Melchiade Ruberintwari

ORCID: 0000-0001-6069-0312
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Research Areas
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing

Mali-Folkecenter
2023

Despite progress in improving antiretroviral therapy (ART) for people with HIV Malawi, the burden of infections and treatment outcomes among key populations is suboptimal. Client-centered differentiated service delivery approaches may facilitate addressing prevention needs Malawi.De-identified program data routinely collected as part LINKAGES project-Malawi were assembled from October 2017 to September 2019. case finding was compared across different testing modalities each population....

10.1093/ofid/ofac038 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2022-03-07

Background: Restrictions on public gatherings and movement to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 may have disrupted access availability HIV services in Malawi. We quantified impact these restrictions testing Malawi.Methods: conducted an interrupted time series analysis routine aggregated programme data from 808 private, adult paediatric health facilities across rural urban communities Malawi between January 2018 March 2020 (pre-restrictions) April December (post restrictions), with as month...

10.2989/16085906.2023.2197883 article EN cc-by African Journal of AIDS Research 2023-04-03

Men who have sex with men (MSM) are a key group for HIV interventions in Malawi considering their high prevalence (17.5% compared to 8.4% among the general population). The use of oral preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) presents new opportunity MSM be protected. We present findings from qualitative assessment designed assess awareness and willingness barriers using PrEP Malawi.The 3 main objectives this were determine: (1) PrEP, (2) factors that influence (3) potential adherence order guide...

10.2196/26177 article EN cc-by JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 2021-07-06

<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Men who have sex with men (MSM) are a key group for HIV interventions in Malawi considering their high prevalence (17.5% compared to 8.4% among the general population). The use of oral preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) presents new opportunity MSM be protected. We present findings from qualitative assessment designed assess awareness and willingness barriers using PrEP Malawi. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> 3 main objectives this were determine: (1) PrEP, (2)...

10.2196/preprints.26177 preprint EN 2020-12-11
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