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Carla J. Chibwesha
Researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Publications - 64
Citations - 1508
Carla J. Chibwesha is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cervical cancer & Population. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 58 publications receiving 1242 citations. Previous affiliations of Carla J. Chibwesha include Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia & University of Alabama.
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The Burden of Human Papillomavirus Infections and Related Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa
Hugo De Vuyst,Laia Alemany,Charles J.N. Lacey,Carla J. Chibwesha,Vikrant V. Sahasrabuddhe,Cecily Banura,Lynette Denny,Groesbeck P. Parham +7 more
TL;DR: Strategies to reduce the excessive burden of HPV-related diseases in SSA include age-appropriate prophylactic HPV vaccination, cervical cancer prevention services for women of the reproductive ages, and control of HIV/AIDS.
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Advancing cervical cancer prevention initiatives in resource-constrained settings: insights from the Cervical Cancer Prevention Program in Zambia.
Mulindi H. Mwanahamuntu,Vikrant V. Sahasrabuddhe,Sharon Kapambwe,Sharon Kapambwe,Krista S. Pfaendler,Carla J. Chibwesha,Carla J. Chibwesha,Gracilia Mkumba,Gracilia Mkumba,Victor Mudenda,Michael L. Hicks,Sten H. Vermund,Jeffrey S. A. Stringer,Jeffrey S. A. Stringer,Groesbeck P. Parham,Groesbeck P. Parham,Groesbeck P. Parham +16 more
TL;DR: The Cervical Cancer Prevention Program in Zambia has provided services to over 58,000 women over the past five years and lessons learned from the program's implementation and integration with existing HIV/AIDS programs are shared.
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Population-level scale-up of cervical cancer prevention services in a low-resource setting: development, implementation, and evaluation of the cervical cancer prevention program in Zambia.
Groesbeck P. Parham,Mulindi H. Mwanahamuntu,Sharon Kapambwe,Richard Muwonge,Allen C. Bateman,Meridith Blevins,Carla J. Chibwesha,Krista S. Pfaendler,Victor Mudenda,Aaron Shibemba,Samson Chisele,Gracilia Mkumba,Bellington Vwalika,Michael L. Hicks,Sten H. Vermund,Benjamin H. Chi,Jeffrey S. A. Stringer,Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan,Vikrant V. Sahasrabuddhe +18 more
TL;DR: This work creatively disrupted the 'no screening' status quo prevailing in Zambia and addressed the heavy burden of cervical disease among previously unscreened women by establishing and scaling-up public-sector screening and treatment services at a population level.
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Protocol-driven primary care and community linkages to improve population health in rural Zambia: the Better Health Outcomes through Mentoring and Assessment (BHOMA) project.
Jeffrey S. A. Stringer,Angela Chisembele-Taylor,Carla J. Chibwesha,Harmony F. Chi,Helen Ayles,Handson Manda,Wendy Mazimba,Linnaea Schuttner,Ntazana Sindano,Frank B. Williams,Namwinga Chintu,Roma Chilengi +11 more
TL;DR: This project proposes to improve the quality of clinical care and to improve utilization of that care, through a targeted quality improvement (QI) intervention delivered at the facility and community level, to reduce population mortality in Zambia.
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Optimal time on HAART for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
Carla J. Chibwesha,Mark J. Giganti,Mark J. Giganti,Nande B. Putta,Namwinga Chintu,Jessica Mulindwa,Benjamin J. Dorton,Benjamin H. Chi,Jeffrey S. A. Stringer,Elizabeth M. Stringer +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a retrospective cohort analysis of pregnant HIV-infected women in Lusaka Zambia to determine the impact of time between initiating highly active antiretroviral therapy and delivery-duration of antenatal HAART on perinatal HIV infection.