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Nathan Ford

Researcher at World Health Organization

Publications -  476
Citations -  25127

Nathan Ford is an academic researcher from World Health Organization. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The author has an hindex of 82, co-authored 455 publications receiving 21982 citations. Previous affiliations of Nathan Ford include Imperial College London & University of California, San Francisco.

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Viral load monitoring as a tool to reinforce adherence: a systematic review.

Kimberly Bonner, +4 more
- 01 Sep 2013 - 
TL;DR: The clear trend of resuppression, following viral load testing and adherence support, demonstrates the utility of viral load as a tool to identify patients in need of enhanced adherence support.
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Community-based antiretroviral therapy programs can overcome barriers to retention of patients and decongest health services in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

Tom Decroo, +6 more
- 01 Sep 2013 - 
TL;DR: The evidence supporting different models of community participation for ART care, or community-based ART, in sub-Saharan Africa, was reviewed and some major challenges need to be overcome.
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Reliability of HIV rapid diagnostic tests for self-testing compared with testing by health-care workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Carmen Figueroa, +10 more
- 01 Jun 2018 - 
TL;DR: Self-testers can reliably and accurately do HIV rapid diagnostic tests, as compared with trained health-care workers, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational and experimental studies on HIV self-testing performance.
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Long-term Virological Outcomes of First-Line Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV-1 in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

T. Sonia Boender, +8 more
- 08 Jul 2015 - 
TL;DR: Among individuals retained on ART, virological suppression rates during the first 5 years of ART were high (>80%) and stable, and Suppression rates in ITT analysis declined during 4 years.
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Should active recruitment of health workers from sub-Saharan Africa be viewed as a crime?

Edward J Mills, +9 more
- 23 Feb 2008 - 
TL;DR: The insufficiency of health staff to provide even basic services is one of the most pressing impediments to health-care delivery in resource-poor settings, and the consequences are clearly shown by the inverse relation that exists betweenhealth-care worker density and mortality.