Ashraf Grimwood

Biographic Data

ID6578047
NAMEAshraf Grimwood
GIVEN NAMESAshraf
FAMILY NAMEGrimwood
SIGNATUREGRIMWOOD A
AFFILIATIONSKheth’Impilo
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • Benefits and challenges of community‐based multi‐month dispensing of antiretroviral treatment in Zimbabwe

    Open AccessStefani Du Toit, Michael Marlow et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2022References: 1

    Sub-Saharan Africa carries the highest burden of HIV, with approximately 70% of all people living with HIV (PLWH) globally living in this region. The provision of antiretroviral treatment (ART) significantly affects already overburdened health systems, which need to accommodate large volumes of ART patients while facing a shortage of professional health workers, infrastructure challenges and medical resources. Finding alternative ways to provide …

  • We need other men to stand up and start the journey’ engaging men as HIV community health workers - a gender transformative approach

    Lesley Gittings, Ashraf GrimwoodARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2021

    The HIV epidemic is strongly gendered. Women and girls are more likely to contract HIV for biological and social reasons in Sub-Saharan Africa and men living with HIV are more likely to be lost to follow-up and die on antiretroviral therapy (ART) than women. Care work is also gendered, with women shouldering the burden of HIV care-related work. This paper considers the potential of male delivered community health work to improve men's HIV-related…

  • Effectiveness of community-based support for pregnant women living with HIV

    Open AccessGeoffrey Fatti, Najma Shaikh et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2016

    Antiretroviral treatment (ART) initiation in HIV-infected pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains inadequate, and there is a severe shortage of professional healthcare workers in the region. The effectiveness of community support programmes for HIV-infected pregnant women and their infants in SSA is unclear. This study compared initiation of maternal antiretrovirals and infant outcomes amongst HIV-infected pregnant women and their infa…

  • Children and HIV – a hop (hopefully), a skip (lamentably) and a jump (ideally)

    Open AccessMarie-Louise Newell, Ashraf Grimwood et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2016

  • Improved long-term antiretroviral treatment outcomes amongst patients receiving community-based adherence support in South Africa

    Geoffrey Fatti, Eula Mothibi et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2016

    Retaining high levels of patients in care who are virally suppressed over long treatment periods has been an important challenge for antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes in sub-Saharan Africa, the region having the highest HIV burden globally. Clinic-linked community-based adherence support (CBAS) programmes provide home-based adherence and psychosocial support for ART patients. However, there is little evidence of their longer-term impact. …

  • Improved virological suppression in children on antiretroviral treatment receiving community-based adherence support

    Geoffrey Fatti, Najma Shaikh et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2014

    Adherence to antiretroviral treatment (ART) is a challenge in childhood, and children on ART have reduced virological suppression compared to adults. This study evaluated the effect of community-based adherence support (CBAS) on virological outcomes amongst children receiving ART in four South African provinces. Patient Advocates are lay CBAS workers who provide adherence and psychosocial support for patients, undertaking home visits to address h…

  • An evaluation of the impact of a community-based adherence support programme on ART outcomes in selected government HIV treatment sites in South Africa

    Jude Igumbor, J O Igumbor et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2011

    This study assessed the impact of a community-based adherence support service on the outcomes of patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART). The evaluation was a retrospective study based on patient clinical records. This study noted that a significantly higher proportion of patients with a community-based adherence supporter (also known as a patient advocate, PA) had viral load (VL) of less than 400 copies/ml at six months of treatment (70%, p=0.0…

  • Denying Aids

    Ashraf GrimwoodARTICLEAIDS Care2010

    "Denying AIDS: conspiracy theories, pseudoscience and human tragedy." AIDS Care, 22(11), pp. 1436–1437