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980 results match your criteria: "Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme[Affiliation]"
Int J Environ Res Public Health
March 2023
Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway.
Population exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) may result in detrimental health effects, especially to pregnant women, developing foetuses and young children. We are reporting the findings of a cross-sectional study of 605 mothers in their late pregnancy, recruited between August 2020 and July 2021 in southern Malawi, and their offspring. The aim was to measure the concentrations of selected POPs in their maternal serum and indicate associations with social demographic characteristics and birth outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Multimorb Comorb
March 2023
Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Multimorbidity has been framed as a pressing global health challenge that exposes the limits of systems organised around single diseases. This article seeks to expand and strengthen current thinking around multimorbidity by analysing its construction within the field of global health. We suggest that the significance of multimorbidity lies not only in challenging divisions between disease categories but also in what it reveals about the culture and history of transnational biomedicine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTuberculosis (TB) remains a major challenge in many domains including diagnosis, pathogenesis, prevention, treatment, drug resistance and long-term protection of the public health by vaccination. A controlled human infection model (CHIM) could potentially facilitate breakthroughs in each of these domains but has so far been considered impossible owing to technical and safety concerns. A systematic review of mycobacterial human challenge studies was carried out to evaluate progress to date, best possible ways forward and challenges to be overcome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWellcome Open Res
February 2022
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, L3 5QA, UK.
Background COVID-19 is currently a global health threat. Healthcare workers are on the front-line of the COVID-19 outbreak response and therefore at heightened risk of infection. There is a dearth of evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa about healthcare worker experiences in managing COVID-19.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLOS Glob Public Health
February 2023
Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
We carried out a qualitative study to gain a deeper understanding of the social context of the Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) and implications for implementation of clean cooking and similar interventions. Such initiatives are recognised as complex, power-laden processes, which has consequences for outcomes and uptake. However, understanding of how precarious livelihoods and unequal power differentials impact on trials of technology is limited and potentially hampers the achievement of the SDGs including SDG 7, Affordable and Clean Energy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLOS Glob Public Health
March 2023
Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Early infant diagnosis of HIV (EID-HIV) is key to reducing paediatric HIV mortality. Traditional approaches for diagnosing HIV in exposed infants are usually unable to optimally contribute to EID. Point-of-care testing such as Cepheid Xpert HIV-1 Qual assay-1 (XPertHIV) are available and could improve EID-HIV in resource constrained and high HIV burden contexts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLOS Glob Public Health
December 2022
Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Facility-based births have increased in low and middle-income countries, but babies still die due to poor care. Improving care leads to better newborn outcomes. However, data are lacking on how well facilities are prepared to support.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLOS Glob Public Health
August 2022
Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi.
Sepsis is a major global health problem, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Improving patient care requires that healthcare providers understand patients' priorities and provide quality care within the confines of the context they work. We report the perspectives of patients, caregivers and healthcare workers regarding care quality for patients admitted for sepsis to public hospitals in Uganda and Malawi.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLOS Glob Public Health
November 2022
Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Community-based screening for tuberculosis (TB) could improve detection but is resource intensive. We set out to evaluate the accuracy of computer-aided TB screening using digital chest X-ray (CXR) to determine if this approach met target product profiles (TPP) for community-based screening. CXR images from participants in the 2016 Kenya National TB Prevalence Survey were evaluated using CAD4TBv6 (Delft Imaging), giving a probabilistic score for pulmonary TB ranging from 0 (low probability) to 99 (high probability).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLOS Glob Public Health
October 2022
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Community HIV strategies are important for early diagnosis and treatment, with new self-care technologies expanding the types of services that can be led by communities. We evaluated mechanisms underlying the impact of community-led delivery of HIV self-testing (HIVST) using mediation analysis. We conducted a cluster-randomised trial allocating 30 group village heads and their catchment areas to the community-led HIVST intervention in addition to the standard of care (SOC) or the SOC alone.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLOS Glob Public Health
August 2022
Program in Social Research and Public Policy, Division of Social Science, New York University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Despite the urgent need for timely mortality data in low-income and lower-middle-income countries, mobile phone surveys rarely include questions about recent deaths. Such questions might a) be too sensitive, b) take too long to ask and/or c) generate unreliable data. We assessed the feasibility of mortality data collection using mobile phone surveys in Malawi.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLancet Glob Health
April 2023
Helse Nord TB Initiative, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi; TB Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Bloomsbury, London, UK.
