Nicola Desmond
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
97 Papers
447 Citations
Nicola Desmond is an academic researcher from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Population. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 80 publications. Previous affiliations of Nicola Desmond include University of Glasgow & Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme.
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Papers
Uptake, accuracy, safety, and linkage into care over two years of promoting annual self-testing for HIV in Blantyre, Malawi : a community-based prospective study
Augustine T. Choko,Peter MacPherson,Emily L. Webb,Barbara Willey,Helena Feasy,Rodrick Sambakunsi,Aaron Mdolo,Simon D Makombe,Nicola Desmond,Richard J. Hayes,Hendramoorthy Maheswaran,Elizabeth L. Corbett +11 more
TL;DR: Community-based HIVST achieved high coverage in two successive years and was safe, accurate, and acceptable, suggesting proactive HIVST strategies, supported and monitored by communities, could substantially complement existing approaches to providing early HIV diagnosis and periodic repeat testing to adolescents and adults in high-HIV settings.
A typology of groups at risk of HIV/STI in a gold mining town in north-western Tanzania.
Nicola Desmond,C. Allen,Simon Clift,Butolwa Justine,Joseph Mzugu,Mary L. Plummer,Mary L. Plummer,Mary L. Plummer,Deborah Watson-Jones,Deborah Watson-Jones,David Ross,David Ross,David Ross +12 more
TL;DR: Qualitative research was conducted in a small town adjacent to a large-scale commercial gold mine in north-western Tanzania to identify populations at high risk of HIV and suggest suitable behavioural interventions by gaining an understanding of sexual behaviour patterns in the town.
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Factors Shaping Initial Decision-Making to Self-test Amongst Cohabiting Couples in Urban Blantyre, Malawi
Moses Kumwenda,Moses Kumwenda,Alister Munthali,Mackwellings Phiri,Daniel Mwale,Tore Jarl Gutteberg,Eleanor E MacPherson,Sally Theobald,Liz Corbett,Nicola Desmond,Nicola Desmond +10 more
TL;DR: For women, long-term health and togetherness were important goals that reinforced motivations for couples testing, whereas men often needed persuasion despite finding HIVST more flexible and less onerous than facility-based testing.
Barriers and facilitators to linkage to ART in primary care: a qualitative study of patients and providers in Blantyre, Malawi.
Peter MacPherson,Peter MacPherson,Eleanor E MacPherson,Eleanor E MacPherson,Daniel Mwale,Stephen Bertel Squire,Simon D Makombe,Elizabeth L. Corbett,Elizabeth L. Corbett,David G. Lalloo,Nicola Desmond,Nicola Desmond +11 more
TL;DR: Linkage from HIV testing and counselling to initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) is suboptimal in many national programmes in sub‐Saharan Africa, leading to delayed initiation of ART and increased risk of death.
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Exploring social harms during distribution of HIV self-testing kits using mixed-methods approaches in Malawi.
Moses Kumwenda,Moses Kumwenda,Cheryl Johnson,Cheryl Johnson,Augustine T. Choko,Augustine T. Choko,Wezzie Lora,Wezzie Lora,Wakumanya Sibande,Doreen Sakala,Pitchaya P. Indravudh,Pitchaya P. Indravudh,Richard Chilongosi,Rachael C Baggaley,Rose Nyirenda,Miriam Taegtmeyer,Karin Hatzold,Nicola Desmond,Nicola Desmond,Elizabeth L. Corbett,Elizabeth L. Corbett +20 more
TL;DR: This work describes social harms reported during HIVST implementation in Malawi, and proposes a framework for grading and responding to harms, according to their severity, in order to optimize individual and public health benefits.
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