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Emma Slaymaker

Researcher at University of London

Publications -  59
Citations -  2666

Emma Slaymaker is an academic researcher from University of London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 56 publications receiving 2362 citations.

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Measuring HIV-related mortality in the first decade of anti-retroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa.

TL;DR: The measurement of the impact of ART on mortality requires long-term follow-up in communities where regular HIV testing allows the estimation of mortality by HIV status, such as the population cohorts in the network for Analysing Longitudinal Population-based HIV data in Africa (ALPHA).
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Direct maternal deaths attributable to HIV in the era of antiretroviral therapy: evidence from three population-based HIV cohorts with verbal autopsy.

TL;DR: HIV-infected women face higher rates of mortality from direct maternal causes, which suggests that they need to improve access to quality maternity care, and these findings also have implications for the surveillance of HIV/AIDS related mortality.
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Travel associated legionnaires disease in Europe: 1997 and 1998.

TL;DR: The European Surveillance Scheme for Travel Associated Legionnaires Disease was set up by the European Working Group on Legionella Infections (EWGLI) in 1987 to identify cases of legionella infection in returning travellers and to detect outbreaks and outbreaks.
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Understanding differences in conception and abortion rates among under-20 year olds in Britain and France: Examining the contribution of social disadvantage.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether the strength of the association differs for each outcome, between men and women, or cross-nationally, using contemporaneous national probability survey data from Britain and France, and found no strong evidence of variation in the magnitude of the associations with socioeconomic characteristics by country or gender.
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Understanding why People Participate in HIV Surveillance.

TL;DR: People have argued that the benefits of human immunodefi-ciency virus (HIV) testing and counselling are so important that participants in HIV surveys must be given their HIV test results and that individuals who decline to receive their test re-sults should be excluded from participation in such surveys.