Infectious Diseases
- Software Tools to Facilitate Community-Based Surveillance: A Scoping Review
Authors of this review identified software tools that could be used for community-based public health surveillance and facilitate faster communication of potential outbreaks, reporting, and coordination of response efforts.
- Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Financial Sustainability of the HIV Response in Nigeria: A Qualitative Study
The authors’ explored stakeholders’ perspectives on factors that affect the financial sustainability of the HIV response in Nigeria when donors withdraw. The findings can help decision-makers to develop, implement, and evaluate HIV financial sustainability plans.
- Experiences of Justice-Involved People Transitioning to HIV Care in the Community After Prison Release in Lusaka, Zambia: A Qualitative Study
HIV care for incarcerated PLHIV in sub-Saharan Africa has improved, but little is known about their post-release experience with care. The authors conducted a qualitative study to describe factors influencing post-release HIV care continuity in Zambia.
- Training a Continent: A Process Evaluation of Virtual Training on Infection Prevention and Control in Africa During COVID-19
Virtual training programs provide a feasible way to strengthen infection prevention and control in Africa.
- Evaluation of a Depression Intervention in People With HIV and/or TB in Eswatini Primary Care Facilities: Implications for Southern Africa
The authors assessed the feasibility and acceptability of a program integrating basic mental health care into nurse-led HIV and TB care in rural settings in Eswatini and identified key barriers to implementation and scale-up.
- Addressing the Need for a Preexposure Prophylaxis Monitoring and Evaluation Implementation Guide: Experience From Zambia
The authors share the experience of developing a national preexposure prophylaxis program monitoring and evaluation implementation guide in Zambia, which can inform approaches to meet similar needs in other sub-Saharan African countries.
- The First Differentiated TB Care Model From India: Delays and Predictors of Losses in the Care Cascade
The authors present the first published experience of a statewide differentiated TB care model from Tamil Nadu, India. The findings of this operational research guided the authors in closing the gaps in the care cascade.
- Novel Approaches to Postnatal Prophylaxis to Eliminate Vertical Transmission of HIV
Despite progress in providing antiretroviral therapy to pregnant women living with HIV, a substantial number of vertical transmissions continue to occur. Novel approaches leveraging modern potent, safe, and well-tolerated antiretroviral drugs are urgently needed.
- Toward Meaningful Cultural Adaptation Across Implementation Stages: Lessons Learned From a Culturally Based HIV Stigma Intervention in Gaborone, Botswana
A culturally based stigma intervention for pregnant women living with HIV in Gaborone, Botswana highlights the importance of conceptualizing and formalizing cultural adaptation across all stages of implementation.
- Preexposure Prophylaxis Among Pregnant and Lactating People in 18 PEPFAR-Supported Countries: A Review of HIV Strategies and Guidelines
The use of preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a safe, efficacious method to prevent HIV infections among pregnant and lactating people (PLP) and their infants. Despite growing support for PrEP use among PLP and notable changes in national policies, many policy gaps persist.