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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:
Cheryl C Johnson, Sara Keller, Sonjelle Shilton, Ineke Spruijt, Brooke E Nichols, Joshua M Chevalier, Megan A Hansen, Tom Ockhuisen, Sarah J Girdwood, Nkgomeleng A Lekodeba, Paula del Rey-Puech, Elena Marban-Castro, Guillermo Zohar Martínez-Pérez, Muhammad Radzi Abu Hassan, Vladimir Getia, Catiuscia Weinert-Mizuschima, Maria Isabelle Tenorio Bezerra, Lensa Chala, Robert Leong, Remilekun Peregino
Publikováno v:
BMJ Open, Vol 14, Iss 4 (2024)
Objective Diagnostic testing is an important tool to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, yet access to and uptake of testing vary widely 3 years into the pandemic. The WHO recommends the use of COVID-19 self-testing as an option to help expand testing acce
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/b7d8db1b4b0b43659500e80206321436
Autor:
Colin A Russell, Cheryl C Johnson, Brooke E Nichols, Shaukat Khan, Jilian A Sacks, Joshua M Chevalier, Alvin X Han, Megan A Hansen, Ethan Klock, Hiromi Pandithakoralage, Tom Ockhuisen, Sarah J Girdwood, Nkgomeleng A Lekodeba, Alexandra de Nooy, Helen E Jenkins
Publikováno v:
BMJ Open, Vol 14, Iss 2 (2024)
Objectives To determine the most epidemiologically effective and cost-effective school-based SARS-CoV-2 antigen-detection rapid diagnostic test (Ag-RDT) self-testing strategies among teachers and students.Design Mathematical modelling and economic ev
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/08b62b5a633d406f953b3e4e6256c1f5
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