Nathan Ford

Datos Biográficos

ID3700499
NOMBRENathan Ford
NOMBRESNathan
APELLIDOFord
FIRMAFORD N
AFILIACIONESMédecins Sans Frontières
ORCID0000-0001-8752-9078
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS36
TOTAL DE CITAS20
TOTAL COMO AUTOR36
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2002
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Ensuring effective transitions in care for hospitalized people living with HIV

    Open AccessAjay Rangaraj, Nathan Ford et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    Recent changes in the global health financing resulted in a steep reduction in donor support for HIV programmes worldwide, threatening years of progress in reducing infections and mortality. These developments require existing HIV programmes to rethink their priorities. Advanced HIV disease (AHD) is a condition present in approximately 30% of people living with HIV (PLHIV) presenting to HIV care programmes worldwide. These individuals are defined…

  • Aligning action across major infectious diseases in a dynamic global health landscape

    Open AccessNathan Ford, Tereza Kasaeva et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    In July 2025, WHO merged its Department of HIV, Viral Hepatitis and STIs with the Global Programme on Tuberculosis and Lung Health, creating a new structure -the Department of HIV, TB, Hepatitis and STIs.Although this decision was driven by unprecedented financial shortfalls, there is a strong underlying rationale, creating opportunities to identify synergies and efficiencies without losing the gains made in recent years.HIV, TB, Hepatitis and ST…

  • Evolution of WHO Covid-19 mask guidelines amid intense demands for rapid advice

    Open AccessNathan Ford, Hannah Hamilton Hurwitz et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    During a health emergency, there is an urgent need to rapidly develop guidelines that meet minimum quality standards, as exemplified by the development of WHO guidelines on mask use in health care and community settings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Between January 2020 and October 2023, WHO developed 21 guideline updates on the use of masks as part of infection prevention and control (IPC) practices. Guideline developers had to deal with an ever…

  • Use of indirect evidence from HIV self-testing to inform the WHO hepatitis C self-testing recommendation

    Open AccessVirginia A Fonner, N Luhmann et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

  • Interventions to reduce deaths in people living with HIV admitted to hospital in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessRachael M Burke, Hussein H Twabi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    People living with HIV (PLHIV) admitted to hospital have a high risk of death. We systematically appraised evidence for interventions to reduce mortality among hospitalised PLHIV in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Using a broad search strategy with terms for HIV, hospitals, and clinical trials, we searched for reports published between 1 Jan 2003 and 23 August 2021. Studies of interventions among adult HIV positive inpatients in LMICs w…

  • Child mortality associated with maternal HIV status

    Open AccessEric Remera, Frédérique Chammartin et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: Child mortality remains highest in regions of the world most affected by HIV/AIDS. The aim of this study was to assess child mortality rates in relation to maternal HIV status from 2005 to 2015, the period of rapid HIV treatment scale-up in Rwanda. METHODS: We used data from the 2005, 2010 and 2015 Rwanda Demographic Health Surveys to derive under-2 mortality rates by survey year and mother's HIV status and to build a multivariable …

  • Health policy and system support to optimise community health worker programmes

    Open AccessGiorgio Cometto, Nathan Ford et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Global Health2018

    Optimising community health worker (CHW) programmes requires evidence-based policies on their education, deployment, and management. This guideline aims to inform efforts by planners, policy makers, and managers to improve CHW programmes as part of an integrated approach to strengthen primary health care and health systems. The development of this guideline followed the standard WHO approach to developing global guidelines. We conducted one overv…

  • Provision and continuation of antiretroviral therapy during acute conflict

    Open AccessCecilia Ferreyra, D O’brien et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2018

    This experience provides further evidence that provision of HIV treatment and emergency drug stocks can be successfully provided to most patients in both conflict-affected settings

  • Reimagining HIV service delivery

    Open AccessAnna Grimsrud, Helen Bygrave et al.ARTICLEJournal of the International AIDS…2016

    The recently updated World Health Organization (WHO) consolidated guidelines on the use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) recommending to “treat all” mark a paradigm shift in the delivery of HIV treatment: from who is eligible and when to start ART, to how to provide client-centred and high-quality care to all people living with HIV (PLHIV). As part of this shift, the new guidance includes service delivery recommendations based on a “differentiated…

  • Patient-Reported Barriers to Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy

    Open AccessZara Shubber, Edward J Mills et al.ARTICLEPLoS Medicine2016

  • Act local, think global

    Open AccessAnthony Harries, Anthony D Harries et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2016

    The scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Malawi was based on a public health approach adapted to its resource-poor setting, with principles and practices borrowed from the successful tuberculosis control framework. From 2004 to 2015, the number of new patients started on ART increased from about 3000 to over 820,000. Despite being a small country, Malawi has made a significant contribution to the 15 million people globally on ART and has a…

  • Ten priorities for expanding access to HCV treatment for people who inject drugs in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessNathan Ford, Stefan Wiktor et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2015

