[HTML][HTML] What will it take for the Global Plan priority countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV?

AE Goga, TH Dinh, S Essajee, W Chirinda… - BMC Infectious …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Background The 2016 'Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free'global agenda, builds on
the 2011-2015 'Global Plan'. It prioritises 22 countries where 90% of the world's HIV-positive …

[HTML][HTML] HIV surveillance among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics: evolution and current direction

J Dee, JMG Calleja, K Marsh, I Zaidi… - JMIR public health …, 2017 - publichealth.jmir.org
Since the late 1980s, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) sentinel serosurveillance among
pregnant women attending select antenatal clinics (ANCs) based on unlinked anonymous …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating the quality of HIV rapid testing practices in public antenatal health care facilities, South Africa

DF Nsibande, SA Woldesenbet, A Puren, P Barron… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Monitoring HIV prevalence using antenatal HIV sentinel surveillance is important for efficient
epidemic tracking, programme planning and resource allocation. HIV sentinel surveillance …

[HTML][HTML] High genotypic diversity of human papillomavirus among women in Cameroon: implications for vaccine effectiveness

MCT Tchouaket, J Fokam, SM Sosso, ENJ Semengue… - IJID regions, 2022 - Elsevier
Background The burden of human papillomavirus (HPV) is high in Cameroon, but
knowledge on high-risk oncogenic HPV (HR-HPV) is limited. Our study sought to ascertain …

[HTML][HTML] HIV surveillance based on routine testing data from antenatal clinics in Malawi (2011–2018): measuring and adjusting for bias from imperfect testing coverage

M Maheu-Giroux, A Jahn, T Kalua, A Mganga… - Aids, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The use of routinely collected data from prevention of mother-to-child
transmission programs (ANC-RT) has been proposed to monitor HIV epidemic trends. This …

[HTML][HTML] Human papillomavirus positivity and cervical lesions in relation to HIV infection: a comparative assessment in the Cameroonian female population

SM Sosso, MCT Tchouaket, J Fokam… - Journal of Public …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cervical lesions, induced by high-risk oncogenic human papillomavirus (HR-HPV), in the
context of HIV remains a global health challenge. We determined the effect of HR-HPV on …

Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of hiv in Yaounde: barrier to care

CC Landefeld, LA Fomenou, F Ateba, P Msellati - AIDS care, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Most HIV-infected children in Sub-Saharan Africa are born where programs for the
prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) exist but are not universally …

[HTML][HTML] From Option B+ to Universal “Test and Treat” in Cameroon: Identification and Evaluation of District-level Factors Associated with Retention in Care

JM Njah, GE Halle-Ekane, SN Atanga… - … Journal of Maternal …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods: From September 1, 2015, to February 29, 2016, we reviewed the records of
pregnant and breastfeeding women initiating Option B+, a lifelong approach to preventing …

[PDF][PDF] The declining trend of HIV-Infection among pregnant women in Cameroon infers an epidemic decline in the general population

SC Billong, J Fokam, J de Dieu Anoubissi, CK Nde… - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
Background HIV remains a generalised epidemic in Cameroon, with regular sentinel
surveillance surveys (SSS) conducted among pregnant women to monitor the …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of prevention of parent-to-child HIV transmission programme & national biennial HIV sentinel surveillance data for tracking HIV epidemic in India

PVM Lakshmi, A Elangovan, T Bhatnagar… - Indian Journal of …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Methods: Out of the 499 surveillance sites, where HSS and PPTCT programme was being
conducted in 2015, 210 sites (140 urban and 70 rural) were selected using a stratified …