Mark Urassa

Overview

Best Publications

• Lockdown measures in response to COVID-19 in nine sub-Saharan African countries.

  Najmul Haider;Abdinasir Yusuf Osman;Audrey Gadzekpo;George O. Akipede

  414
  Citations

• Secretive Females or Swaggering Males? An Assessment of the Quality of Sexual Partnership Reporting in Rural Tanzania

  Soori Nnko;J. Ties Boerma;Mark Urassa;Gabriel M. Mwaluko

  321
  Citations

• Parent-child communication about sexual and reproductive health in rural Tanzania: Implications for young people's sexual health interventions

  Joyce Wamoyi;Joyce Wamoyi;Angela Fenwick;Mark Urassa;Basia Zaba

  289
  Citations

• The impact of HIV/AIDS on mortality and household mobility in rural Tanzania.

  Mark Urassa;J. Ties Boerma;Raphael Isingo;Juliana Ngalula

  229
  Citations

• Barriers to Accessing Antiretroviral Therapy in Kisesa, Tanzania: A Qualitative Study of Early Rural Referrals to the National Program.

  Gerry Hillary Mshana;Joyce Wamoyi;Joanna Busza;Basia Zaba

  228
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• “Women’s Bodies are Shops”: Beliefs About Transactional Sex and Implications for Understanding Gender Power and HIV Prevention in Tanzania

  Joyce Wamoyi;Angela Fenwick;Mark Urassa;Basia Zaba;Basia Zaba

  215
  Citations

• Barriers to sustaining antiretroviral treatment in Kisesa, Tanzania: a follow-up study to understand attrition from the antiretroviral program.

  Maria Roura;Joanna Busza;Alison Wringe;Doris Mbata

  210
  Citations

• Scaling up stigma? The effects of antiretroviral roll-out on stigma and HIV testing. Early evidence from rural Tanzania.

  Maria Roura;Mark Urassa;Joanna Busza;Doris Mbata

  201
  Citations

• Sociodemographic context of the AIDS epidemic in a rural area in Tanzania with a focus on people's mobility and marriage

  J T Boerma;M Urassa;S Nnko;J Ng'weshemi

  185
  Citations

• HIV and mortality of mothers and children: evidence from cohort studies in Uganda, Tanzania, and Malawi.

  Basia Zaba;Jimmy Whitworth;Milly Marston;Jessica Nakiyingi

  174
  Citations

• Trends in HIV and sexual behaviour in a longitudinal study in a rural population in Tanzania, 1994-2000.

  Mwaluko G;Urassa M;Isingo R;Zaba B

  162
  Citations

• Using vignettes in qualitative research to explore barriers and facilitating factors to the uptake of prevention of mother-to-child transmission services in rural Tanzania: a critical analysis

  Annabelle Gourlay;Gerry Mshana;Isolde Birdthistle;Grace Bulugu

  154
  Citations

• Uptake of HIV voluntary counselling and testing services in rural Tanzania: implications for effective HIV prevention and equitable access to treatment.

  Alison Wringe;Raphael Isingo;Mark Urassa;Griter Maiseli

  153
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• Orphanhood child fostering and the AIDS epidemic in rural Tanzania.

  Mark Urassa;J. Ties Boerma;Japheth Z. L Ng'weshemi;Raphael Isingo

  152
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• Spread of HIV infection in a rural area of Tanzania.

  Boerma Jt;Urassa M;Senkoro K;Klokke A

  150
  Citations

• Mortality trends in the era of antiretroviral therapy: evidence from the Network for Analysing Longitudinal Population based HIV/AIDS data on Africa (ALPHA).

  Georgesa Reniers;Emma Slaymaker;Jessica Nakiyingi-Miiro;Constance Nyamukapa

  144
  Citations

• Mobility and HIV in Tanzanian couples: both mobile persons and their partners show increased risk.

  Coleman Kishamawe;Debby C. J. Vissers;Mark Urassa;Raphael Isingo

  140
  Citations

• Understanding the uneven spread of HIV within Africa: comparative study of biologic, behavioral, and contextual factors in rural populations in Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

  J. Ties Boerma;Simon Gregson;Constance Nyamukapa;Mark Urassa

  136
  Citations

• "It is like that, we didn't understand each other": exploring the influence of patient-provider interactions on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV service use in rural Tanzania.

  Annabelle Gourlay;Alison Wringe;Isolde Birdthistle;Gerry Mshana

  130
  Citations

• From HIV diagnosis to treatment: evaluation of a referral system to promote and monitor access to antiretroviral therapy in rural Tanzania

  Ray Nsigaye;Alison Wringe;Maria Roura;Samuel Kalluvya

  117
  Citations

• Dynamics of male circumcision practices in northwest Tanzania.

  Soori Nnko;Robert Washija;Mark Urassa;J. Boerma

  113
  Citations