  • Role and outcomes of community health workers in HIV care in sub‐Saharan Africa

    Open AccessGrace W Mwai, Gitau Mburu et al.ARTICLEJournal of the International AIDS…2013

  • Towards Universal Voluntary HIV Testing and Counselling

    Open AccessAmitabh B Suthar, Nathan Ford et al.ARTICLEPLoS Medicine2013

  • Provision of antiretroviral care to displaced populations in humanitarian settings

    Karolina Griffiths, Nathan FordARTICLEMedicine Conflict & Survival2013

  • Risk factors, barriers and facilitators for linkage to antiretroviral therapy care

    Darshini Govindasamy, Nathan Ford et al.ARTICLEAIDS2012

    OBJECTIVE: To characterize patient and programmatic factors associated with retention in care during the pre-antiretroviral therapy (ART) period and linkage to ART care. DESIGN: Systematic literature review. METHODS: An electronic search was conducted on MEDLINE, Global Health, Google Scholar and conference databases to identify studies reporting on predictors, barriers and facilitators of retention in care in the pre-ART period, and linkage to c…

  • Priorities for developing countries in the global response to non-communicable diseases

    Open AccessDermot Maher, Nathan Ford et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2012

    The growing global burden of non communicable diseases (NCDs) is now killing 36 million people each year and needs urgent and comprehensive action. This article provides an overview of key critical issues that need to be resolved to ensure that recent political commitments are translated into practical action. These include: (i) categorizing and prioritizing NCDs in order to inform donor funding commitments and priorities for intervention; (ii) f…

  • The first decade of antiretroviral therapy in Africa

    Open AccessNathan Ford, Alexandra Calmy et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2011

    The past decade has seen remarkable progress in increasing access to antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings. Early concerns about the cost and complexity of treatment were overcome thanks to the efforts of a global coalition of health providers, activists, academics, and people living with HIV/AIDS, who argued that every effort must be made to ensure access to essential care when millions of lives depended on it. The high cost of tre…

  • Providing surgical care in Somalia

    Open AccessKathryn Chu, Nathan Ford et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2011

    The delivery of surgical care in any conflict-settings is difficult, but in situations where international support is limited, the challenges are more extreme. In this model, task shifting, or the provision of services by less trained cadres, was utilized and peri-operative mortality remained low demonstrating that safe surgical practices can be accomplished even without the presence of fully trained surgeon and anesthesiologists. If security imp…

  • A systematic review of task- shifting for HIV treatment and care in Africa

    Open AccessMike Callaghan, Nathan Ford et al.ARTICLEHuman Resources for Health2010

  • When to start antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings

    Open AccessNathan Ford, Alexandra Calmy et al.ARTICLEBMC International Health and…2010

    BACKGROUND: Recent evidence from developed and developing countries shows clear clinical and public health benefit to starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) earlier. While discussions about when to start ART have often focused on the clinical risks and benefits, the main issue is one of fair limit-setting. We applied a human rights framework to assess a policy of early treatment initiation according to the following criteria: public-health purpose…

  • Surgical care for the direct and indirect victims of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

    Open AccessKathryn Chu, Philippe Havet et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2010

    In this study, most surgical interventions were unrelated to violent trauma and rather reflected the general surgical needs of a low-income tropical country. Programs in conflict zones in low-income countries need to be prepared to treat both the war-wounded and non-trauma related life-threatening surgical needs of the general population. Given the limited surgical workforce in these areas, training of local staff and task shifting is recommended…

  • Task shifting in HIV/Aids

    Rony Zachariah, Nathan Ford et al.ARTICLETransactions of the Royal Society…2009

    Sub-Saharan Africa is facing a crisis in human health resources due to a critical shortage of health workers. The shortage is compounded by a high burden of infectious diseases; emigration of trained professionals; difficult working conditions and low motivation. In particular, the burden of HIV/AIDS has led to the concept of task shifting being increasingly promoted as a way of rapidly expanding human resource capacity. This refers to the delega…

  • An integrated approach of community health worker support for HIV/Aids and TB care in Angónia district, Mozambique

    Open AccessSandrine Simon, Kathryn Chu et al.ARTICLEBMC International Health and…2009

    BACKGROUND: The need to scale up treatment for HIV/AIDS has led to a revival in community health workers to help alleviate the health human resource crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. Community health workers have been employed in Mozambique since the 1970s, performing disparate and fragmented activities, with mixed results. METHODS: A participant-observer description of the evolution of community health worker support to the health services in Angóni…

  • Mortality, violence and access to care in two districts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti

    Open AccessFrédérique Ponsar, Nathan Ford et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2009

    Extrapolating to the total population of these two districts some 2,000 violent deaths occurred over the recall period. Among the survivors, violence had lasting effects in terms of physical and mental health and loss of property and possessions