The winding road to health: A systematic scoping review on the effect of geographical accessibility to health care on infectious diseases in low-and middle-income …

F Hierink, EA Okiro, A Flahault, N Ray - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Geographical accessibility to healthcare is an important component of
infectious disease dynamics. Timely access to health facilities can prevent disease …

Geographic Information Systems, spatial analysis, and HIV in Africa: A scoping review

DC Boyda, SB Holzman, A Berman, MK Grabowski… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis are emerging tools
for global health, but it is unclear to what extent they have been applied to HIV research in …

Gendered relationship between HIV stigma and HIV testing among men and women in Mozambique: a cross-sectional study to inform a stigma reduction and male …

JH Ha, LM Van Lith, EC Mallalieu, J Chidassicua… - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Increasing and sustaining engagement in HIV care for people living with HIV are
critical to both individual therapeutic benefit and epidemic control. Men are less likely to test …

Geospatial hotspots need point-of-care strategies to stop highly infectious outbreaks: Ebola and coronavirus

GJ Kost - Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 2020 - meridian.allenpress.com
Context.—Point-of-care testing (POCT), diagnostic testing at or near the site of patient care,
is inherently spatial, that is, performed at points of need, and also intrinsically temporal …

Explaining inequity in knowledge, attitude, and services related to HIV/AIDS: a systematic review

A Endalamaw, CF Gilks, F Ambaw, WS Shiferaw… - BMC Public Health, 2024 - Springer
Background Equitable service provision and coverage are important responses to end the
threat of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Understanding inequity supports policies and programmes …

Geospatial science and point-of-care testing: creating solutions for population access, emergencies, outbreaks, and disasters

GJ Kost - Frontiers in public health, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Objectives:(a) To understand how to integrate geospatial concepts when implementing point-
of-care testing (POCT);(b) to facilitate emergency, outbreak, and disaster preparedness and …

Finding HIV in hard to reach populations: mobile HIV testing and geospatial mapping in Umlazi township, Durban, South Africa

IV Bassett, S Regan, H Mbonambi, J Blossom… - AIDS and Behavior, 2015 - Springer
Mobile, community-based HIV testing may help achieve universal HIV testing in South
Africa. We compared the yield, geographic distribution, and demographic characteristics of …

Using multilevel models to evaluate the influence of contextual factors on HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, and risky sexual behavior in sub-Saharan Africa: a …

M Ward-Peterson, K Fennie, D Mauck, M Shakir… - Annals of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose To describe the use of multilevel models (MLMs) in evaluating the influence of
contextual factors on HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and risky sexual …

Mapping geographic clusters of new HIV diagnoses to inform granular-level interventions for HIV epidemic control in western Kenya

H Muttai, B Guyah, T Achia, P Musingila, J Nakhumwa… - BMC public health, 2021 - Springer
Background As countries make progress towards HIV epidemic control, there is increasing
need to identify finer geographic areas to target HIV interventions. We mapped geographic …

Inequalities in the access to and quality of healthcare in Mozambique: evidence from the household budget survey

A Llop-Gironés, M Julià, S Chicumbe… - … Journal for Quality in …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Objectives To assess the inequalities in the access to and quality of care and its related
direct payments. Design Secondary analysis of the cross-sectional Mozambican Household …