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| Ties BoermaSummaryAffiliation: World Health Organization Country: Switzerland Publications
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The effect of AIDS on maternal mortality in Malawi and ZimbabweGeorge Bicego
Demographic and Health Surveys, ORC Macro International, Calverton, MD, USA
AIDS 16:1078-81. 2002- Health statistics are no longer boring!Ties Boerma
World Health Organization, Geneva 1211 Switzerland
Lancet 369:718-9. 2007 
Health and functional status among older people with HIV/AIDS in UgandaFrancien Scholten
Medical Research Council Uganda Research Unit on on AIDS, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda
BMC Public Health 11:886. 2011..This aim of this study was to describe health among older people in association with the HIV epidemic...- Integrating demographic and epidemiological approaches to research on HIV/AIDS: the proximate-determinants frameworkJ Ties Boerma
Department of Epidemiology and Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
J Infect Dis 191:S61-7. 2005..The proximate-determinants framework can be used in study design, in the analysis and interpretation of risk factors or intervention studies that include both biological and behavioral data, and in ecological studies... - Monitoring the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy programmes: methods to estimate coverageJ Ties Boerma
The World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Bull World Health Organ 84:145-50. 2006..The mid-2005 estimate of 970,000 people receiving ART in low- and middle-income countries (with an uncertainty range 840,000-1,100,000) corresponds to a coverage of 15% of people in need of treatment... - Understanding the uneven spread of HIV within Africa: comparative study of biologic, behavioral, and contextual factors in rural populations in Tanzania and ZimbabweJ Ties Boerma
Department of Epidemiology and Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Sex Transm Dis 30:779-87. 2003..Large differences in the spread of HIV have been observed within sub-Saharan Africa... - Estimates of HIV-1 prevalence from national population-based surveys as a new gold standardJ Ties Boerma
Department of HIV/AIDS, WHO, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
Lancet 362:1929-31. 2003 - Health statistics now: are we making the right investments?J Ties Boerma
Evidence and Information for Policy, WHO, 1211 CH Geneva 27, Switzerland
Lancet 369:779-86. 2007.... - Transmission of HIV-1 infection in sub-Saharan Africa and effect of elimination of unsafe injectionsGeorge P Schmid
WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
Lancet 363:482-8. 2004..Increased efforts are needed to reduce sexual transmission of HIV-1... - From people to places: focusing AIDS prevention efforts where it matters mostSharon S Weir
Department of Epidemiology School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27516, USA
AIDS 17:895-903. 2003..To develop and implement a method to identify and characterize places where people meet new sexual partners and to assess HIV prevention program coverage in those places... - Health information systems: the foundations of public healthCarla AbouZahr
Measurement and Health Information Systems, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Bull World Health Organ 83:578-83. 2005..The Health Metrics Network, a global collaboration in the making, is intended to help bring such solutions to the countries most in need... 
Global and regional causes of deathColin D Mathers
Department of Health statistics and informatics, World Health Organization, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Br Med Bull 92:7-32. 2009..The paper also examines some of the data gaps, uncertainties and limitations in the resulting mortality estimates...- Social determinants of self-reported health in women and men: understanding the role of gender in population healthAhmad Reza Hosseinpoor
Department of Health Statistics and Information Systems, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
PLoS ONE 7:e34799. 2012..Women and men share similar health challenges yet women report poorer health. The study investigates the social determinants of self-reported health in women and men, and male-female differences in health... - Cost and results of information systems for health and poverty indicators in the United Republic of TanzaniaVanessa Rommelmann
Statistics Research Division, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Bull World Health Organ 83:569-77. 2005..In future, formal cost-effectiveness studies of complementary information systems would help guide investments in the monitoring, evaluation and planning needed to demonstrate the impact of poverty-reduction and health programmes... - Assessment of the health system and policy environment as a critical complement to tracking intervention coverage for maternal, newborn, and child healthEleonora Cavagnero
WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
Lancet 371:1284-93. 2008.... - WHO and Global Health Monitoring: The Way ForwardJ Ties Boerma
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
PLoS Med 7:e1000373. 2010b>Ties Boerma and colleagues from WHO describe the agency's work and future in health indicator monitoring, as part of a cluster of PLoS Medicine articles on global health estimates. - Mind the gap: equity and trends in coverage of maternal, newborn, and child health services in 54 Countdown countriesJ Ties Boerma
WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
Lancet 371:1259-67. 2008..We have assessed equity and trends in coverage rates of a key set of interventions through a summary index, to provide overall insight into past performance and progress perspectives... - Age at first sex: understanding recent trends in African demographic surveysB Zaba
Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Sex Transm Infect 80:ii28-35. 2004..To describe recent trends in age at first sex in African countries, identifying and making due allowances for a variety of common reporting errors... - Secretive females or swaggering males? An assessment of the quality of sexual partnership reporting in rural TanzaniaSoori Nnko
National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania
Soc Sci Med 59:299-310. 2004..For men, however, there is only a weak association between number of partnerships and the risk of HIV, and it cannot be excluded that men, especially single men, exaggerate the number of sexual partners... - HIV infection does not disproportionately affect the poorer in sub-Saharan AfricaVinod Mishra
Macro International Inc, Calverton, Maryland, USA
AIDS 21:S17-28. 2007..Wealthier populations do better than poorer ones on most measures of health status, including nutrition, morbidity and mortality, and healthcare utilization... - Estimating incidence from prevalence in generalised HIV epidemics: methods and validationTimothy B Hallett
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
PLoS Med 5:e80. 2008..Repeated cross-sectional measures of HIV prevalence are now becoming available for general populations in many countries, and we aim to develop and validate methods that use these data to estimate HIV incidence... - Trends in HIV and sexual behaviour in a longitudinal study in a rural population in Tanzania, 1994-2000Gabriel Mwaluko
TANESA Project, PO Box 434, Mwanza, Tanzania
AIDS 17:2645-51. 2003.... - The association between HIV and fertility in a cohort study in rural TanzaniaSusan-Catherine Hunter
Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London
J Biosoc Sci 35:189-99. 2003..Use of modern contraception was higher among HIV-infected women. However, both among contracepting and non-contracepting women, a substantial reduction in fertility was seen among HIV-infected women... - HIV prevalence and trends in sub-Saharan Africa: no decline and large subregional differencesEmil Asamoah-Odei
WHO Regional Office for Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe
Lancet 364:35-40. 2004..However, only analysis of surveillance data from the same populations over time can provide insight into trends of HIV prevalence. We have used data from the same antenatal clinics to document recent empirical trends... - HIV testing in national population-based surveys: experience from the Demographic and Health SurveysVinod Mishra
Demographic and Health Research Division, ORC Macro, Calverton, MD 20705, USA
Bull World Health Organ 84:537-45. 2006.... - Demographic and socioeconomic impact of AIDS: taking stock of the empirical evidenceBasia Zaba
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
AIDS 18:S1-7. 2004 - The global impact of scaling up HIV/AIDS prevention programs in low- and middle-income countriesJohn Stover
Futures Group/Constella, Glastonbury, CT 06033, USA
Science 311:1474-6. 2006..Thus, greater spending on prevention now would not only prevent more than half the new infections that would occur from 2005 to 2015 but would actually produce a net financial saving as future costs for treatment and care are averted... - New strategies for HIV surveillance in resource-constrained settings: an overviewTheresa Diaz
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, Global AIDS Program, Atlanta, GA, USA
AIDS 19:S1-8. 2005.... - Orphanhood and childcare patterns in sub-Saharan Africa: an analysis of national surveys from 40 countriesRoeland Monasch
United Nations Children s Fund, New York, NY 10017, USA
AIDS 18:S55-65. 2004..Assess the impact of AIDS on prevalence of orphanhood and care patterns... - Measuring progress towards reducing health inequalitiesKenji Shibuya
Bull World Health Organ 83:162. 2005 - The role of behavioral data in HIV surveillanceBasia Zaba
Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
AIDS 19:S39-52. 2005..The paper concludes with recommendations for the methods and frequency with which to collect the data required for second-generation HIV surveillance... - Scaling up HIV/AIDS evaluationSara Bennett
Abt Associates, 4800 Montgomery Lane, Suite 600, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Lancet 367:79-82. 2006 - Violence-related mortality in Iraq from 2002 to 2006Amir H Alkhuzai
Federal Ministry of Health, Baghdad
N Engl J Med 358:484-93. 2008..Results from the Iraq Family Health Survey (IFHS), which was conducted in 2006 and 2007, provide new evidence on mortality in Iraq... 
Creating and validating an algorithm to measure AIDS mortality in the adult population using verbal autopsyBen A Lopman
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
PLoS Med 3:e312. 2006..A reliable tool that is independent of HIV status is needed for measuring the frequency of AIDS deaths and ultimately the impact of antiretroviral therapy on mortality...