Maia Lesosky

Biographic Data

ID7016223
NAMEMaia Lesosky
GIVEN NAMESMaia
FAMILY NAMELesosky
SIGNATURELESOSKY M
AFFILIATIONSLiverpool School of Tropical Medicine
ORCID0000-0002-2026-958X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Self-reported Covid-19 severity among persons with tuberculosis infection in western Kenya, 2021

    Open AccessHellen C Barsosio, Brian Tangara et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Whilst a quarter of the world’s population is estimated to be infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis , it is unknown whether TB infection (TBI) increases the risk of severe COVID-19, which is relevant in TB-endemic settings, especially where HIV co-infection is also common. A convenience cohort of symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID-19 patients aged 8–80 years in western Kenya was followed daily for 14 days to assess disease progression using th…

  • Attractive targeted sugar baits for malaria control in western Kenya (ATSB-Kenya) – Effect of ATSBs on epidemiologic and entomologic indicators

    Open AccessCaroline Ogwang, Aaron M Samuels et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Attractive targeted sugar baits (ATSBs) are a novel malaria control tool designed to target mosquitoes outdoors. We conducted a cluster-randomised trial to evaluate the impact of ATSBs on malaria indicators in Kenya. Seventy clusters (≥100 households/cluster) in Siaya county were randomly assigned (1:1) to intervention or control. Pyrethroid-only long-lasting insecticidal nets were distributed to all clusters, aiming for universal coverage. Two A…

  • Screening for post-TB lung disease at TB treatment completion

    Open AccessJamilah Meghji, Vester Gunsaru et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Pulmonary TB survivors face a high burden of post-TB lung disease (PTLD) after TB treatment completion. In this secondary data analysis we investigate the performance of parameters measured at TB treatment completion in predicting morbidity over the subsequent year, to inform programmatic approaches to PTLD screening in low-resource settings. Cohort data from urban Blantyre, Malawi were used to construct regression models for five morbidity outco…

  • Comparing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of alternative type 2 diabetes monitoring intervals in resource limited settings

    Open AccessElton Mukonda, Maia Lesosky et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2024

    Type 2 diabetes (T2D) represents a growing disease burden in South Africa. While glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) testing is the gold standard for long-term blood glucose management, recommendations for HbA1c monitoring frequency are based on expert opinion. This study investigates the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of alternative HbA1c monitoring intervals in the management of T2D. A Markov model with three health states (HbA1c <7%, HbA1c ≥ 7%…

  • Increasing the uptake of Intermittent Preventive Treatment of malaria in pregnancy using Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) through seasonal malaria chemoprevention channel delivery

    Open AccessKadiatou Koita, Joel D Bognini et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Retrospectively registered on August 11th, 2022; registration # PACTR202208844472053. Protocol v4.0 dated September 04, 2023. Trail sponsor: University of Sciences Techniques and Technologies of Bamako (USTTB), Mali

  • Honestly, this problem has affected me a lot”

    Open AccessUzochukwu Egere, Elizabeth H Shayo et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Chronic respiratory diseases have substantial social and economic impacts among people with CRD and their families in Sudan and Tanzania. Stigma is particularly strong and appears to be driven partly by association of chronic cough with infectiousness. Context-appropriate measures to address economic impacts and chronic cough stigma are urgently needed as part of interventions for chronic respiratory diseases in these sub-Saharan African contexts

  • A comparative analysis and review of how national guidelines for chronic disease monitoring are made in low- and middle-income compared to high-income countries

    Open AccessElton Mukonda, Maia LesoskyARTICLEJournal of Global Health2021

    BACKGROUND: Understanding how clinical practice guidelines and recommendations are adopted in high-income and low-income settings will help contextualise the value and validity of recommendations in different settings. We investigate how major guidelines and recommendations are developed for management and monitoring of post-diagnosis treatment for three important chronic diseases: HIV, hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). METHODS: E…

  • Mixed-method estimation of population-level HIV viral suppression rate in the Western Cape, South Africa

    Open AccessElton Mukonda, Nei-Yuan Hsiao et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    INTRODUCTION: There are few population-wide data on viral suppression (VS) that can be used to monitor programmatic targets in sub-Saharan Africa. We describe how routinely collected viral load (VL) data from antiretroviral therapy (ART) programmes can be extrapolated to estimate population VS and validate this using a combination of empiric and model-based estimates. METHODS: VL test results from were matched using a record linkage algorithm to …

  • The role of HIV viral load in mathematical models of HIV transmission and treatment

    Open AccessTracy R Glass, Tracy Glass et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    Introduction: HIV viral load (VL) is accepted as a key biomarker in HIV transmission and pathogenesis. This paper presents a review of the role of VL testing in mathematical models for HIV prevention and treatment. Methods: A search for simulation models of HIV was conducted in PubMed, yielding a total of 1210 studies. Publications before the year 2000, studies involving animals and analyses that did not use mathematical simulations were excluded…