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Anath Rwebembera

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Articles 17
Citations 133
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Infectious Diseases
General Medicine
Science
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Kokuhumbya Kazaura
Haruka Maruyama
Oscar Ernest Rwabiyago
Gerald Kundi
Omari Msumi
Claire Steiner
Rachel Weber
Sherri Pals
Duncan MacKellar
Johnita Byrd
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PLoS One
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr
AIDS Care
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care
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Recent Articles
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Optimizing delivery strategies for 3HP TB preventive treatment in Tanzania: A qualitative study on acceptability of family approach in HIV care and treatment centers
Pamba D, Sanga E, Mlalama K, Maganga L, Mangu C, Lwilla A, et al.
PLOS Glob Public Health . 2024 Dec; 4(12):e0003142. PMID: 39689067
Tanzania rolled-out a 12-dose, weekly regimen of isoniazid plus rifapentine (3HP) TB preventive treatment in January 2024. The 3HP completion rate is generally ≥80%, varying by delivery strategy and programmatic...
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HIV viral suppression in the era of dolutegravir use: Findings from a national survey in Tanzania
Kamori D, Barabona G, Maokola W, Rugemalila J, Mahiti M, Mizinduko M, et al.
PLoS One . 2024 Aug; 19(8):e0307003. PMID: 39141647
Background: Tanzania has made significant progress in improving access to HIV care and treatment. However, virologic suppression among people living with HIV (PLHIV) has not been fully realized. In March...
3.
Accelerating COVID-19 Vaccination Among People Living With HIV and Health Care Workers in Tanzania: A Case Study
Jalloh M, Tinuga F, Dahoma M, Rwebembera A, Kapologwe N, Magesa D, et al.
Glob Health Sci Pract . 2024 May; 12(3). PMID: 38806223
Background: There is limited evidence on COVID-19 vaccination uptake among people living with HIV (PLHIV) and health care workers (HCWs), with the current evidence concentrated in high-income countries. There is...
4.
Social network strategy (SNS) for HIV testing: a new approach for identifying individuals with undiagnosed HIV infection in Tanzania
Rwabiyago O, Katale A, Bingham T, Grund J, Machangu O, Medley A, et al.
AIDS Care . 2024 Mar; 36(sup1):201-210. PMID: 38502602
Social network strategy (SNS) testing uses network connections to refer individuals at high risk to HIV testing services (HTS). In Tanzania, SNS testing is offered in communities and health facilities....
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Cost-outcome analysis of HIV testing and counseling, linkage, and defaulter tracing services in Bukoba, Tanzania
Suraratdecha C, MacKellar D, Steiner C, Rwabiyago O, Cham H, Msumi O, et al.
AIDS Care . 2023 Aug; 36(6):744-751. PMID: 37607238
Effective services along the HIV continuum of care from HIV testing and counseling to linkage, and from linkage to antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation and retention, are key to improved health...
6.
A Model for Accelerating Access to Care and Treatment for Children and Adolescents Living with HIV in Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia: The Faith-Based Action for Scaling-Up Testing and Treatment for the Epidemic Response (FASTER) Initiative
Oliver D, Mabirizi D, Hast M, Alwano M, Chungu C, Kelemani A, et al.
J Int Assoc Provid AIDS Care . 2023 Jul; 22:23259582231186701. PMID: 37499208
The number of children newly infected with HIV dropped by 50%, from 320 000 in 2010 to 160 000 in 2021. Despite progress, ongoing gaps persist in diagnosis, continuity of...
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Emerging integrase strand transfer inhibitor drug resistance mutations among children and adults on ART in Tanzania: findings from a national representative HIV drug resistance survey
Kamori D, Barabona G, Rugemalila J, Maokola W, Masoud S, Mizinduko M, et al.
J Antimicrob Chemother . 2023 Jan; 78(3):779-787. PMID: 36680436
Background: Despite the scale-up of ART and the rollout in Tanzania of dolutegravir, an integrase strand transfer inhibitor (INSTI), treatment success has not been fully realized. HIV drug resistance (HIVDR),...
8.
Community-wide HIV testing, linkage case management, and defaulter tracing in Bukoba, Tanzania: pre-intervention and post-intervention, population-based survey evaluation
Steiner C, MacKellar D, Cham H, Rwabiyago O, Maruyama H, Msumi O, et al.
Lancet HIV . 2020 Sep; 7(10):e699-e710. PMID: 32888413
Background: Community randomised trials have had mixed success in implementing combination prevention strategies that diagnose 90% of people living with HIV, initiate and retain on antiretroviral therapy (ART) 90% of...
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Survival and HIV-Free Survival Among Children Aged ≤3 Years - Eight Sub-Saharan African Countries, 2015-2017
Jonnalagadda S, Yuengling K, Abrams E, Stupp P, Voetsch A, Patel M, et al.
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep . 2020 May; 69(19):582-586. PMID: 32407305
Although mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is preventable through antiretroviral treatment (ART) during pregnancy and postpartum, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) estimates that 160,000...
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Threefold Increases in Population HIV Viral Load Suppression Among Men and Young Adults - Bukoba Municipal Council, Tanzania, 2014-2017
MacKellar D, Steiner C, Rwabiyago O, Cham H, Pals S, Maruyama H, et al.
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep . 2019 Aug; 68(30):658-663. PMID: 31369522
Reducing HIV-related morbidity and mortality, and effectively eliminating HIV transmission risk, depends on use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to achieve and maintain viral load suppression (VLS)* (1,2). By 2020, sub-Saharan...