Mahesh Swaminathan

Biographic Data

ID7039679
NAMEMahesh Swaminathan
GIVEN NAMESMahesh
FAMILY NAMESwaminathan
SIGNATURESWAMINATHAN M
AFFILIATIONSCenters for Disease Control and Prevention
ORCID0000-0001-5827-3245
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Correlates of Alcohol Use and Hazardous Alcohol Consumption Among Adults Living with HIV in Tanzania

    Open AccessDamian J Damian, Abbas Ismail et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2026

  • Seroprevalence of Sars-CoV-2 in Tanzania

    Open AccessSayoki Mfinanga, Sayoki Godfrey Mfinanga et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2026

    Between August and October 2021, before the Omicron wave and before COVID-19 vaccines became widely available in Tanzania, two studies estimated that half of the population in Zanzibar and Mwanza in Tanzania had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. From May 2020 to Dec 2021, Tanzania adopted a very different COVID-19 mitigation strategy with no lockdowns or quarantines and limited community-level COVID-19 testing. We conducted population-based SARS-CoV-2 serop…

  • Factors associated with unawareness of HIV-positive status among individuals aged ≥ 15 years in Tanzania

    Open AccessDamian J Damian, Stephano Cosmas et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2026

    Despite robust HIV case-finding interventions in Tanzania, 1 in 6 PLHIV were unaware of their HIV-positive status. Targeted HIV case-finding interventions should continue with a focus on reaching men and young people who were more likely to be unaware of their status. HIV prevention strategies, such as condom use, remain crucial, since individual behaviors were linked to awareness of HIV status

  • Field validation and application of the luminex triplex HIV assay to estimate HIV prevalence and HIV-1 incidence in Nigeria

    Open AccessErnest L Yufenyuy, Olusola Anuoluwapo Akanbi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    HIV cross-sectional surveys require multi-layered testing with several tests to estimate HIV prevalence and HIV-1 incidence. We evaluated the performance and accuracy of the newly developed HIV Triplex assay to diagnose HIV-1 and HIV-2 and detect HIV-1 recent infections using plasma samples from the 2018 Nigeria AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey (NAIIS). Plasma samples from consenting HIV-positive (n=2,773) and a subset of HIV-negative samples (n=…

  • Tanzania’s first Marburg Viral Disease outbreak response

    Open AccessAlly Hussein, Rogath Kishimba et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Viral Haemorrhagic Fever Outbreak presents a significant public health threat, requiring a timely, robust, and well-coordinated response. This paper aims to describe the roles of the Tanzania Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (TFELTP) graduates and residents in responding to Tanzania’s first Marburg Viral Disease (MVD) outbreak. We performed a secondary data analysis using a range of documents, such as rosters of deployed respond…

  • Social network strategy (SNS) for HIV testing

    Open AccessOscar Ernest Rwabiyago, Allen Katale et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2024

    Social network strategy (SNS) testing uses network connections to refer individuals at high risk to HIV testing services (HTS). In Tanzania, SNS testing is offered in communities and health facilities. In communities, SNS testing targets key and vulnerable populations (KVP), while in health facilities it complements index testing by reaching unelicited index contacts. Routine data were used to assess performance and trends over time in PEPFAR-sup…

  • Evaluation of the Nigeria national HIV rapid testing algorithm

    Open AccessNnaemeka C Iriemenam, Augustine Mpamugo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) diagnosis remains the gateway to HIV care and treatment. However, due to changes in HIV prevalence and testing coverage across different geopolitical zones, it is crucial to evaluate the national HIV testing algorithm as false positivity due to low prevalence could be detrimental to both the client and the service delivery. Therefore, we evaluated the performance of the national HIV rapid testing algorithm using…

  • Performance of HIV rapid testing algorithm in Nigeria

    Open AccessHetal K Patel, Sunday Ikpe et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Background The Nigeria AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey (NAIIS), a cross-sectional household survey, was conducted in 2018 with primary objectives to estimate HIV prevalence, HIV-1 incidence, and status of UNAIDS 90-90-90 cascade. We conducted retrospective analysis of the performance of HIV rapid tests and the national HIV testing algorithm used in Nigeria. Methods The national algorithm included Determine HIV-1/2 as test 1 (T1), Unigold HIV-1/2…

  • Nigeria’s public health response to the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessChioma Dan-Nwafor, Chinwe Lucia Ochu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2020

    The novel coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19, which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome \nvirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) [1] was first reported in December 2019 by Chinese Health Authorities following an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown origin in Wuhan, Hubei Province [2,3]. SARS-CoV-2 is \nlikely of zoonotic origin, similar to SARS and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and transmitted between humans through respiratory droplets and fomit…

  • Prevalence of Rape and Client-Initiated Gender-Based Violence Among Female Sex Workers

    Open AccessAmee Schwitters, Mahesh Swaminathan et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2014