Building a tuberculosis-free world: The Lancet Commission on tuberculosis

MJA Reid, N Arinaminpathy, A Bloom, BR Bloom… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Tuberculosis can be treated, prevented, and cured. Rapid, sustained
declines in tuberculosis deaths in many countries during the past 50 years provide …

Are quality improvement collaboratives effective? A systematic review

S Wells, O Tamir, J Gray, D Naidoo… - BMJ quality & …, 2018 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Background Quality improvement collaboratives (QIC) have proliferated internationally, but
there is little empirical evidence for their effectiveness. Method We searched Medline …

Interventions to improve or facilitate linkage to or retention in pre‐ART (HIV) care and initiation of ART in low‐and middle‐income settings–a systematic review

D Govindasamy, J Meghij, EK Negussi… - Journal of the …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Several approaches have been taken to reduce pre‐antiretroviral therapy (ART)
losses between HIV testing and ART initiation in low‐and middle‐income countries, but a …

Evaluating health systems strengthening interventions in low-income and middle-income countries: are we asking the right questions?

T Adam, J Hsu, D De Savigny, JN Lavis… - Health policy and …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
In recent years, there have been several calls for rigorous health policy and systems
research to inform efforts to strengthen health systems (HS) in low-and middle-income …

Interventions to significantly improve service uptake and retention of HIV‐positive pregnant women and HIV‐exposed infants along the prevention of mother‐to‐child …

AC Vrazo, J Firth, A Amzel, R Sedillo… - Tropical Medicine & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Despite the success of Prevention of Mother‐to‐Child Transmission of HIV
(PMTCT) programmes, low uptake of services and poor retention pose a formidable …

Combination implementation for HIV prevention: moving from clinical trial evidence to population-level effects

LW Chang, D Serwadda, TC Quinn… - The Lancet infectious …, 2013 - thelancet.com
The promise of combination HIV prevention—the application of multiple HIV prevention
interventions to maximise population-level effects—has never been greater. However, to …

Do strategies to improve quality of maternal and child health care in lower and middle income countries lead to improved outcomes? A review of the evidence

Z Dettrick, S Firth, E Jimenez Soto - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Objectives Efforts to scale-up maternal and child health services in lower and middle income
countries will fail if services delivered are not of good quality. Although there is evidence of …

Engagement of men in antenatal care services: increased HIV testing and treatment uptake in a community participatory action program in Mozambique

CM Audet, M Blevins, YM Chire, MH Aliyu, LME Vaz… - AIDS and Behavior, 2016 - Springer
Uptake of HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy (ART) services during antenatal care (ANC)
in rural Mozambique is disappointing. To nurture supportive male engagement in ANC …

A continuous quality improvement intervention to improve the effectiveness of community health workers providing care to mothers and children: a cluster randomised …

C Horwood, L Butler, P Barker, S Phakathi… - Human resources for …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background Community health workers (CHWs) play key roles in delivering health
programmes in many countries worldwide. CHW programmes can improve coverage of …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the quality of routine data for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: an analytical observational study in two health districts with high …

E Nicol, L Dudley, D Bradshaw - International journal of medical informatics, 2016 - Elsevier
Background The prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) is a key
maternal and child-health intervention in the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in South …