Charles B Holmes

Biographic Data

ID7730258
NAMECharles B Holmes
GIVEN NAMESCharles B
FAMILY NAMEHolmes
SIGNATUREHOLMES C B
AFFILIATIONSGeorgetown University
ORCID0000-0002-7924-6761
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Strengthening district health systems to achieve Malawi’s decentralisation objectives

    Open AccessBetha O Igbinosun, Gift Kawalazira et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    The Alma-Ata ‘Health for All’ Declaration of 1978 emphasised community participation in health systems and the need to ‘bring health care as close as possible to where people live and work’. Since then, decentralised approaches that leverage the proximity of local governments to their populations have emerged as the preferred model for health systems over fully centralised structures. The district health system, particularly in low- and middle-in…

  • Advancing global health access through market shaping

    Open AccessClaire Wagner, Claire M Wagner et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    New health products have contributed to major improvements in public health, but many clinically effective interventions still face delays in reaching low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Market shaping approaches have emerged as a set of tools designed to address such access gaps by influencing prices, supply, and demand. Drawing on practitioner experience and illustrative cases, this paper examines how market shaping mechanisms have been u…

  • A health systems approach to more effective decentralised HIV prevention

    Open AccessGift Kawalazira, Yohane Kamgwira et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    Achieving global targets to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030 and beyond requires enhanced health system capacity for HIV prevention at national and subnational levels. Specifically, this system’s capacity must enable countries to reach high-risk populations effectively, systematically engage communities to generate demand for HIV prevention services, build diverse delivery channels to meet this demand and address struct…

  • A controlled study to assess the effects of a Fast Track (FT) service delivery model among stable HIV patients in Lusaka Zambia

    Open AccessCarolyn Bolton‐Moore, Jake M Pry et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Fast Track models—in which patients coming to facility to pick up medications minimize waiting times through foregoing clinical review and collecting pre-packaged medications—present a potential strategy to reduce the burden of treatment. We examine effects of a Fast Track model (FT) in a real-world clinical HIV treatment program on retention to care comparing two clinics initiating FT care to five similar (in size and health care level), standar…

  • HIV care experiences and health priorities during the first wave of Covid-19

    Open AccessNjekwa Mukamba, Anjali Sharma et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Clients' HIV care and health priorities during the first wave of COVID-19 in Lusaka province were varied with a combination of positive and negative experiences that occurred especially at health system and individual levels, while at household level, the experiences were all negative. More research is needed to understand how patients practice resiliency in the widespread context of socio-economic instability. Governments and patients must work …

  • Patients’ Satisfaction with HIV Care Providers in Public Health Facilities in Lusaka

    Open AccessNjekwa Mukamba, Obvious Nchimunya Chilyabanyama et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2019

    Prognosis among those who are HIV infected has improved but long-term retention is challenging. Health systems may benefit from routinely measuring patient satisfaction which is a potential driver of engagement in HIV care, but it is not often measured in Africa, and Zambia in particular. This study aims to internally validate a patient satisfaction tool, assess satisfaction among patients previously lost-to-follow up (LTFU) from HIV care in Lusa…

  • Awareness and management of elevated blood pressure among human immunodeficiency virus–infected adults receiving antiretroviral therapy in urban Zambia

    Open AccessSophie Bauer, Mwanza Wa Mwanza et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2017

    The prevalence of high blood pressure (HBP) and hypertension (HTN), awareness of the diagnoses, and use of anti-hypertensive drugs were examined among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Zambia's capital Lusaka. Within a prospective cohort based at two public sector ART clinics, BP was measured at ART initiation and every 6 months thereafter as a routine clinic procedure. Predictors of HBP (s…

  • Towards an improved investment approach for an effective response to HIV/Aids

    Open AccessBernhard Schwartländer, John Stover et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2011