Browsing by Author "Doherty, Tanya"
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Addressing the tensions and complexities involved in commissioning and undertaking implementation research in low- and middle-income countries
Doherty, Tanya; Lewin, Simon; Kinney, Mary; Sanders, David; Mathews, Cathy; Daviaud, Emmanuelle; Goga, Ameena; Bhana, Arvin; Besada, Donela; Vanleeuw, Lieve; Loveday, Marian; Odendaal, Willem; Leon, Natalie (BMJ, 2018)Rapid scale-up of new policies and guidelines, in the context of weak health systems in low/middle-income countries (LMIC), has led to greater interest and funding for implementation research. Implementation research ... -
Allergy and infant feeding guidelines in the context of resource-constrained settings
Levin, Michael; Goga, Ameena; Doherty, Tanya; Coovadia, Hoosen; Sanders, David; Green, Robin J.; Kling, Sharon (American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, 2016)Recent discussions about the need for revised infant feeding guidelines in the context of allergy are founded in substantial evidence-based research. Key studies (Table I)1-5 undertaken in high-income country settings ... -
Approaches and strategies used in the training and supervision of Health Extension Workers (HEWs) delivering integrated community case management (iCCM) of childhood illness in Ethiopia: a qualitative rapid appraisal
Nsibande, Duduzile; Loveday, Marian; Daniels, Karen; Sanders, David; Doherty, Tanya; Zembe, Wanga (Makerere University Medical School (Uganda), 2018)BACKGROUND: Globally, preventable and treatable childhood conditions such as pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, malnutrition and newborn conditions still account for 75% of under-five mortality. To reduce the mortality rate ... -
An assessment of quality of home-based HIV counseling and testing performed by lay counselors in a rural sub-district of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Magasana, Vuyolwethu; Zembe, Wanga; Tabana, Hanani; Naik, Reshma; Jackson, Debra; Swanevelder, Sonja; Doherty, Tanya (Taylor & Francis Open, 2016)HIV counseling and testing (HCT) has been prioritized as one of the prevention strategies for HIV/AIDS, and promoted as an essential tool in scaling up and improving access to treatment, care and support especially in ... -
Assessment of the uptake of neonatal and young infant referrals by community health workers to public health facilities in an urban informal settlement, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Nsibande, Duduzile; Doherty, Tanya; Ijumba, Petrida; Tomlinson, Mark; Jackson, Debra; Sanders, David; Lawn, Joy (Biomed CentralBiomed Central, 2013)Background: Globally, 40% of the 7.6 million deaths of children under five every year occur in the neonatal period (first 28 days after birth). Increased and earlier recognition of illness facilitated by community health ... -
Child mortality in South Africa: Is the Sustainable Development Goal (3.2) target achievable with current efforts?
Doherty, Tanya; Kroon, Max; Rhoda, Natasha; Sanders, David (Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG), 2018)The two articles by Bamford et al.[1,2] in the recent SAMJ Maternal and Child Health Supplement present trends in inpatient case fatality rates for diarrhoeal disease, pneumonia and severe acute malnutrition (SAM), and ... -
Child Support Grant access and receipt among 12-week-old infants in an urban township setting in South Africa
Zembe-Mkabile, Wanga; Doherty, Tanya; Sanders, David; Jackson, Debra (Co-Action Publishing, 2014)BACKGROUND: Cash transfers (CTs) are increasingly used as a strategy to alleviate poverty and improve child health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. The Child Support Grant (CSG) is the largest CT programme ... -
Comparing a paper based monitoring and evaluation system to a mHealth system to support the national community health worker programme, South Africa: an evaluation
Neupane, Sunisha; Odendaal, Willem; Friedman, Irwin; Jassat, Waasila; Schneider, Helen; Doherty, Tanya (BioMed Central, 2014)BACKGROUND: In an attempt to address a complex disease burden, including improving progress towards MDGs 4 and 5, South Africa recently introduced a re-engineered Primary Health Care (PHC) strategy, which has led to ... -
Correction to: Effects of early feeding on growth velocity and overweight/obesity in a cohort of HIV unexposed South African infants and children
Ramokolo, Vundli; Lombard, Carl; Chhagan, Meera; Engebretsen, Ingunn M.S.; Doherty, Tanya; Goga, Ameena; Fadnes, Lars Thore; Zembe, Wanga; Jackson, Debra; Van den Broeck, Jan (BioMed Central, 2017)After publication of this article [1] it was brought to our attention that there were errors in the text under the heading ‘Data cleaning’, and in Table 3. The corrected text and updated Table 3 are given in this erratum. -
Correction: Maternity protection entitlements for non-standard workers in low-and-middle-income countries and potential implications for breastfeeding practices: a scoping review of research since 2000 (international breastfeeding journal, (2023), 18, 1, (9), 10.1186/s13006-023-00542-8)
Pereira-Kotze, Catherine; Feeley, Alison; Doherty, Tanya; Faber, Mieke (BioMed Central Ltd, 2023)Background: Following publication of the original article [1], it came to the authors' attention that the references and citations from reference 25 onwards were incorrectly numbered: (the former) reference 25 had no ... -
