Marguerite Massinga Loembe

Datos Biográficos

ID9065962
NOMBREMarguerite Massinga Loembe
NOMBRESMarguerite Massinga
APELLIDOLoembe
FIRMALOEMBE M M
AFILIACIONESAlbert Schweitzer Hospital
ORCID0000-0002-7822-566X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS8
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR3
TOTAL COMO EDITOR5
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2013
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • 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…

  • Comparing patterns of recent and remote Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection determined using the QuantiFeron-TB Gold Plus assay in a high TB burden setting

    Open AccessModupe Amofa-Sekyi, Ab Schaap et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    One quarter of the world’s population is estimated to be infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Identifying recent TB infection (TBI) offers an avenue to targeted TB preventative therapy provision, and prevention to disease progression. However, detecting recent TBI remains challenging. The QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus assay (QFT-Plus) claims to have improved sensitivity in detecting recent TBI, by the addition of the TB2 antigen tube to the TB1 t…

  • Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and policy response on access to and utilization of reproductive, maternal, child and adolescent health services in Kenya, Uganda and Zambia

    Open AccessShiphrah Kuria, Sarah Karanja et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Global health crises can negatively impact access to and utilisation of essential health services. Access to and utilisation of reproductive health services were already challenged in Sub-Saharan Africa with the COVID-19 pandemic further complicating the critical situation. This cross-sectional qualitative study aimed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and policy responses to it on the access to, and utilization of reproductive, matern…

  • Burden of tuberculosis in underserved populations in South Africa

    Open AccessLydia M L Holtgrewe, Ann Johnson et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

  • The National Covid-19 Epi Model (NCEM)

    Open AccessSheetal Silal, Juliet R C Pulliam et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    In March 2020 the South African COVID-19 Modelling Consortium was formed to support government planning for COVID-19 cases and related healthcare. Models were developed jointly by local disease modelling groups to estimate cases, resource needs and deaths due to COVID-19. The National COVID-19 Epi Model (NCEM) while initially developed as a deterministic compartmental model of SARS-Cov-2 transmission in the nine provinces of South Africa, was ada…

  • Implementation of genomic surveillance of Sars-CoV-2 in the Caribbean

    Open AccessNikita S D Sahadeo, Soren Nicholls et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of global genomic surveillance to monitor the emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants and inform public health decision-making. Until December 2020 there was minimal capacity for viral genomic surveillance in most Caribbean countries. To overcome this constraint, the COVID-19: Infectious disease Molecular epidemiology for PAthogen Control & Tracking (COVID-19 IMPACT) project was implemented to …

  • Bacterial versus non-bacterial infections

    Open AccessCamille Escadafal, Steffen Geis et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    Acute febrile illness (AFI) is one of the most common reasons for seeking medical care in low-income and middle-income countries. Bacterial infections account for a relatively small proportion of AFIs; however, in the absence of a simple diagnostic test to guide clinical decisions, healthcare professionals often presume that a non-malarial febrile illness is bacterial in origin, potentially resulting in inappropriate antibiotic use. An accurate d…

  • Sexual behaviour after antiretroviral therapy initiation in female sex workers and HIV-positive patients from the general population, Cotonou, Benin

    Souleymane Diabaté, Annie Chamberland et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2013

    From September 2008 to December 2011, we enrolled and followed-up 247 HIV-negative, 88 untreated and 32 treated HIV-positive female sex workers (FSWs), as well as 238 untreated and 115 treated HIV-positive patients from the general population (GP) of Cotonou, Benin. We wanted to assess the effect of antiretroviral therapy (ART) on sexual risk-taking in FSWs and patients from the GP. We used multivariate log binomial regression models for repeated…