Publications by authors named "Henry Chibowa"

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  • * Researchers collected demographic and health data, along with urine and semen samples from 22 men, finding high rates of schistosome infection and co-infection with HPV and other STIs.
  • * The study highlights the complex interactions between zoonotic and hybrid schistosomes in causing MGS, illustrating significant challenges for diagnosis and treatment in low-resource areas.
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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. This study will evaluate the impact of vaccination on reducing carriage prevalence of resistant and extended spectrum beta-lactamase-producing and species. We will leverage two large ongoing cluster-randomised vaccine evaluations in Malawi assessing; first, adding a booster dose to the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) schedule, and second, introduction of the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine.

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Introduction: Although knowledge of HIV positivity is a necessary step towards engagement in HIV care, more than one quarter of HIV-positive Malawians remain unaware of their HIV status. Testing the sexual partners, guardians and children of HIV-positive persons (index case finding or ICF) is a promising way of identifying HIV-positive persons unaware of their HIV status. ICF can be passive where the HIV-positive individual (index) invites a partner (or contact) for HIV testing or active where a health provider assists the index with partner notification and offers HIV testing to the partner.

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