Tiwonge Mtande
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
15 Papers
3 Citations
Tiwonge Mtande is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Research ethics. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 11 publications.
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Understanding factors, outcomes and reasons for loss to follow-up among women in Option B+ PMTCT programme in Lilongwe, Malawi.
Hannock Tweya,Salem Gugsa,Mina C. Hosseinipour,Colin Speight,Wingston Ng’ambi,Mphatso Bokosi,Janet Chikonda,Annie Chauma,Patricia Khomani,Malocho Phoso,Tiwonge Mtande,Sam Phiri +11 more
TL;DR: To assess factors, outcomes and reasons for loss to follow-up (LTFU) among pregnant and breastfeeding women initiated on a lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) for PMTCT in a large antenatal clinic in Malawi, a cohort study is conducted.
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Recruiting male partners for couple HIV testing and counselling in Malawi's option B+ programme: an unblinded randomised controlled trial
Nora E. Rosenberg,Tiwonge Mtande,Friday Saidi,Christopher C. Stanley,Edward Jere,Lusubiro Paile,Kondwani Kumwenda,Innocent Mofolo,Wingston Ng’ambi,William C. Miller,Irving F. Hoffman,Mina C. Hosseinipour +11 more
TL;DR: An invitation plus tracing strategy was highly effective at increasing CHTC uptake and could have many substantial benefits if brought to scale.
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Supporting Option B+ scale up and strengthening the prevention of mother-to-child transmission cascade in central Malawi: results from a serial cross-sectional study
Michael E Herce,Tiwonge Mtande,Frank Chimbwandira,Innocent Mofolo,Christine Chingondole,Nora E. Rosenberg,Kathy E. Lancaster,Esmie Kamanga,Jacqueline Chinkonde,Wiza Kumwenda,Gerald Tegha,Mina C. Hosseinipour,Irving F. Hoffman,Francis Martinson,Eva Stein,Charles van der Horst +15 more
TL;DR: STF interventions, integrated within the MoH Option B+ program, achieved favorable HTC, maternal ART, infant prophylaxis, and EID services uptake, and a low proportion of infants found HIV-infected at first DNA PCR testing.
Assessing Option B+ retention and infant follow-up in Lilongwe, Malawi.
Blake M. Hauser,William C. Miller,Hannock Tweya,Colin Speight,Tiwonge Mtande,Sam Phiri,Sam Phiri,L M Ball,Mina C. Hosseinipour,Irving F. Hoffman,Nora E. Rosenberg +10 more
TL;DR: Women lost at earlier continuum stages, who are at higher risk for mother-to-child-transmission, were less likely to bring infants for testing and many women did not remain in care or bring their infant for testing.
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Women's Views About a Paternal Consent Requirement for Biomedical Research in Pregnancy.
Kristen Sullivan,Maggie Little,Nora E. Rosenberg,Tiwonge Mtande,Chifundo Zimba,Elana Jaffe,Jean Anderson,Jenell S. Coleman,Sappho Z. Gilbert,Marielle S. Gross Wolf,Irving F. Hoffman,Lisa Rahangdale,Ruth R. Faden,Anne Drapkin Lyerly +13 more
TL;DR: Views both supporting and against a paternal consent requirement for pregnant women’s participation in trials offering the prospect of direct benefit solely to the fetus were surveyed, expanding the range of considerations that should inform approaches to paternal involvement in research with pregnant women.
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