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Linah K Mwango

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Articles 6
Citations 100
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General Medicine
Public Health
Infectious Diseases
Top 10 Co-Authors
Cassidy W Claassen
Kalima Tembo
Caitlin Baumhart
Kirsten Stoebenau
Jackson Okuku
Brooke E Nichols
Choolwe Maambo
Brianna Lindsay
Chiti Bwalya
Bupe Musonda
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PLoS One
Glob Health Sci Pract
AIDS Res Ther
J Int AIDS Soc
AIDS Educ Prev
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Recent Articles
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Hospitalized with HIV in Zambia: individual and system factors driving the high burden of admissions and post-discharge mortality in the era of HIV epidemic control
Bwalya C, Stoebenau K, Muchanga G, Mwale M, Maambo C, Banda S, et al.
AIDS Res Ther . 2025 Feb; 22(1):22. PMID: 39994735
Background: Despite progress towards HIV epidemic control, people living with HIV (PLHIV) in Zambia continue to face high mortality during and especially after hospitalization, with suboptimal post-discharge care leading to...
2.
Barriers and facilitators to uptake and persistence on prep among key populations in Southern Province, Zambia: a thematic analysis
Stoebenau K, Muchanga G, Ahmad S, Bwalya C, Mwale M, Toussaint S, et al.
BMC Public Health . 2024 Jun; 24(1):1617. PMID: 38886691
Background: Especially in high HIV prevalence contexts, such as Zambia, effective biomedical prevention tools are needed for priority populations (PPs), including key populations (KPs), who are at higher risk. HIV...
3.
Fostering Access to PrEP Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women Aged 16 to 24 Years at High Risk of HIV Through the DREAMS Initiative in Four Districts in Zambia
Chipukuma J, Lindsay B, Mwango L, Olowski P, Baumhart C, Tembo K, et al.
AIDS Educ Prev . 2023 Jul; 35:52-66. PMID: 37406141
Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa remain at high risk for HIV, yet limited data exist on implementation of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for this group. We...
4.
Addressing the Need for a Preexposure Prophylaxis Monitoring and Evaluation Implementation Guide: Experience From Zambia
Lavoie M, Blanco N, Mwango L, Nichols B, Whittington A, Lindsay B, et al.
Glob Health Sci Pract . 2023 Apr; 11(2). PMID: 37116937
Background: The HIV care continuum comprises well-defined steps and indicators. In contrast, indicators along the preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) cascade are still in the early stages of implementation. Monitoring and evaluation...
5.
Initial implementation of PrEP in Zambia: health policy development and service delivery scale-up
Claassen C, Mumba D, Njelesani M, Nyimbili D, Mwango L, Mwitumwa M, et al.
BMJ Open . 2021 Jul; 11(7):e047017. PMID: 34244265
Introduction: Daily pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention is highly effective, but not yet widely deployed in sub-Saharan Africa. We describe how Zambia developed PrEP health policy and then successfully...
6.
Index and targeted community-based testing to optimize HIV case finding and ART linkage among men in Zambia
Mwango L, Stafford K, Blanco N, Lavoie M, Mujansi M, Nyirongo N, et al.
J Int AIDS Soc . 2020 Jun; 23 Suppl 2:e25520. PMID: 32589360
Introduction: Current healthcare systems fail to provide adequate HIV services to men. In Zambia, 25% of adult men living with HIV were unaware of their HIV status in 2018, and...
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Strengthening health systems at facility-level: feasibility of integrating antiretroviral therapy into primary health care services in lusaka, zambia
Topp S, Chipukuma J, Giganti M, Mwango L, Chiko L, Tambatamba-Chapula B, et al.
PLoS One . 2010 Jul; 5(7):e11522. PMID: 20644629
Introduction: HIV care and treatment services are primarily delivered in vertical antiretroviral (ART) clinics in sub-Saharan Africa but there have been concerns over the impact on existing primary health care...