Koleka Mlisana

Biographic Data

ID7581327
NAMEKoleka Mlisana
GIVEN NAMESKoleka
FAMILY NAMEMlisana
SIGNATUREMLISANA K
AFFILIATIONSNational Health Laboratory Service
ORCID0000-0002-8436-3268
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Record linkage without patient identifiers

    Open AccessKhumbo Shumba, Joep Bor et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Linkage between health databases typically requires patient identifiers such as names and personal identification numbers. We developed and validated a record linkage strategy to combine administrative health databases without identifiers for South Africa’s public sector HIV program. We linked CD4 counts and HIV viral loads from South Africa’s TIER.Net with the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) database for patients receiving care between…

  • Task sharing for point-of-care testing

    Open AccessZibusiso Ndlovu, Mariamo Ibraimo Assane et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    World Health Organization recommends task sharing (TS) for point-of-care testing (POCT) with lay health workers (LHW) to improve access when professional capacity is limited. Despite many benefits of POCT, TS remains underutilized. This study examined uptake of TS for POCT in national policies and the implementation landscape in 19 African countries from November 2024 to March 2025. A mixed-methods approach included an online cross-sectional surv…

  • Assessing compliance with national guidelines in diabetes care

    Open AccessAlana T Brennan, Emma M Kileel et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Diabetes is a major global health issue. We evaluated compliance to laboratory-based management guidelines for diabetes (type 1 and 2), essential for effective treatment and reducing diabetes-related morbidity and mortality. Our study utilized South Africa’s National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) data, focusing on patients from birth to age 80 years who underwent initial diabetes laboratory testing between January 1, 2012-January 1, 2016. Pat…

  • The fall—And rise—In hospital-based care for people with HIV in South Africa

    Open AccessEvelyn Lauren, Khumbo Shumba et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    ART scale-up has reduced HIV mortality in South Africa. However, less is known about trends in hospital-based HIV care, which is costly and may indicate HIV-related morbidity. We assessed trends in hospital-based HIV care using the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) National HIV Cohort. Our study included all adults ≥18 years receiving care in South Africa’s public sector HIV program from 2004 to 2017 with at least one CD4 count/viral load…

  • The role of emergent champions in policy implementation for decentralised drug-resistant tuberculosis care in South Africa

    Open AccessSacha Roxanne Le Roux, Waasila Jassat et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    OBJECTIVE: Champions are recognised as important to driving organisational change in healthcare quality improvement initiatives in high-income settings. In low-income and middle-income countries with a high disease burden and constrained human resources, their role is highly relevant yet understudied. Within a broader study on policy implementation for decentralised drug-resistant tuberculosis care in South Africa, we characterised the role, stra…

  • Covid-19

    Open AccessDevanand Moonasar, Anban Pillay et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    On 5 March 2020, South Africa recorded its first case of imported COVID-19. Since then, cases in South Africa have increased exponentially with significant community transmission. A multisectoral approach to containing and mitigating the spread of SARS-CoV-2 was instituted, led by the South African National Department of Health. A National COVID-19 Command Council was established to take government-wide decisions. An adapted World Health Organisz…

  • We had to manage what we had on hand, in whatever way we could’

    Open AccessKarina Kielmann, Lindy Dickson-Hall et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    In 2011, the South African National TB Programme launched a policy of decentralized management of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in order to expand the capacity of facilities to treat patients with DR-TB, minimize delays to access care and improve patient outcomes. This policy directive was implemented to varying degrees within a rapidly evolving diagnostic and treatment landscape for DR-TB, placing new demands on already-stressed health sys…

  • Risk Factors for HIV Acquisition in High Risk Women in a Generalised Epidemic Setting

    Open AccessNivashnee Naicker, Ayesha B M Kharsany et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2015

  • Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy on Health-Related Quality of Life among South African Women in the Caprisa 002 Acute Infection Study

    Open AccessAndrew Tomita, Nigel Garrett et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2014

  • Health-Related Quality of Life Dynamics of HIV-positive South African Women up to ART Initiation

    Open AccessAndrew Tomita, Nigel Garrett et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2013

  • Effectiveness and Safety of Tenofovir Gel, an Antiretroviral Microbicide, for the Prevention of HIV Infection in Women

    Open AccessQuarraisha Abdool Karim, Salim S Abdool Karim et al.ARTICLEScience2010

    Vaginal Gel Versus HIV HIV prevention technologies for women are urgently needed, especially in sub-Saharan Africa where young women bear the greatest burden of the HIV epidemic. Abdool Karim et al. (p. 1168 ; published online 19 July) present the results of the CAPRISA 004 randomized control trial. The nearly 3-year-long trial, conducted in urban and rural South African women, tested the efficacy of a vaginal gel containing the antiretroviral dr…