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Tobias F Chirwa

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Ojifinni O, Shangase N, Reed K, Salisbury K, Chirwa T, Kagura J, et al.
Implement Sci Commun . 2024 Nov; 5(1):130. PMID: 39587677
Background: As implementation science (IS) in low and middle-income country settings continues to grow and generate interest, there is continual demand for capacity building in the field. Training programs have...
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Stanley C, Mukaka M, Kazembe L, Buchwald A, Mathanga D, Laufer M, et al.
Front Epidemiol . 2024 Mar; 2:924783. PMID: 38455327
Background: Recurrent clinical malaria episodes due to parasite infection are common in endemic regions. With each infection, acquired immunity develops, making subsequent disease episodes less likely. To capture the effect...
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Narh-Bana S, Kawonga M, Odopey S, Bonsu F, Ibisomi L, Chirwa T
BMC Health Serv Res . 2022 Jul; 22(1):898. PMID: 35818070
Background: Decreasing the burden of Tuberculosis (TB) among PLHIV through TB screening is an effective intervention recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). However, after over a decade of implementation...
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Igumbor J, Bosire E, Vicente-Crespo M, Igumbor E, Olalekan U, Chirwa T, et al.
Wellcome Open Res . 2022 Feb; 6:214. PMID: 35224211
The rising digitisation and proliferation of data sources and repositories cannot be ignored. This trend expands opportunities to integrate and share population health data. Such platforms have many benefits, including...
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Narh-Bana S, Chirwa T, Chirwa E, Bonsu F, Ibisomi L, Kawonga M
BMC Health Serv Res . 2021 Oct; 21(1):1110. PMID: 34656125
Background: Tuberculosis screening of people living with HIV (PLHIV) - an intervention to reduce the burden of TB among PLHIV - is being implemented at HIV clinics in Ghana since...
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Narh-Bana S, Kawonga M, Chirwa E, Ibisomi L, Bonsu F, Chirwa T
PLoS One . 2021 Sep; 16(9):e0257486. PMID: 34534240
Introduction: Tuberculosis screening of people living with human immunodeficiency virus is an intervention recommended by the WHO to control the dual epidemic of TB and HIV. The extent to which...
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Matsena Zingoni Z, Chirwa T, Todd J, Musenge E
Theor Biol Med Model . 2021 Aug; 18(1):16. PMID: 34419087
Background: This study aimed to jointly model HIV disease progression patterns based on viral load (VL) among adult ART patients adjusting for the time-varying "incremental transients states" variable, and the...
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Matsena Zingoni Z, Chirwa T, Todd J, Musenge E
Stat Methods Med Res . 2021 Apr; 30(5):1373-1392. PMID: 33826459
There are numerous fields of science in which multistate models are used, including biomedical research and health economics. In biomedical studies, these stochastic continuous-time models are used to describe the...
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Chirwa T, Matsena Zingoni Z, Munyewende P, Manda S, Mwambi H, Kandala N, et al.
AAS Open Res . 2021 Jan; 3:51. PMID: 33501413
The increase in health research in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has led to a high demand for biostatisticians to develop study designs, contribute and apply statistical methods in data analyses. Initiatives...
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Matsena Zingoni Z, Chirwa T, Todd J, Musenge E
Front Public Health . 2019 Dec; 7:326. PMID: 31803702
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) impact has prolonged survival of people living with HIV. We evaluated HIV disease progression among ART patients using routinely collected patient-level data between 2004 and 2017 in...