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Anna Dow is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 17 publications. Previous affiliations of Anna Dow include Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme.
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Papers
Neurologic and neurodevelopmental manifestations of pediatric HIV/AIDS: a global perspective.
TL;DR: The literature on pediatric neuroAIDS was reviewed and gaps in the current knowledge were identified, finding that Neurotropic HIV-1 likely develops distinct genotypic characteristics in response to this unique environment.
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Implementing early infant diagnosis of HIV infection at the primary care level: experiences and challenges in Malawi
Queen Dube,Anna Dow,Chawanangwa Chirambo,Jill F. Lebov,Lyson Tenthani,Michael Moore,Robert S. Heyderman,Annelies Van Rie +7 more
TL;DR: Diagnostic tools with higher PPV and point-of-care capacity and better infrastructures for administering ART are needed to improve the management of HIV-exposed and HIV-infected infants.
Central nervous system compartmentalization of HIV-1 subtype C variants early and late in infection in young children.
Christa Buckheit Sturdevant,Anna Dow,Cassandra B. Jabara,Sarah B. Joseph,Gretja Schnell,Nobutoki Takamune,Macpherson Mallewa,Robert S. Heyderman,Annelies Van Rie,Ronald Swanstrom +9 more
TL;DR: Two pathways to compartmentalization are hypothesized: early stochastic sequestration in the CNS of one of multiple variants transmitted from mother to child, and emergence of compartmentalized variants later in infection, on average at age 13.5 months, and becoming fully apparent in the CSF by age 18 months.
“They Have Already Thrown Away Their Chicken”: barriers affecting participation by HIV-infected women in care and treatment programs for their infants in Blantyre, Malawi
TL;DR: Five important themes emerged: lack of knowledge regarding EID and infant ART, the perception of health care workers as authority figures, fear of disclosure of own and/or child's HIV status, lack of psychosocial support, and intent to shorten the life of the child.
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Prevalence, risk factors and risk perception of tuberculosis infection among medical students and healthcare workers in Johannesburg, South Africa
TL;DR: Assessment of the prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection among highly exposed HCWs and low-exposed medical students in Johannesburg, South Africa concluded that infection control strategies and occupational screening programmes for professional and lay HCWs, as well as medical students, should be implemented in all high-burden settings.