Tanya Doherty

Summary

Affiliation: Health Systems Trust
Country: South Africa

Publications

  1. ncbi Preventing HIV transmission to children: quality of counselling of mothers in South Africa
    Mickey Chopra
    School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa
    Acta Paediatr 94:357-63. 2005
  2. ncbi An update on HIV and infant feeding issues in developed and developing countries
    Debra J Jackson
    School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
    J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs 38:219-29. 2009
  3. ncbi Community health workers and professional nurses: defining the roles and understanding the relationships
    Tanya M Doherty
    Health Systems Trust, Cape Town, South Africa
    Public Health Nurs 22:360-5. 2005
  4. ncbi Health system constraints to optimal coverage of the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission programme in South Africa: lessons from the implementation of the national pilot programme
    Tanya M Doherty
    Health Systems Trust, Medical University of South Africa MEDUNSA, Rondebosch, Cape Town
    Afr Health Sci 5:213-8. 2005
  5. ncbi Effect of the HIV epidemic on infant feeding in South Africa: "When they see me coming with the tins they laugh at me"
    Tanya Doherty
    Health Systems Trust, 1st Floor Riverside Centre, Cape Town 7700, South Africa
    Bull World Health Organ 84:90-6. 2006
  6. ncbi Effectiveness of the WHO/UNICEF guidelines on infant feeding for HIV-positive women: results from a prospective cohort study in South Africa
    Tanya Doherty
    Medical Research Council, Health Systems Research Unit, Tygerberg, South Africa
    AIDS 21:1791-7. 2007
  7. ncbi Early cessation of breastfeeding amongst women in South Africa: an area needing urgent attention to improve child health
    Tanya Doherty
    Medical Research Council, Francie van Zyl Drive, Parow, Cape Town, South Africa
    BMC Pediatr 12:105. 2012
  8. ncbi Operational effectiveness of guidelines on complete breast-feeding cessation to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV: results from a prospective observational cohort study at routine prevention of mother-to-child transmission sites, South Africa
    Ameena E Goga
    Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa
    J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 50:521-8. 2009
  9. ncbi Why do families still not receive the child support grant in South Africa? A longitudinal analysis of a cohort of families across South Africa
    Wanga Zembe-Mkabile
    Medical Research Council, Francie van Zyl Drive, Parow, Cape Town, South Africa
    BMC Int Health Hum Rights 12:24. 2012
  10. ncbi Infant feeding practices at routine PMTCT sites, South Africa: results of a prospective observational study amongst HIV exposed and unexposed infants - birth to 9 months
    Ameena E Goga
    Medical Research Council, Tygerberg and Pretoria, Pretoria Regional Office, 1 Soutpansberg Road, Pretoria, Private Bag X385, Pretoria 0001, South Africa
    Int Breastfeed J 7:4. 2012

