Research Topics
| Erik J SchoutenSummaryAffiliation: Management Sciences for Health Publications
| Collaborators
|
Detail Information
Publications
Antiretroviral drug supply challenges in the era of scaling up ART in MalawiErik J Schouten
Management Sciences for Health, Lilongwe, Malawi
J Int AIDS Soc 14:S4. 2011....
A national survey of teachers on antiretroviral therapy in Malawi: access, retention in therapy and survivalSimon D Makombe
Clinical HIV Unit, Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi
PLoS ONE 2:e620. 2007..A national survey was conducted in all public sector and private sector facilities in Malawi providing antiretroviral therapy (ART) to determine the uptake of ART by teachers and their outcomes while on treatment...
Antiretroviral therapy in the Malawi police force: access to therapy and treatment outcomesSimon D Makombe
HIV Unit, Ministry of Health, PO Box 30377, Lilongwe, Malawi
Malawi Med J 20:23-7. 2008..2%, 78.6% and 76.7% respectively. There has been a good access of police force personnel to ART since national scale up commenced with good treatment outcomes, and this should serve as an example for other police forces in the region...
A national survey of prisoners on antiretroviral therapy in Malawi: access to treatment and outcomes on therapySimon D Makombe
Clinical HIV Unit, Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi
World Hosp Health Serv 44:26-9. 2008..The aim of this study was to measure access and treatment outcomes of prisoners on ART at the national level...
Malawi's contribution to "3 by 5": achievements and challengesEdwin Libamba
Clinical HIV Unit, Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi
Bull World Health Organ 85:156-60. 2007..While reports from individual clinics point to successful implementation, there is limited information about progress in government institutions at a national level...
Assessing the quality of data aggregated by antiretroviral treatment clinics in MalawiSimon D Makombe
Clinical HIV Unit, Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi
Bull World Health Organ 86:310-4. 2008..The accuracy and completeness of reports independently compiled by ART facilities, however, is often not known...
Outcomes of patients with Kaposi's sarcoma who start antiretroviral therapy under routine programme conditions in MalawiSimon D Makombe
Clinical HIV Unit, Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi
Trop Doct 38:5-7. 2008..HIV-positive KS patients on ART in Malawi have worse outcomes than other patients on ART. Methods designed to improve these outcomes must be found...
A national survey of the impact of rapid scale-up of antiretroviral therapy on health-care workers in Malawi: effects on human resources and survivalSimon D Makombe
HIV Unit, Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi
Bull World Health Organ 85:851-7. 2007..To assess the human resources impact of Malawis rapidly growing antiretroviral therapy (ART) programme and balance this against the survival benefit of health-care workers who have accessed ART themselves...
HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy in government and mission hospitals in Malawi: 2002-2007Kelita Kamoto
HIV Unit, Ministry of Health, PO Box 30377, Lilongwe, Malawi
Malawi Med J 20:4-6. 2008..There has been a rapid acceleration of HIV testing uptake and ART in government and mission hospitals. ART may facilitate the decision of clients to have an HIV test and therefore contribute in this way to HIV prevention efforts...
Different delivery models for antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa in the context of 'universal access'Anthony D Harries
HIV Unit, Ministry of Health, P O Box 30377, Lilongwe, Malawi
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 102:310-1. 2008..Failure to do otherwise is to court disaster...
Antiretroviral therapy in the Malawi defence force: access, treatment outcomes and impact on mortalityAlfred C Banda
Malawi Defence Force, Medical Department, Lilongwe, Malawi
PLoS ONE 3:e1445. 2008....
Ensuring uninterrupted supplies of antiretroviral drugs in resource-poor settings: an example from MalawiAnthony D Harries
Clinical HIV Unit, Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi
Bull World Health Organ 85:152-5. 2007..With many countries scaling up antiretroviral therapy (ART), it is vital to avoid interrupted drug supplies, which would lead to drug resistance and treatment failure...
A national survey of prisoners on antiretroviral therapy in Malawi: access to treatment and outcomes on therapySimon D Makombe
Clinical HIV Unit, Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi
J Infect Dev Ctries 1:303-7. 2007..The aim of this study was to measure access and treatment outcomes of prisoners on ART at the national level...
Supervision, monitoring and evaluation of nationwide scale-up of antiretroviral therapy in MalawiEdwin Libamba
Clinical HIV Unit, Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi
Bull World Health Organ 84:320-6. 2006..Making regular supervisory and monitoring visits to delivery sites are essential for tracking the national scale-up of delivery of antiretrovirals...
Who is accessing antiretroviral therapy during national scale-up in Malawi?Simon Makombe
Clinical HIV Unit, Ministry of Health, P O Box 30377, Lilongwe, Malawi
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 100:975-9. 2006..Steady progress is being made with national scale-up, although more attention needs to be directed to children, pregnant women and patients with TB to improve their access to ART...
Scaling up antiretroviral treatment in resource-poor settingsAnthony D Harries
Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi
Lancet 367:1870-2. 2006
Expanding antiretroviral therapy in Malawi: drawing on the country's experience with tuberculosisAnthony D Harries
HIV/AIDS Unit, Ministry of Health, PO Box 30377, Lilongwe, Malawi
BMJ 329:1163-6. 2004
