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Shirley Lee Lecher
Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications - 22
Citations - 597
Shirley Lee Lecher is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Viral load. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 20 publications receiving 454 citations.
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Scale-up of HIV Viral Load Monitoring--Seven Sub-Saharan African Countries.
Shirley Lee Lecher,Dennis Ellenberger,Andrea A. Kim,Peter N. Fonjungo,Simon Agolory,Marie Yolande Borget,Laura N. Broyles,Sergio Carmona,Geoffrey Chipungu,Kevin M. De Cock,Varough M. Deyde,Marie Downer,Sundeep Gupta,Jonathan E. Kaplan,Charles Kiyaga,Nancy W. Knight,William B. MacLeod,Boniface Makumbi,Hellen Muttai,Christina Mwangi,J. Mwangi,Michael Mwasekaga,Lucy Ng’ang’a,Yogan Pillay,Abdoulaye Dieng Sarr,Souleymane Sawadogo,Daniel E. Singer,Wendy Stevens,Christiane Adje Toure,John N. Nkengasong +29 more
TL;DR: This report highlights the initial successes and challenges of viral load monitoring in seven countries that have chosen to scale up viral load testing as a national monitoring strategy for patients on ART in response to World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations.
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Progress with Scale-Up of HIV Viral Load Monitoring — Seven Sub-Saharan African Countries, January 2015–June 2016
Shirley Lee Lecher,Jason Williams,Peter N. Fonjungo,Andrea A. Kim,Dennis Ellenberger,Guoqing Zhang,Christiane Adje Toure,Simon Agolory,Georgette Appiah-Pippim,Suzanne Beard,Marie Yolande Borget,Sergio Carmona,Geoffrey Chipungu,Karidia Diallo,Marie Downer,Dianna Edgil,Holly Haberman,Mackenzie Hurlston,Steven Jadzak,Charles Kiyaga,William B. MacLeod,Boniface Makumb,Hellen Muttai,Christina Mwangi,J. Mwangi,Michael Mwasekaga,Mary Naluguza,Lucy Ng’ang’a,Shon Nguyen,Souleymane Sawadogo,Katrina Sleeman,Wendy Stevens,Joel Kuritsky,Shannon Hader,John N. Nkengasong +34 more
TL;DR: Current capacity for viral load testing based on equipment provided by manufacturers and progress with viral load monitoring of patients on ART in seven sub-Saharan countries during January 2015-June 2016 are examined.
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HIV testing in community pharmacies and retail clinics: a model to expand access to screening for HIV infection.
Paul J. Weidle,Shirley Lee Lecher,Linda W. Botts,La Dawna Jones,David H. Spach,Jorge Alvarez,Rhondette Jones,Vasavi Thomas +7 more
TL;DR: This pilot project established HIV testing in several community pharmacies and retail clinics to be a feasible model for offering rapid, point-of-care HIV testing and demonstrated the willingness and ability of staff at community Pharmacy and Retail clinics to provide confidential HIV testing to patients.
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Attitudes toward family planning among HIV-positive pregnant women enrolled in a prevention of mother-to-child transmission study in Kisumu, Kenya.
Victor Akelo,Victor Akelo,Sonali Girde,Sonali Girde,Craig B. Borkowf,Frank Angira,Kevin Achola,Richard Lando,Lisa A. Mills,Timothy K. Thomas,Shirley Lee Lecher +10 more
TL;DR: A significant gap exists between future FP intentions and current FP practices, and integration of individual and couple FP services into routine HIV care, treatment and support services is needed in order to avoid unintended pregnancies and to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission.
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Performance of Repeat BinaxNOW Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Antigen Testing in a Community Setting, Wisconsin, November 2020-December 2020.
Melisa M Shah,Phillip P. Salvatore,Laura Ford,Emiko Kamitani,Melissa J. Whaley,Kaitlin Mitchell,Dustin W Currie,Clint N Morgan,Hannah E Segaloff,Hannah E Segaloff,Shirley Lee Lecher,Tarah Somers,Miriam E Van Dyke,John Paul Bigouette,Augustina Delaney,Juliana DaSilva,Michelle O'Hegarty,Lauren Boyle-Estheimer,Fatima Abdirizak,Sandor E. Karpathy,Jennifer K. Meece,Lynn Ivanic,Kimberly Goffard,Doug Gieryn,Alana K. Sterkel,Allen C. Bateman,Juliana Kahrs,Kimberly Langolf,Tara Zochert,Nancy W. Knight,Christopher H. Hsu,Hannah L Kirking,Jacqueline E. Tate +32 more
TL;DR: In this article, the BinaxNOW antigen test for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 using two groups of readers within 30 minutes resulted in high concordance (98.9%) in 2110 encounters.