A Sacks, Amy Toporowski, Naushin Huq, Emma Hannay, Colin A Russell, Brooke E Nichols
Publikováno v:
Clinical infectious diseases, 76(4), 620-630. Oxford University Press
BackgroundIncreasing the availability of antigen rapid diagnostic tests (Ag-RDTs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is key to alleviating global SARS-CoV-2 testing inequity (median testing rate in December 2021–March 2022 when the Omicron
Autor:
Stephen C Resch, Gesine Meyer-Rath, Lise Jamieson, Joshua Murphy, Nalini Naidoo, Sarah J Girdwood, Djøra I. Soeteman, Sharon Kgowedi
Publikováno v:
Health Policy and Planning
An increasing focus on the use of the results of cost analyses and other economic evaluations in health programme decision-making by governments, donors and technical support partners working in low- and middle-income countries is accompanied by reco
Autor:
Kameko Nichols, Aloysius Bingi Tusiime, Karla Therese L Sy, Brooke E Nichols, Sergio Carmona, Heidi Albert, Kekeletso Kao, Pascale Ondoa, Mariet Benade, Sarah J Girdwood, Andrew Inglis
Publikováno v:
Diagnostics, Vol 11, Iss 22, p 22 (2021)
Diagnostics
Diagnostics
Diagnostics services are an essential component of healthcare systems, advancing universal health coverage and ensuring global health security, but are often unavailable or under-resourced in low- and middle-income (LMIC) countries. Typically, diagno
Autor:
Jacqueline Miot, Daniel Letswalo, Sarah J Girdwood, Gesine Meyer-Rath, Kerensa Govender, Lawrence Long
Publikováno v:
BMC Public Health
BMC Public Health, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2021)
BMC Public Health, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2021)
Background The proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) system aims to re-engineer primary healthcare (PHC) in South Africa, envisioning both private sector providers and public sector clinics as independent contracting units to the NHI Fund. In 2017
Autor:
Sergio Carmona, Lynsey Stewart-Isherwood, Sydney Rosen, Lesley Scott, Sharper Sikota, Sarah J Girdwood, Lawrence Mwananyanda, Lara Noble, Christopher J. Gill, Brooke E Nichols, Wendy Stevens, Aaron Shibemba
Publikováno v:
Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Background Routine plasma viral load (VL) testing is recommended for monitoring human immunodeficiency virus–infected patients on antiretroviral therapy. In Zambia, VL scale-up is limited due to logistical obstacles around plasma specimen collectio