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Charles Mwansambo

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Articles 70
Citations 2560
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General Medicine
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Anthony Costello
Tim Colbourn
Carina King
Eric D McCollum
Neil French
Norman Lufesi
Robert S Heyderman
Bejoy Nambiar
Naor Bar-Zeev
Tambosi Phiri
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Recent Articles
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Availability and use of personal protective equipment in low- and middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic
Drouard S, Ahmed T, Fernandez P, Baral P, Peters M, Hansen P, et al.
PLoS One . 2023 Jul; 18(7):e0288465. PMID: 37459298
Background: Availability and appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is of particular importance in Low and Middle-Income countries (LMICs) where disease outbreaks other than COVID-19 are frequent and health...
2.
Vaccine hesitancy among healthcare workers in low- and middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from facility surveys across six countries
Baral P, Ahmed T, Fernandez P, Peters M, Drouard S, Muhoza P, et al.
PLoS One . 2023 Jul; 18(7):e0288124. PMID: 37418435
Background: Vaccine hesitancy remains a critical barrier in mitigating the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The willingness of health care workers (HCWs) to be vaccinated, and, in turn, recommend...
3.
The use of innovative approaches to strengthen health system resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: case studies from selected Commonwealth countries
Mghamba J, Gilmour E, Robinson L, Simba A, Tuyishime A, Persaud A, et al.
Front Public Health . 2023 May; 11:1115415. PMID: 37181718
This article is part of the Research Topic 'Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict'. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities and limitations of many...
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Cross-sectional health centre and community-based evaluation of the impact of pneumococcal and malaria vaccination on antibiotic prescription and usage, febrile illness and antimicrobial resistance in young children in Malawi: the IVAR study protocol
Singleton D, Ibarz-Pavon A, Swarthout T, Bonomali F, Cornick J, Kalizangoma A, et al.
BMJ Open . 2023 May; 13(5):e069560. PMID: 37173105
Introduction: Vaccination is a potentially critical component of efforts to arrest development and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), though little is known about vaccination impact within low-income and middle-income countries....
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In-hospital mortality risk stratification in children aged under 5 years with pneumonia with or without pulse oximetry: A secondary analysis of the Pneumonia REsearch Partnership to Assess WHO REcommendations (PREPARE) dataset
Hooli S, King C, McCollum E, Colbourn T, Lufesi N, Mwansambo C, et al.
Int J Infect Dis . 2023 Feb; 129:240-250. PMID: 36805325
Objectives: We determined the pulse oximetry benefit in pediatric pneumonia mortality risk stratification and chest-indrawing pneumonia in-hospital mortality risk factors. Methods: We report the characteristics and in-hospital pneumonia-related mortality of...
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Assembling a global database of child pneumonia studies to inform WHO pneumonia management algorithm: Methodology and applications
Martin H, Falconer J, Addo-Yobo E, Aneja S, Arroyo L, Asghar R, et al.
J Glob Health . 2022 Dec; 12:04075. PMID: 36579417
Background: The existing World Health Organization (WHO) pneumonia case management guidelines rely on clinical symptoms and signs for identifying, classifying, and treating pneumonia in children up to 5 years old....
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Healthcare utilization and maternal and child mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in 18 low- and middle-income countries: An interrupted time-series analysis with mathematical modeling of administrative data
Ahmed T, Roberton T, Vergeer P, Hansen P, Peters M, Ofosu A, et al.
PLoS Med . 2022 Aug; 19(8):e1004070. PMID: 36040910
Background: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had wide-reaching direct and indirect impacts on population health. In low- and middle-income countries, these impacts can halt progress toward reducing maternal...
8.
Risk factors for pneumococcal carriage in adults living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy in the infant pneumococcal vaccine era in Malawi
Thindwa D, Mwalukomo T, Msefula J, Jambo K, Brown C, Kamngona A, et al.
AIDS . 2022 Aug; 36(14):2045-2055. PMID: 35983828
Objective: Adults living with HIV (ALWHIV) on antiretroviral therapy (ART) are at high risk of pneumococcal carriage and disease. To help evaluate carriage risk in African ALWHIV at least 4...
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Derivation and validation of a novel risk assessment tool to identify children aged 2-59 months at risk of hospitalised pneumonia-related mortality in 20 countries
Rees C, Colbourn T, Hooli S, King C, Lufesi N, McCollum E, et al.
BMJ Glob Health . 2022 Apr; 7(4). PMID: 35428680
Introduction: Existing risk assessment tools to identify children at risk of hospitalised pneumonia-related mortality have shown suboptimal discriminatory value during external validation. Our objective was to derive and validate a...
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Clinical pneumonia in the hospitalised child in Malawi in the post-pneumococcal conjugate vaccine era: a prospective hospital-based observational study
Iroh Tam P, Chirombo J, Henrion M, Newberry L, Mambule I, Everett D, et al.
BMJ Open . 2022 Feb; 12(2):e050188. PMID: 35135765
Objective: Assess characteristics of clinical pneumonia after introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV), by HIV exposure status, in children hospitalised in a governmental hospital in Malawi. Methods And Findings: We...