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Publications20

  1. ncbi Preventing HIV transmission to children: quality of counselling of mothers in South Africa
    Mickey Chopra
    School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa
    Acta Paediatr 94:357-63. 2005
    ..To assess the quality of counselling provided to mothers through the programme to prevent mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV in South Africa...
  2. ncbi An update on HIV and infant feeding issues in developed and developing countries
    Debra J Jackson
    School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
    J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs 38:219-29. 2009
    ..Current World Health Organization recommendations require individualized counseling to determine the best feeding method for each woman...
  3. ncbi Community health workers and professional nurses: defining the roles and understanding the relationships
    Tanya M Doherty
    Health Systems Trust, Cape Town, South Africa
    Public Health Nurs 22:360-5. 2005
    ..This article discusses some of the issues related to this cadre of health worker and their role in public health care structures...
  4. ncbi Health system constraints to optimal coverage of the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission programme in South Africa: lessons from the implementation of the national pilot programme
    Tanya M Doherty
    Health Systems Trust, Medical University of South Africa MEDUNSA, Rondebosch, Cape Town
    Afr Health Sci 5:213-8. 2005
    ..It is three years since the government of South Africa began implementing a PMTCT programme. Over this period of time attempts have been made to scale up this programme across all provinces under routine health service conditions...
  5. ncbi Effect of the HIV epidemic on infant feeding in South Africa: "When they see me coming with the tins they laugh at me"
    Tanya Doherty
    Health Systems Trust, 1st Floor Riverside Centre, Cape Town 7700, South Africa
    Bull World Health Organ 84:90-6. 2006
    ..To explore how the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic has affected the infant-feeding experiences of HIV-positive mothers in South Africa...
  6. ncbi Effectiveness of the WHO/UNICEF guidelines on infant feeding for HIV-positive women: results from a prospective cohort study in South Africa
    Tanya Doherty
    Medical Research Council, Health Systems Research Unit, Tygerberg, South Africa
    AIDS 21:1791-7. 2007
    ..Little is known about the effectiveness of the implementation of these guidelines in developing country settings...
  7. ncbi Early cessation of breastfeeding amongst women in South Africa: an area needing urgent attention to improve child health
    Tanya Doherty
    Medical Research Council, Francie van Zyl Drive, Parow, Cape Town, South Africa
    BMC Pediatr 12:105. 2012
    ..Early cessation of breastfeeding has been found to have negative effects on child morbidity and survival in several studies in Africa. This paper reports on determinants of early breastfeeding cessation among women in South Africa...
  8. ncbi Operational effectiveness of guidelines on complete breast-feeding cessation to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV: results from a prospective observational cohort study at routine prevention of mother-to-child transmission sites, South Africa
    Ameena E Goga
    Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa
    J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 50:521-8. 2009
    ..Until 2006, HIV-positive women who chose to exclusively breast-feed were advised to completely stop breast-feeding by 6 months. We investigated operational feasibility and predictors of complete breast-feeding cessation (CBC)...
  9. ncbi Why do families still not receive the child support grant in South Africa? A longitudinal analysis of a cohort of families across South Africa
    Wanga Zembe-Mkabile
    Medical Research Council, Francie van Zyl Drive, Parow, Cape Town, South Africa
    BMC Int Health Hum Rights 12:24. 2012
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  10. ncbi Infant feeding practices at routine PMTCT sites, South Africa: results of a prospective observational study amongst HIV exposed and unexposed infants - birth to 9 months
    Ameena E Goga
    Medical Research Council, Tygerberg and Pretoria, Pretoria Regional Office, 1 Soutpansberg Road, Pretoria, Private Bag X385, Pretoria 0001, South Africa
    Int Breastfeed J 7:4. 2012
    ..abstract:..
  11. ncbi Implications of the new WHO guidelines on HIV and infant feeding for child survival in South Africa
    Tanya Doherty
    Medical Research Council, Francie van Zyl Drive, Parrow, Cape Town, South Africa
    Bull World Health Organ 89:62-7. 2011
    ..This paper presents the latest evidence regarding mortality and morbidity associated with feeding practices in the context of HIV and suggests a modification of current policy to prioritize child survival for all South African children...
  12. ncbi Rapid assessment of infant feeding support to HIV-positive women accessing prevention of mother-to-child transmission services in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia
    Mickey Chopra
    Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Francie van Zyl Drive, Parow, Western Cape 7535, South Africa
    Public Health Nutr 12:2323-8. 2009
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  13. ncbi Client characteristics and acceptability of a home-based HIV counselling and testing intervention in rural South Africa
    Reshma Naik
    South African Medical Research Council, Francie van Zijl Drive, Parrowvallei, Tygerberg, South Africa
    BMC Public Health 12:824. 2012
    ..With the aim of informing scale up, this paper discusses client characteristics and acceptability of an HBHCT intervention implemented in rural South Africa...
  14. ncbi Knowledge of HIV status prior to a community HIV counseling and testing intervention in a rural district of south Africa: results of a community based survey
    Hanani Tabana
    Medical Research Council, Francie van Zyl Drive, Parrow, Cape Town, South Africa
    BMC Infect Dis 12:73. 2012
    ..The aim of this study was to undertake a community survey to determine rates of HCT in a rural area in order to plan a community intervention...
  15. ncbi Improving the coverage of the PMTCT programme through a participatory quality improvement intervention in South Africa
    Tanya Doherty
    Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Francie van Zyl Drive, Tygerberg, South Africa
    BMC Public Health 9:406. 2009
    ..We report on a data driven participatory quality improvement intervention implemented in a high HIV prevalence district in South Africa...
  16. ncbi Moving from vertical to integrated child health programmes: experiences from a multi-country assessment of the Child Health Days approach in Africa
    Tanya Doherty
    Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, South Africa
    Trop Med Int Health 15:296-305. 2010
    ..To assess the effect of child health days (CHDs) on coverage of child survival interventions, to document country experiences with CHDs and to identify ways in which CHDs have strengthened or depleted primary health care (PHC) services...
  17. ncbi Supervision of community peer counsellors for infant feeding in South Africa: an exploratory qualitative study
    Karen Daniels
    Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, South Africa
    Hum Resour Health 8:6. 2010
    ..Qualitative process evaluations can help fill this gap...
  18. ncbi A longitudinal qualitative study of infant-feeding decision making and practices among HIV-positive women in South Africa
    Tanya Doherty
    Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, 75185 Uppsala, Sweden
    J Nutr 136:2421-6. 2006
    ..Support for infant feeding that extends beyond the antenatal period is important to enable mothers to cope with new challenges and pressures at critical times during the early postpartum period...
  19. ncbi Operational effectiveness of single-dose nevirapine in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV
    Mark Colvin
    Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation CADRE, Private Bag X07, Dalbridge 4014, South Africa
    Bull World Health Organ 85:466-73. 2007
    ..To determine the operational effectiveness of the South African programme for preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV in reducing rates of early transmission of infection...
  20. ncbi Community-based situation analysis of maternal and neonatal care in South Africa to explore factors that impact utilization of maternal health services
    Pulani Tlebere
    United Nations Population Fund UNFPA Regional Directors Team, South Africa
    J Midwifery Womens Health 52:342-50. 2007
    ..Implications for maternal and infant health care in developing countries are discussed, with a particular focus on barriers to utilization and involvement of communities and families in maternity care...