Godfrey Biemba

Biographic Data

ID1731965
NAMEGodfrey Biemba
GIVEN NAMESGodfrey
FAMILY NAMEBiemba
SIGNATUREBIEMBA G
AFFILIATIONSZambia National Public Health Institute
ORCID0000-0002-6064-6722
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of health care waste management among Zambian health care workers

    Open AccessColleen M Leonard, Chipwaila Choolwe Chunga et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Poor management of health care waste poses a serious threat to the health of health care workers, patients and communities. In developing countries, adequate health care waste management (HCWM) is often a challenge. To address this, the Zambian Health Services Improvement Project with HCWM as a component, was implemented in five Zambian provinces (Luapula, Muchinga, Northern, North-Western and Western Provinces), under which this cross-sectional …

  • Priority setting and equity in Covid-19 pandemic plans

    Open AccessLydia Kapiriri, Suzanne N Kiwanuka et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2022

    Priority setting represents an even bigger challenge during public health emergencies than routine times. This is because such emergencies compete with routine programmes for the available health resources, strain health systems and shift health-care attention and resources towards containing the spread of the epidemic and treating those that fall seriously ill. This paper is part of a larger global study, the aim of which is to evaluate the degr…

  • Priority setting during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessIestyn Williams, Beverley M Essue et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    Development of vaccines is a major breakthrough in the fight against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Much attention has been paid to how to prioritise between patient groups for vaccination and how to ensure equity, especially in low-income countries, but there are other important decisions that need to be made. These decisions include: (a) choosing between the various vaccines that will become available, (b) continuing to invest in other aspects of the CO…

  • If we build it, will they come? Results of a quasi-experimental study assessing the impact of maternity waiting homes on facility-based childbirth and maternity care in Zambia

    Open AccessNancy Scott, Jeanette L Kaiser et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: Maternity waiting homes (MWHs) aim to increase access to maternity and emergency obstetric care by allowing women to stay near a health centre before delivery. An improved MWH model was developed with community input and included infrastructure, policies and linkages to health centres. We hypothesised this MWH model would increase health facility delivery among remote-living women in Zambia. METHODS: We conducted a quasi-experimenta…

  • Impact of mobile health-enhanced supportive supervision and supply chain management on appropriate integrated community case management of malaria, diarrhoea, and pneumonia in children 2-59 months

    Open AccessGodfrey Biemba, Boniface Chiluba et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2020

    BACKGROUND: Despite progress made over the past twenty years, child mortality remains high, with 5.3 million children under five years having died in 2018 globally. Pneumonia, diarrhoea, and malaria remain among the commonest causes of under-five mortality; contributing 15%, 8%, and 5% of global mortality respectively. Recent evidence shows that integrated community case management (iCCM) of pneumonia, diarrhoea, and malaria can reduce under-five…

  • Facilitators and Barriers to Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy and Retention in Care Among Adolescents Living with HIV/Aids in Zambia

    Open AccessAldina Mešić, Nafisa Halim et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2019

  • How a woman's interpersonal relationships can delay care-seeking and access during the maternity period in rural Zambia

    Open AccessJeanette L Kaiser, Rachel M Fong et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2019Cited by: 3References: 36

    To reduce maternal mortality, countries must continue to seek ways to increase access to skilled care during pregnancy and delivery. In Zambia, while antenatal attendance is high, many barriers exist that prevent women from delivering with a skilled health provider. This study explores how the individuals closest to a pregnant woman in rural Zambia can influence a woman's decision to seek and her ability to access timely maternity care. At four r…

  • The impact of a multi-level maternal health programme on facility delivery and capacity for emergency obstetric care in Zambia

    Open AccessElizabeth G Henry, Donald M Thea et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2017

    In 2012, Saving Mothers, Giving Life (SMGL), a multi-level health systems initiative, launched in Kalomo District, Zambia, to address persistent challenges in reducing maternal mortality. We assessed the impact of the programme from 2012 to 2013 using a quasi-experimental study with both household- and health facility-level data collected before and after implementation in both intervention and comparison areas. A total of 21,680 women and 75 non…

  • We are also dying like any other people, we are also people

    Open AccessMarjolein Dieleman, Godfrey Biemba et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2007Cited by: 1

    In countries with a high AIDS prevalence, the health workforce is affected by AIDS in several ways. In Zambia, which has a prevalence rate of 16.5%, a study was carried out in 2004 with the aim to: explore the impact of HIV/AIDS on health workers, describe their coping mechanisms and recommend supportive measures. The qualitative study was complemented by a survey using self-administered questionnaires in four selected health facilities in two ru…