A Jahn

Summary

Affiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Estimating the need for antiretroviral treatment and an assessment of a simplified HIV/AIDS case definition in rural Malawi
    Nuala McGrath
    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
    AIDS 21:S105-13. 2007
  2. ncbi Population-level effect of HIV on adult mortality and early evidence of reversal after introduction of antiretroviral therapy in Malawi
    Andreas Jahn
    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
    Lancet 371:1603-11. 2008
  3. ncbi Ascertainment of childhood vaccination histories in northern Malawi
    A Jahn
    Karonga Prevention Study, Chilumba, Malawi
    Trop Med Int Health 13:129-38. 2008
  4. ncbi Declining child mortality in northern Malawi despite high rates of infection with HIV
    A Jahn
    Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, WC1E 7HT, England
    Bull World Health Organ 88:746-53. 2010
  5. ncbi HIV epidemic trend and antiretroviral treatment need in Karonga District, Malawi
    R G White
    Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
    Epidemiol Infect 135:922-32. 2007
  6. ncbi What happens to ART-eligible patients who do not start ART? Dropout between screening and ART initiation: a cohort study in Karonga, Malawi
    Nuala McGrath
    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
    BMC Public Health 10:601. 2010
  7. ncbi Individual, household and community factors associated with HIV test refusal in rural Malawi
    Katharina Kranzer
    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
    Trop Med Int Health 13:1341-50. 2008
  8. ncbi Use of antenatal clinic surveillance to assess the effect of sexual behavior on HIV prevalence in young women in Karonga district, Malawi
    Amelia Catharine Crampin
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
    J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 48:196-202. 2008
  9. ncbi Population-level reduction in adult mortality after extension of free anti-retroviral therapy provision into rural areas in northern Malawi
    Sian Floyd
    Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 5:e13499. 2010
  10. ncbi Child mortality in rural Malawi: HIV closes the survival gap between the socio-economic strata
    Andreas Jahn
    Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 5:e11320. 2010

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Publications17

  1. ncbi Estimating the need for antiretroviral treatment and an assessment of a simplified HIV/AIDS case definition in rural Malawi
    Nuala McGrath
    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
    AIDS 21:S105-13. 2007
    ..We estimated HIV prevalence and assessed field staging of individuals to estimate the burden of HIV disease needing treatment in rural Malawi...
  2. ncbi Population-level effect of HIV on adult mortality and early evidence of reversal after introduction of antiretroviral therapy in Malawi
    Andreas Jahn
    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
    Lancet 371:1603-11. 2008
    ..We aimed to investigate mortality in a population before and after the introduction of free antiretroviral therapy, and therefore to assess the effects of such programmes on survival at the population level...
  3. ncbi Ascertainment of childhood vaccination histories in northern Malawi
    A Jahn
    Karonga Prevention Study, Chilumba, Malawi
    Trop Med Int Health 13:129-38. 2008
    ..To assess factors related to recorded vaccine uptake, which may confound the evaluation of vaccine impact...
  4. ncbi Declining child mortality in northern Malawi despite high rates of infection with HIV
    A Jahn
    Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, WC1E 7HT, England
    Bull World Health Organ 88:746-53. 2010
    ..To determine whether routine surveys, such as the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), have underestimated child mortality in Malawi...
  5. ncbi HIV epidemic trend and antiretroviral treatment need in Karonga District, Malawi
    R G White
    Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
    Epidemiol Infect 135:922-32. 2007
    ..1% of adults were in need of ART in 2005. This prediction was sensitive to the assumed eligibility period, ranging from 1.6% to 2.6% if the eligibility period was instead assumed to be 1.5 or 2.5 years, respectively...
  6. ncbi What happens to ART-eligible patients who do not start ART? Dropout between screening and ART initiation: a cohort study in Karonga, Malawi
    Nuala McGrath
    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
    BMC Public Health 10:601. 2010
    ..We aimed to investigate the outcome of those who are eligible but do not start ART in the Malawi programme, factors associated with this dropout, and reasons for not starting treatment, in a prospective cohort study...
  7. ncbi Individual, household and community factors associated with HIV test refusal in rural Malawi
    Katharina Kranzer
    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
    Trop Med Int Health 13:1341-50. 2008
    ..To investigate individual, household and community factors associated with HIV test refusal in a counselling and testing programme offered at population level in rural Malawi...
  8. ncbi Use of antenatal clinic surveillance to assess the effect of sexual behavior on HIV prevalence in young women in Karonga district, Malawi
    Amelia Catharine Crampin
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
    J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 48:196-202. 2008
    ..Sexual behavior monitoring to explain HIV distribution and trends is seldom attempted in ANC surveys. We explore the use of marital history in ANC surveillance as a proxy for sexual behavior...
  9. ncbi Population-level reduction in adult mortality after extension of free anti-retroviral therapy provision into rural areas in northern Malawi
    Sian Floyd
    Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 5:e13499. 2010
    ..It is important to see if the impact changes with time since the start of treatment scale-up, and as treatment moves to smaller clinics...
  10. ncbi Child mortality in rural Malawi: HIV closes the survival gap between the socio-economic strata
    Andreas Jahn
    Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 5:e11320. 2010
    ..As HIV-related deaths increase in a population the usual association between low socioeconomic status and child mortality may change, particularly as death rates from other causes decline...
  11. ncbi Implication of new WHO growth standards on identification of risk factors and estimated prevalence of malnutrition in rural Malawian infants
    Marc André Prost
    Epidemiology and Population Health Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 3:e2684. 2008
    ..We assessed how switching from the NCHS to the newly released WHO Growth Standards affects the estimated prevalence of wasting, underweight and stunting, and the pattern of risk factors identified...
  12. ncbi A national survey of the impact of rapid scale-up of antiretroviral therapy on health-care workers in Malawi: effects on human resources and survival
    Simon 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...
  13. ncbi Antiretroviral therapy in the Malawi defence force: access, treatment outcomes and impact on mortality
    Alfred C Banda
    Malawi Defence Force, Medical Department, Lilongwe, Malawi
    PLoS ONE 3:e1445. 2008
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  14. ncbi A national survey of prisoners on antiretroviral therapy in Malawi: access to treatment and outcomes on therapy
    Simon 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...
  15. ncbi Assessing the quality of data aggregated by antiretroviral treatment clinics in Malawi
    Simon 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...
  16. ncbi Adapting the DOTS framework for tuberculosis control to the management of non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa
    Anthony D Harries
    Clinical HIV Unit, Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi
    PLoS Med 5:e124. 2008
  17. ncbi 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...