Mercy Muwema

Datos Biográficos

ID8936646
NOMBREMercy Muwema
NOMBRESMercy
APELLIDOMuwema
FIRMAMUWEMA M
AFILIACIONESMakerere University
ORCID0000-0001-9181-3055
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS2
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR2
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2023
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H0

  • Village health team-delivered oral HIV self-testing increases linkage-to-care and antiretroviral-therapy initiation among men in Uganda

    Joanita Nangendo, Fred C Semitala et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2024

    Targeted strategies are central to increasing HIV-status awareness and progress on the care cascade among men. We implemented Village-Health-Team (VHT)-delivered HIV self-testing (HIVST) among men in a peri-urban Ugandan district and assessed linkage to confirmatory-testing, antiretroviral-therapy (ART) initiation and HIV-status disclosure following HIVST. We conducted a prospective cohort study from November 2018 to June 2019 and enrolled 1628 m…

  • Uptake and perceptions of oral HIV self-testing delivered by village health teams among men in Central Uganda

    Open AccessJoanita Nangendo, Anne R Katahoire et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends HIV self-testing (HIVST) to increase access to and utilization of HIV services among underserved populations. We assessed the uptake and perceptions of oral HIVST delivered by Village Health Teams (VHTs) among men in a peri-urban district in Central Uganda. We used a concurrent parallel mixed methods study design and analyzed data from 1628 men enrolled in a prospective cohort in Mpigi district, Cent…