Published in BMC Health Serv Res on January 05, 2012
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Using gender analysis to build voluntary counselling and testing responses in Kenya. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (2005) 1.45
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Practicing provider-initiated HIV testing in high prevalence settings: consent concerns and missed preventive opportunities. BMC Health Serv Res (2011) 1.38
Factors associated with HIV testing among public sector clinic attendees in Johannesburg, South Africa. AIDS Behav (2008) 1.34
Antenatal clinic-based HIV prevalence in Zambia: declining trends but sharp local contrasts in young women. Trop Med Int Health (2006) 1.33
Declining HIV prevalence among young pregnant women in Lusaka, Zambia. Bull World Health Organ (2008) 1.26
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"It is not an easy decision on HIV, especially in Zambia": opting for silence, limited disclosure and implicit understanding to retain a wider identity. AIDS Care (2010) 1.11
Desire for, and uptake of HIV tests by Ghanaian women: the relevance of community level stigma. J Community Health (2011) 1.07
Mental distress in the general population in Zambia: impact of HIV and social factors. BMC Public Health (2009) 1.05
The complexity of consent: women's experiences testing for HIV at an antenatal clinic in Durban, South Africa. AIDS Care (2010) 1.02
An assessment of factors contributing to treatment adherence and knowledge of TB transmission among patients on TB treatment. BMC Public Health (2004) 3.28
Home-based voluntary HIV counselling and testing found highly acceptable and to reduce inequalities. BMC Public Health (2010) 1.96
HIV and infant feeding counselling: challenges faced by nurse-counsellors in northern Tanzania. Hum Resour Health (2007) 1.94
Marked HIV prevalence declines in higher educated young people: evidence from population-based surveys (1995-2003) in Zambia. AIDS (2006) 1.78
Accountable priority setting for trust in health systems--the need for research into a new approach for strengthening sustainable health action in developing countries. Health Res Policy Syst (2009) 1.61
Sustained high prevalence of sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers in Cambodia: high turnover seriously challenges the 100% Condom Use Programme. BMC Infect Dis (2008) 1.49
"When the obvious brother is not there": political and cultural contexts of the orphan challenge in northern Uganda. Soc Sci Med (2005) 1.47
The decentralisation-centralisation dilemma: recruitment and distribution of health workers in remote districts of Tanzania. BMC Int Health Hum Rights (2009) 1.46
Steep HIV prevalence declines among young people in selected Zambian communities: population-based observations (1995-2003). BMC Public Health (2006) 1.45
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Perceived unfairness in working conditions: the case of public health services in Tanzania. BMC Health Serv Res (2011) 1.44
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Antenatal clinic-based HIV prevalence in Zambia: declining trends but sharp local contrasts in young women. Trop Med Int Health (2006) 1.33
'The divorce program': gendered experiences of HIV positive mothers enrolled in PMTCT programs - the case of rural Malawi. Int Breastfeed J (2010) 1.30
HIV-related risk behaviors in Cambodia and effects of mobility. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2006) 1.28
Prevalence and correlates of concurrent sexual partnerships in Zambia. AIDS Behav (2008) 1.26
HIV risk behaviours and determinants among people living with HIV/AIDS in Vietnam. AIDS Behav (2008) 1.26
Associations between sexual behaviour change in young people and decline in HIV prevalence in Zambia. BMC Public Health (2007) 1.21
The silent HIV epidemic among pregnant women within rural Northern Tanzania. BMC Public Health (2006) 1.16
Antenatal clinic HIV data found to underestimate actual prevalence declines: evidence from Zambia. Trop Med Int Health (2008) 1.12
Gender roles and informal care for patients with AIDS: a qualitative study from an urban area in Tanzania. J Transcult Nurs (2008) 1.11
'Born before arrival': user and provider perspectives on health facility childbirths in Kapiri Mposhi district, Zambia. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2014) 1.10
Why do health workers in rural Tanzania prefer public sector employment? BMC Health Serv Res (2012) 1.08
Decline in HIV prevalence among young women in Zambia: national-level estimates of trends mask geographical and socio-demographic differences. PLoS One (2012) 1.08
Factors affecting voluntary HIV counselling and testing among men in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional survey. BMC Public Health (2012) 1.08
Reducing uncertainties in global HIV prevalence estimates: the case of Zambia. BMC Public Health (2006) 1.06
Mental distress in the general population in Zambia: impact of HIV and social factors. BMC Public Health (2009) 1.05
Declining syphilis trends in concurrence with HIV declines among pregnant women in Zambia: observations over 14 years of national surveillance. Sex Transm Dis (2012) 1.05
Persisting stigma reduces the utilisation of HIV-related care and support services in Viet Nam. BMC Health Serv Res (2012) 1.04
HIV-1, HSV-2 and syphilis among pregnant women in a rural area of Tanzania: prevalence and risk factors. BMC Infect Dis (2008) 1.02
A critical assessment of the WHO responsiveness tool: lessons from voluntary HIV testing and counselling services in Kenya. BMC Health Serv Res (2009) 1.01
The context of HIV risk behaviours among HIV-positive injection drug users in Viet Nam: moving toward effective harm reduction. BMC Public Health (2009) 0.99
Factors associated with health facility childbirth in districts of Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia: a population based survey. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2014) 0.97