A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a Home- Based HIV Counselling and Testing Intervention versus the Standard (Facility Based) HIV Testing Strategy in Rural South Africa
Tabana, Hanani; Nkonki, Lungiswa; Hongoro, Charles; Doherty, Tanya (PLOS ONE, 2015)Introduction There is growing evidence concerning the acceptability and feasibility of home-based HIV testing. However, less is known about the cost-effectiveness of the approach yet it is a critical component to guide ... -
Costs of implementing integrated community case management (iCCM) in six African countries: implications for sustainability
Daviaud, Emmanuelle; Besada, Donela; Leon, Natalie; Rohde, Sarah; Sanders, David; Oliphant, Nicholas; Doherty, Tanya (Edinburgh University Global Health Society, 2017)BACKGROUND Sub–Saharan Africa still reports the highest rates of under– five mortality. Low cost, high impact interventions exist, however poor access remains a challenge. Integrated community case management (iCCM) was ... -
Does peer-navigated linkage to care work? A cross-sectional study of active linkage to care within an integrated non-communicable disease-HIV testing centre for adults in Soweto, South Africa
Doherty, Tanya; Hopkins, Kathryn L.; Hlongwane, Khuthadzo E. (Public Library of Science, 2020)South Africa is the HIV epidemic epicentre; however, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) will be the most common cause of death by 2030. To improve identification and initiation of care for HIV and NCDs, we assessed proportion ... -
Effect of home based HIV counselling and testing intervention in rural South Africa: cluster randomised trial
Doherty, Tanya; Tabana, Hanani; Jackson, Debra; Naik, Reshma; Zembe, Wanga; Lombard, Carl; Swanevelder, Sonja; Fox, Matthew P.; Thorson, Anna; Ekström, Anna Mia; Chopra, Mickey (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2013)OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of home based HIV counselling and testing on the prevalence of HIV testing and reported behavioural changes in a rural subdistrict of South Africa. DESIGN: Cluster randomised controlled ... -
Effects of early feeding on growth velocity and overweight/obesity in a cohort of HIV unexposed South African infants and children
Ramokolo, Vundli; Lombard, Carl; Chhagan, Meera; Engebretsen, Ingunn M.S.; Doherty, Tanya; Jackson, Debra (BioMed Central, 2015)BACKGROUND: South Africa has the highest prevalence of overweight/obesity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Assessing the effect of modifiable factors such as early infant feeding on growth velocity and overweight/obesity is therefore ... -
Eliminating mother to child HIV transmission in South Africa
Barron, Peter; Pillay, Yogan; Jackson, Debra; Doherty, Tanya; Sherman, Gail; Bhardwaj, Sanjana; Robinson, Precious; Goga, Ameena (World Health Organization (WHO), 2013)PROBLEM: The World Health Organization has produced clear guidelines for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). However, ensuring that all PMTCT programme components ... -
Exclusive breastfeeding promotion by peer counsellors in sub-Saharan Africa (PROMISE-EBF): a cluster-randomised trial
Tylleskar, Thorkild; Jackson, Debra; Meda, Nicolas; Ingrebetsen, Ingunn Marie S; Chopra, Mickey; Diallo, Abdoulaye Hama; Doherty, Tanya; Ekström, Eva-Charlotte; Fadnes, Lars Thore; Goga, Ameena; Kankasa, Chipepo; Klungsøyr, Jørn I; Lombard, Carl; Nankabirwa, Victoria; Nankunda, Jolly K; Van de Perre, Philippe; Sanders, David; Shanmugam, Rebecca; Sommerfelt, Halvor; Wamani, Henry; Tumwine, James K; PROMISE-EBF Study Group (Elsevier, 2011)Background: Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is reported to be a life-saving intervention in low-income settings. The effect of breastfeeding counselling by peer counsellors was assessed in Africa. Methods:24 communities ... -
“If donors woke up tomorrow and said we can't fund you, what would we do?” A health system dynamics analysis of implementation of PMTCT option B+ in Uganda.
Doherty, Tanya; Besada, Donela; Goga, Ameena; Daviaud, Emmanuelle; Rohde, Sarah; Raphaely, Nika (BioMed Central, 2017)BACKGROUND: In October 2012 Uganda extended its prevention of mother to child HIV transmission (PMTCT) policy to Option B+, providing lifelong antiretroviral treatment for HIV positive pregnant and breastfeeding women. ... -
Improving the coverage of the PMTCT programme through a participatory quality improvement intervention in South Africa
Doherty, Tanya; Chopra, Mickey; Nsibande, Duduzile (BMC, 2009)Despite several years of implementation, prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programmes in many resource poor settings are failing to reach the majority of HIV positive women. We report on a data driven ... -
In utero art exposure and birth and early growth outcomes among HIV-exposed uninfected infants attending immunization services: Results from national pmtct surveillance, South Africa
Ramokolo, Vundli; Goga, Ameena E.; Doherty, Tanya (Oxford University Press, 2017). Despite the recognized benefit of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for preventing and treating HIV, some studies have reported adverse birth outcomes with in utero ART exposure. We evaluated the effect of infant in utero ...