Background: Clinical practice and diagnostic algorithms often assume that tuberculosis can be ruled out in mycobacteriology-negative individuals whose symptoms improve with a trial-of-antibiotics. We aimed to investigate diagnostic performance, clinical benefit, and antimicrobial resistance using a randomised controlled trial.
Methods: In this three-arm, individually randomised, open-label, controlled trial, we enrolled Malawian adults (aged ≥18 years) attending primary care who reported being unwell for at least 14 days (including cough) with no immediate indication for hospitalisation at Limbe and Ndirande Health Centres in Blantyre.
Wellcome Open Res
February 2023
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, LIVERPOOL, L3 5QA, UK.
Air pollution is a major environmental risk factor for cardiorespiratory disease. Exposures to household air pollution from cooking and other activities, are particularly high in Southern Africa. Following an extended period of participant observation in a village in Malawi, we aimed to assess individuals' exposures to fine particulate matter (PM ) and carbon monoxide (CO) and to investigate the different sources of exposure, including different cooking methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Patient Rep Outcomes
March 2023
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Objectives: The EuroQol Group has developed an extended version of the EQ-5D-Y-3L with five response levels for each of its five dimensions (EQ-5D-Y-5L). The psychometric performance has been reported in several studies for the EQ-5D-Y-3L but not for the EQ-5D-Y-5L. This study aimed to psychometrically evaluate the EQ-5D-Y-3L and EQ-5D-Y-5L Chichewa (Malawi) versions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTrials
March 2023
Emory University School of Medicine, 2015 Uppergate Dr, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Background: Clinical trial participants have a right to be informed throughout the entire process of human subject research. As part of this pillar of research ethics, participants and other stakeholders should be made aware of research findings after a trial has been completed. Though participants have both a right, and a desire to be informed of research outcomes, studies show that they rarely receive communication about study findings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Antimicrob Chemother
April 2023
Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi.
Background: There are limited data describing clinical flucytosine pharmacokinetics (PK). The variability of flucytosine partitioning into the CNS is not known. We described the interindividual variability in flucytosine PK in patients with HIV-associated cryptococcal meningoencephalitis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJBJS Case Connect
January 2023
Division of Orthopaedics, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Case: We present the case of a 14-year-old adolescent boy with a distal femoral osteosarcoma partially encasing the tibial nerve. He underwent rotationplasty with resection and coaptation (end-to-end repair) of the tibial nerve. By 1 year postoperatively, he had recovered sensation on the plantar aspect of his foot and Medical Research Council scale 4+/5 gastro-soleus contraction that powered extension of the new knee.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTrop Med Infect Dis
February 2023
Department of Tropical Disease Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK.
Microbiome
February 2023
Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Background: Long-term azithromycin (AZM) treatment reduces the frequency of acute respiratory exacerbation in children and adolescents with HIV-associated chronic lung disease (HCLD). However, the impact of this treatment on the respiratory bacteriome is unknown.
Method: African children with HCLD (defined as forced expiratory volume in 1 s z-score (FEV1z) less than - 1.
Int J Environ Res Public Health
January 2023
Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway.
Pervasive exposure to per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) shows associations with adverse pregnancy outcomes. The aim of the present study was to examine the determinants of different serum PFAS concentrations in late pregnancy and their relationship with birth outcomes in southern Malawi. The sample included 605 pregnant women with a mean age of 24.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Medical researchers in resource-constrained settings must make difficult moral decisions about the provision of ancillary care to participants where additional healthcare needs fall outside the scope of the research and are not provided for by the local healthcare system. We examined research stakeholder perceptions and experiences of ancillary care in biomedical research projects in Malawi.
Methods: We conducted 45 qualitative in-depth interviews with key research stakeholders: researchers, health officials, research ethics committee members, research participants and grants officers from international research funding organisations.
South Afr J HIV Med
December 2022
Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Background: Dolutegravir, a component of the preferred first-line antiretroviral therapy regimen, has been associated with increased weight gain. South Africa has a high prevalence of obesity, especially among women. Understanding dolutegravir exposure in patients with obesity is important for dose optimisation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMalar J
January 2023
Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK.
Background: To achieve malaria elimination it is essential to understand the impact of insecticide-treated net (ITNs) programmes. Here, the impact of ITN access and use on malaria prevalence in children in Malawi was investigated using Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS) data.
Methods: MIS data from 2012, 2014 and 2017 were used to investigate the relationship between malaria prevalence in children (6-59 months) and ITN use.
Nat Commun
January 2023
Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Division of Digestive Diseases, Hepatology section, Imperial College London, London, UK.
BMC Glob Public Health
November 2023
Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.