High potential of escalating HIV transmission in a low prevalence setting in rural Tanzania. BMC Public Health (2007) 0.97
Health status and socio-economic factors associated with health facility utilization in rural and urban areas in Zambia. BMC Health Serv Res (2012) 0.96
Evaluating two adjustment methods to extrapolate HIV prevalence from pregnant women to the general female population in sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS (2003) 0.96
Risk factors, healthcare-seeking and sexual behaviour among patients with genital ulcers in Zambia. BMC Public Health (2012) 0.95
Challenges to fair decision-making processes in the context of health care services: a qualitative assessment from Tanzania. Int J Equity Health (2012) 0.94
Improving ability to identify malaria and correctly use chloroquine in children at household level in Nakonde District, Northern Province of Zambia. Malar J (2003) 0.94
A qualitative study to identify community structures for management of severe malaria: a basis for introducing rectal artesunate in the under five years children in Nakonde District of Zambia. BMC Public Health (2005) 0.94
Increased fairness in priority setting processes within the health sector: the case of Kapiri-Mposhi District, Zambia. BMC Health Serv Res (2014) 0.93
Lost opportunities in HIV prevention: programmes miss places where exposures are highest. BMC Public Health (2008) 0.93
Breastfeeding and HIV: experiences from a decade of prevention of postnatal HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa. Int Breastfeed J (2010) 0.92
The impact of HIV infection on adult mortality in some communities in Zambia: a cohort study. Trop Med Int Health (2008) 0.92
Distribution of HIV in Cambodia: findings from the first national population survey. AIDS (2009) 0.91
The seven Cs of the high acceptability of home-based VCT: results from a mixed methods approach in Zambia. Soc Sci Med (2013) 0.89
Targeting condom distribution at high risk places increases condom utilization-evidence from an intervention study in Livingstone, Zambia. BMC Public Health (2012) 0.89
Local problems; local solutions: an innovative approach to investigating and addressing causes of maternal deaths in Zambia's Copperbelt. Reprod Health (2011) 0.89
Negotiating credibility: first-time mothers' experiences of contact with the labour ward before hospitalisation. Midwifery (2009) 0.89
HIV risk behavior and work in Uganda: a cross-sectional study. East Afr J Public Health (2008) 0.89
Silently waiting to heal: experiences among women living with urinary incontinence in northwest Ethiopia. Int Urogynecol J (2012) 0.88
Assessing performance enhancing tools: experiences with the open performance review and appraisal system (OPRAS) and expectations towards payment for performance (P4P) in the public health sector in Tanzania. Global Health (2012) 0.88
Comparative validity of screening instruments for mental distress in zambia. Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health (2010) 0.87
Effects of neighbourhood-level educational attainment on HIV prevalence among young women in Zambia. BMC Public Health (2009) 0.87
The accountability for reasonableness approach to guide priority setting in health systems within limited resources--findings from action research at district level in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia. Health Res Policy Syst (2014) 0.86
Stakeholders' participation in planning and priority setting in the context of a decentralised health care system: the case of prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV programme in Tanzania. BMC Health Serv Res (2013) 0.85
Five myths about the HIV epidemic in Asia. PLoS Med (2006) 0.85
Condom availability in high risk places and condom use: a study at district level in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. BMC Public Health (2012) 0.84
Pelvic floor disorders among women in Dabat district, northwest Ethiopia: a pilot study. Int Urogynecol J (2012) 0.84
'Stay home for as long as possible': midwives' priorities and strategies in communicating with first-time mothers in early labour. Midwifery (2011) 0.83
Poisonous milk and sinful mothers: the changing meaning of breastfeeding in the wake of the HIV epidemic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Int Breastfeed J (2010) 0.83
Impact of a community sexually transmitted infection/HIV intervention project on female sex workers in five border provinces of Vietnam. Sex Transm Infect (2007) 0.83
Community action for preventing HIV in Cambodia: evaluation of a 3-year project. Health Policy Plan (2008) 0.82
Changes in restorative caries treatment in 15-year-olds in Oslo, Norway, 1979-1996. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol (2003) 0.82
Decline in sexual risk behaviours among young people in Zambia (2000-2009): do neighbourhood contextual effects play a role? PLoS One (2013) 0.81
Rethinking nursing care: an ethnographic approach to nurse-patient interaction in the context of a HIV prevention programme in rural Tanzania. Int J Nurs Stud (2012) 0.80
Ways ahead: protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in the context of HIV. Int Breastfeed J (2010) 0.80
The Finnmark Intervention Study: do community-based intervention programmes threaten self-rated health and well-being? Experiences from Båtsfjord, a fishing village in North Norway. Eur J Public Health (2005) 0.76
Conceptual models for mental distress among HIV-infected and uninfected individuals: a contribution to clinical practice and research in primary-health-care centers in Zambia. BMC Health Serv Res (2011) 0.76
Changes in STI services following a community based STI-intervention project in Cambodia. Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health (2008) 0.75
'The waiting mode': first-time mothers' experiences of waiting for labour onset. Sex Reprod Healthc (2010) 0.75
Reflections on female circumcision discourse in Hargeysa, Somaliland: purified or mutilated? Afr J Reprod Health (2014) 0.75