Wendy Stevens

Biographic Data

ID9065122
NAMEWendy Stevens
GIVEN NAMESWendy
FAMILY NAMEStevens
SIGNATURESTEVENS W
AFFILIATIONSNational Health Laboratory Service
ORCID0000-0002-1684-908X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Ten-year health impact, economic impact and return on investment of the South African molecular diagnostics programme for HIV, tuberculosis and Sars-CoV-2

    Open AccessBrooke E Nichols, Alexandra de Nooy et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    INTRODUCTION: To ensure there is adequate investment into diagnostics, an understanding of the magnitude of impact and return on investment is necessary. We, therefore, sought to understand the health and economic impacts of the molecular diagnostic programme in South Africa, to deepen the understanding of the broad value of diagnostics and guide future healthcare investments. METHODS: We calculated the 10-year (where data were available) total c…

  • The fall—And rise—In hospital-based care for people with HIV in South Africa

    Open AccessEvelyn Lauren, Khumbo Shumba et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    ART scale-up has reduced HIV mortality in South Africa. However, less is known about trends in hospital-based HIV care, which is costly and may indicate HIV-related morbidity. We assessed trends in hospital-based HIV care using the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) National HIV Cohort. Our study included all adults ≥18 years receiving care in South Africa’s public sector HIV program from 2004 to 2017 with at least one CD4 count/viral load…

  • Estimating the effect of a rifampicin resistant tuberculosis diagnosis by the Xpert MTB/RIF assay on two-year mortality

    Open AccessElise De Vos, Daniel Westreich et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Studies assessing patient-centred outcomes of novel rifampicin resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB) diagnostics are rare and mostly apply conventional methods which may not adequately address biases. Even though the Xpert MTB/RIF molecular assay was endorsed a decade ago for simultaneous diagnosis of tuberculosis and RR-TB, the impact of the assay on mortality among people with RR-TB has not yet been assessed. We analysed data of an observational prosp…

  • Antiretroviral Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention in Heterosexual Men and Women

    Jared M Baeten, Deborah Donnell et al.ARTICLENew England Journal of Medicine2012

    BACKGROUND: Antiretroviral preexposure prophylaxis is a promising approach for preventing human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection in heterosexual populations. METHODS: We conducted a randomized trial of oral antiretroviral therapy for use as preexposure prophylaxis among HIV-1-serodiscordant heterosexual couples from Kenya and Uganda. The HIV-1-seronegative partner in each couple was randomly assigned to one of three study regimens-…

  • Heterosexual HIV-1 transmission after initiation of antiretroviral therapy

    Open AccessDeborah Donnell, Jared M Baeten et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2010

  • Bowhead whales, and not right whales, were the primary target of 16th- to 17th-century Basque Whalers in the Western North Atlantic

    Open AccessB A McLeod, MOIRA W BROWN et al.ARTICLEARCTIC2009

    During the 16th and 17th centuries, Basque whalers travelled annually to the Strait of Belle Isle and Gulf of St. Lawrence to hunt whales. The hunting that occurred during this period is of primary significance for the North Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776), because it has been interpreted as the largest human-induced reduction of the western North Atlantic population, with ~12250–21 000 whales killed. It has been frequent…