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| N McGrathSummaryAffiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Country: UK Publications
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Design and methods of a longitudinal study investigating the impact of antiretroviral treatment on the partnerships and sexual behaviour of HIV-infected individuals in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaNuala McGrath
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
BMC Public Health 11:121. 2011..This includes improving the availability of longitudinal demographic and health data on HIV-infected individuals who have accessed ART services but who are not yet ART-eligible...
Estimating the need for antiretroviral treatment and an assessment of a simplified HIV/AIDS case definition in rural MalawiNuala 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...- Age at first sex in rural South AfricaN McGrath
Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Sex Transm Infect 85:i49-55. 2009..To identify factors associated with sexual debut and early age at first sex (AFS) among young men and women (12-25 years) in a population with a high prevalence and incidence of HIV in rural South Africa... - What happens to ART-eligible patients who do not start ART? Dropout between screening and ART initiation: a cohort study in Karonga, MalawiNuala 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... - Trends in marriage and time spent single in sub-Saharan Africa: a comparative analysis of six population-based cohort studies and nine Demographic and Health SurveysM Marston
Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Sex Transm Infect 85:i64-71. 2009..To describe trends in age at first sex (AFS), age at first marriage (AFM) and time spent single between events and to compare age-specific trends in marital status in six cohort studies... - Declining child mortality in northern Malawi despite high rates of infection with HIVA 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... - Low effectiveness of syndromic treatment services for curable sexually transmitted infections in rural South AfricaR G White
Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK
Sex Transm Infect 84:528-34. 2008..We estimate the effectiveness of syndromic treatment for curable STIs in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and the trend in STI prevalences before and after the introduction of syndromic treatment in 1995... 
Ascertainment of childhood vaccination histories in northern MalawiA 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...- Population differences in immune responses to Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccination in infancyMaeve K Lalor
Immunology Unit, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
J Infect Dis 199:795-800. 2009..We conclude that population differences in immune responses after BCG vaccination are observed among infants, as well as among young adults... - Individual, household and community factors associated with HIV test refusal in rural MalawiKatharina 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... - The impact of adult mortality on household dissolution and migration in rural South AfricaVictoria Hosegood
Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, Mtubatuba, South Africa
AIDS 18:1585-90. 2004..To investigate the effect of adult death on household dissolution and migration... - Population-level effect of HIV on adult mortality and early evidence of reversal after introduction of antiretroviral therapy in MalawiAndreas 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... - The effects of high HIV prevalence on orphanhood and living arrangements of children in Malawi, Tanzania, and South AfricaVictoria Hosegood
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Popul Stud (Camb) 61:327-36. 2007..For example, we find no evidence that the prevalence of child-headed households is significant or has increased in the three study areas... - Comparative assessment of the quality of age-at-event reporting in three HIV cohort studies in sub-Saharan AfricaA Wringe
Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Sex Transm Infect 85:i56-63. 2009..To assess inconsistencies in reported age at first sex (AFS) and age at first marriage (AFM) in three African cohorts, and consider their implications for interpreting trends in sexual and marital debut... - HIV epidemic trend and antiretroviral treatment need in Karonga District, MalawiR 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... - Implication of new WHO growth standards on identification of risk factors and estimated prevalence of malnutrition in rural Malawian infantsMarc 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... - Child mortality in rural Malawi: HIV closes the survival gap between the socio-economic strataAndreas 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... - Refining the criteria for stalled fertility declines: an application to rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 1990-2005Tom A Moultrie
Centre for Actuarial Research, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Stud Fam Plann 39:39-48. 2008..This identification of a stalled fertility decline provides the first evidence of such a stall in southern Africa, the region with the lowest fertility levels in sub-Saharan Africa... - Perceptions of anal sex in rural South AfricaCatherine Ndinda
School of Politics, University of KwaZulu Natal, Pietermartizburg, South Africa
Cult Health Sex 10:205-12. 2008..Discussion of anal sex among those who had heard about it linked it to socially marginal groups and asymmetrical power relations... - Effect of maternal multivitamin supplementation on the mental and psychomotor development of children who are born to HIV-1-infected mothers in TanzaniaNuala McGrath
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pediatrics 117:e216-25. 2006.... - The timing of mother-to-child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus infection and the neurodevelopment of children in TanzaniaNuala McGrath
Departments of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 25:47-52. 2006..To determine the association between the timing of mother-to-child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 and neurodevelopment among children born to HIV-1 infected mothers in Tanzania... - Teenage fertility rates falling in South AfricaTom A Moultrie
S Afr Med J 97:442-3. 2007