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University of Zambia
Education•Lusaka, Lusaka, Zambia•
About: University of Zambia is a education organization based out in Lusaka, Lusaka, Zambia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Health care. The organization has 2593 authors who have published 4402 publications receiving 122411 citations. The organization is also known as: UNZA.
Topics: Population, Health care, Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), Public health, Tuberculosis
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TL;DR: This study explores the impact of Zambia's Child Grant Program on a range of maternal health utilization outcomes using a randomized design and difference-in-differences multivariate regression from data collected over 24 months from 2010 to 2012.
Abstract: There is promising recent evidence that poverty-targeted social cash transfers have potential to improve maternal health outcomes; however, questions remain surrounding design features responsible for impacts. In addition, virtually no evidence exists from the African region. This study explores the impact of Zambia's Child Grant Program on a range of maternal health utilization outcomes using a randomized design and difference-in-differences multivariate regression from data collected over 24 months from 2010 to 2012. Results indicate that while there are no measurable program impacts among the main sample, there are heterogeneous impacts on skilled attendance at birth among a sample of women residing in households having better access to maternal health services. The latter result is particularly interesting because of the overall low level of health care availability in program areas suggesting that dedicated program design or matching supply-side interventions may be necessary to leverage unconditional cash transfers in similar settings to impact maternal health.
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TL;DR: The International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research (ICEMR) in Southern Africa aims to better understand the underlying malaria epidemiology, vector ecology and parasite genomics using three contrasting settings of malaria transmission in Zambia and Zimbabwe: an area of successful malaria control, an areas of resurgent malaria and an area where interventions have not been effective.
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TL;DR: HIV-infected individuals are a sizeable group among neurology patients in Zambia, and they are affected by a different disease spectrum than the general population, making up the largest percentage of inpatient neurological illness.
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TL;DR: The various settings and populations in which HIV testing might be implemented, and the goals to be achieved by that testing are considered, also the practical information public health decision makers in sub-Saharan Africa should have in order to choose an appropriate test or combination of tests for use in a particular clinical setting are defined.
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TL;DR: Adherence and retention in care were poorest among 16-29 year olds but similar in other groups, while age <30 years was associated with a higher likelihood of being lost to follow-up.
Abstract: We analyzed the association of age at antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation with CD4+ T cell count recovery, death, and loss to follow-up (LTFU) among HIV-infected adults in Zambia. We compared baseline characteristics of patients by sex and age at ART initiation [categorized as 16–29 years, 30–39 years, 40–49 years, 50–59 years, and 60 years and older]. We used the medication possession ratio to assess adherence and analysis of covariance to measure the adjusted change in CD4+ T cell count during ART. Using Cox proportional hazard regression, we examined the association of age with death and LTFU. In a secondary analysis, we repeated models with age as a continuous variable. Among 92,130 HIV-infected adults who initiated ART, the median age was 34 years and 6,281 (6.8%) were aged ≥50 years. Compared with 16–29 year olds, 40–49 year olds (–46 cells/mm3), 50–59 year olds (–53 cells/mm3), and 60+ year olds (–60 cells/mm3) had reduced CD4+ T cell gains during ART. The adjusted hazard ratio (AHR) f...
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Alimuddin Zumla | 100 | 747 | 43284 |
David Clark | 73 | 652 | 24857 |
Sten H. Vermund | 69 | 606 | 22181 |
Paul A. Kelly | 68 | 208 | 16836 |
Francis Drobniewski | 67 | 293 | 17371 |
Ayato Takada | 67 | 273 | 14467 |
Karl Peltzer | 60 | 880 | 18515 |
Hirofumi Sawa | 55 | 325 | 11735 |
Peter Godfrey-Faussett | 52 | 173 | 8486 |
Igor J. Koralnik | 52 | 197 | 10186 |
Peter Mwaba | 48 | 132 | 7386 |
Alison M. Elliott | 48 | 299 | 7772 |
Kelly Chibale | 47 | 337 | 7713 |
Chihiro Sugimoto | 47 | 325 | 7737 |
Sian Floyd | 47 | 163 | 6791 |