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40
Citations
6321
World Ranking
5387
National Ranking
41

Best Publications

  • A future for the world's children? A WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission

    Helen Clark;Awa Marie Coll-Seck;Anshu Banerjee;Stefan Peterson

  • Exclusive breastfeeding promotion by peer counsellors in sub-Saharan Africa (PROMISE-EBF) : a cluster-randomised trial

    Thorkild Tylleskär;Debra Jackson;Nicolas Meda;Ingunn Marie S Engebretsen

  • Effect of the HIV epidemic on infant feeding in South Africa: "When they see me coming with the tins they laugh at me".

    Tanya Doherty;Mickey Chopra;Lungiswa Nkonki;Debra Jackson

  • Eliminating mother-to-child HIV transmission in South Africa

    Peter Barron;Yogan Pillay;Tanya Doherty;Gayle Sherman

  • Preventing HIV Transmission to Children: Quality of Counselling of Mothers in South Africa

    Mickey Chopra;Tanya Doherty;Debra Jackson;Ann Ashworth

  • Effectiveness of the WHO/UNICEF guidelines on infant feeding for HIV-positive women: results from a prospective cohort study in South Africa.

    Tanya Doherty;Mickey Chopra;Debra Jackson;Ameena Goga

  • Improving the coverage of the PMTCT programme through a participatory quality improvement intervention in South Africa

    Tanya Doherty;Tanya Doherty;Mickey Chopra;Mickey Chopra;Duduzile Nsibande;Dudu Mngoma

  • Early cessation of breastfeeding amongst women in South Africa: an area needing urgent attention to improve child health

    Tanya Doherty;Tanya Doherty;David Sanders;Debra Jackson;Sonja Swanevelder

  • Operational effectiveness and 36 week HIV-free survival in the South African programme to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1.

    Debra J. Jackson;Mickey Chopra;Tanya M. Doherty;Mark S. E. Colvin

  • Setting research priorities for preconception care in low- and middle-income countries: Aiming to reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity

    Sohni Dean;Igor Rudan;Fernando Althabe;Aimee Webb Girard

  • Community-Based Situation Analysis of Maternal and Neonatal Care in South Africa to Explore Factors that Impact Utilization of Maternal Health Services

    Pulani Tlebere;Debra Jackson;Marian Loveday;Lyness Matizirofa

  • A Longitudinal Qualitative Study of Infant-Feeding Decision Making and Practices among HIV-Positive Women in South Africa

    Tanya Doherty;Mickey Chopra;Mickey Chopra;Mickey Chopra;Lungiswa Nkonki;Debra Jackson

  • Goodstart: a cluster randomised effectiveness trial of an integrated, community-based package for maternal and newborn care, with prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in a South African township.

    Mark Tomlinson;Tanya Doherty;Tanya Doherty;Petrida Ijumba;Petrida Ijumba;Debra Jackson;Debra Jackson

  • First population-level effectiveness evaluation of a national programme to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child, South Africa

    Ameena Ebrahim Goga;Ameena Ebrahim Goga;Thu-Ha Dinh;Debra J. Jackson;Debra J. Jackson;Carl Lombard;Carl Lombard

  • Missed opportunities along the prevention of mother-to-child transmission services cascade in South Africa : uptake, determinants, and attributable risk (the SAPMTCTE)

    Selamawit Woldesenbet;Debra Jackson;Carl Lombard;Thu-Ha Dinh

  • Effect of home based HIV counselling and testing intervention in rural South Africa: cluster randomised trial

    Tanya Doherty;Tanya Doherty;Hanani Tabana;Hanani Tabana;Debra Jackson;Reshma Naik

  • Linkage to care following a home-based HIV counselling and testing intervention in rural South Africa.

    Reshma Naik;Tanya Doherty;Tanya Doherty;Debra Jackson;Hanani Tabana;Hanani Tabana;Hanani Tabana

  • Infant feeding practices at routine PMTCT sites, South Africa: results of a prospective observational study amongst HIV exposed and unexposed infants - birth to 9 months.

    Ameena E Goga;Ameena E Goga;Tanya Doherty;Tanya Doherty;Debra J Jackson;David Sanders

  • Client characteristics and acceptability of a home-based HIV counselling and testing intervention in rural South Africa

    Reshma Naik;Reshma Naik;Hanani Tabana;Hanani Tabana;Tanya Doherty;Tanya Doherty;Wanga Zembe

  • Moving from vertical to integrated child health programmes: experiences from a multi-country assessment of the Child Health Days approach in Africa.

    Tanya Doherty;Mickey Chopra;Mark Tomlinson;Mark Tomlinson;Nicholas Oliphant

  • The Practical Approach to Care Kit (PACK) guide: developing a clinical decision support tool to simplify, standardise and strengthen primary healthcare delivery

    Ruth Cornick;Sandy Picken;Camilla Wattrus;Ajibola Awotiwon

  • Effect of the HIV epidemic on infant feeding in South Africa

    Tanya Doherty;Mickey Chopra;Lungiswa Nkonki;Debra Jackson

  • The role of 'hidden' community volunteers in community-based health service delivery platforms: examples from sub-Saharan Africa.

    Natalie Leon;David Sanders;Wim Van Damme;Donela Besada

Frequent Co-Authors

David Sanders
David Sanders University of the Western Cape
Mickey Chopra
Mickey Chopra World Bank
Joy E Lawn
Joy E Lawn London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Mark Tomlinson
Mark Tomlinson Queen's University Belfast
Igor Rudan
Igor Rudan University of Edinburgh
Anna Thorson
Anna Thorson Karolinska Institute
Catherine Mathews
Catherine Mathews South African Medical Research Council
Simon Lewin
Simon Lewin South African Medical Research Council
Wim Van Damme
Wim Van Damme Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Fadi El-Jardali
Fadi El-Jardali American University of Beirut

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