Victor Mwapasa

Dados Biográficos

ID1735645
NOMEVictor Mwapasa
PRENOMESVictor
SOBRENOMEMwapasa
ASSINATURAMWAPASA V
AFILIAÇÕESKamuzu Central Hospital
ORCID0000-0002-2748-8902
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS27
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES7
TOTAL COMO AUTOR27
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2011
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Malaria entomological surveillance in Kinshasa Province

    Open AccessFabien Vulu, Melchior M Kashamuka et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Malaria remains a major public health challenge in the Democratic Republic of Congo. To address the lack of contemporary entomological data, this four-year study characterized key entomological parameters in Kinshasa Province. We conducted a prospective observational cohort study (2018-2022) in three health areas. Adult mosquitoes were sampled using CDC light traps and pyrethrum spray catches. Sporozoite rates were estimated using ELISA, and trap…

  • Effect of a digital training package on clinical outcomes in Malawi’s index case testing programme

    Open AccessNora E Rosenberg, Nora Rosenberg et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    INTRODUCTION: Training health workers is a common implementation strategy to expand evidence-based interventions. Digital training is a promising way of reaching more health workers, minimising clinical interruptions and lowering costs, but clinical outcomes are rarely evaluated in low-income settings. Clinical outcomes were evaluated in Malawi's HIV index case testing programme through the Package of Resources for Assisted Contact Tracing: Imple…

  • Implementation strategies and economic considerations for point-of-care ultrasound in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    Open AccessGrace W Banda-Katha, Timothy Kachitosi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is increasingly adopted as a diagnostic tool in low- and middle-income countries due to its accessibility and comparatively low costs. This review aims to synthesise successful implementation strategies for POCUS and evaluate existing literature on its associated cost implications. We conducted a scoping review following recommendations of the Joanna Briggs Institute’s manual for evidence synthesis and the PRISMA-…

  • Are hospital management practices associated with enhanced quality of care for small and sick newborns? A nationwide cross-sectional study using linked inpatient admission records in Malawi

    Open AccessCharlotte Ward, Wanangwa Chimwaza et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2026

    Background: Improved quality of care is fundamental for reducing patient mortality and building sustainable health systems. Currently, there is a lack of research on the role of hospital management in improving the quality of care and health outcomes, particularly in low-income settings. Methods: We examined associations between hospital management practices and neonatal quality of care in Malawi. We adapted the World Management Survey tool to me…

  • Prevalence and factors associated with uptake of repeat HIV testing among pregnant women in Blantyre, Malawi

    Open AccessChikalipo MC, Maria Chifuniro Chikalipo et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2026

    Repeat HIV testing during pregnancy is significant to detect new maternal HIV infections and mitigate the risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission. Despite guidelines advocating retesting of initially HIV-negative pregnant women, there is limited information on the implementation of these recommendations. The aim of this study is to assess the magnitude of repeat HIV testing uptake in the third trimester and its associated factors. We conducted a…

  • Acceptability, feasibility and appropriateness of integrating HPV self-sampling for cervical cancer screening into voluntary family planning services in Malawi

    Open AccessPatani Mhango, Andrew Kumitawa et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Despite being preventable, the cervical cancer burden remains high in Malawi and other low-income countries. The World Health Organization recommends cervical cancer screening (CCS) using human papillomavirus (HPV) testing. The coverage of HPV-based CCS is low but may increase with self-sampling of vaginal fluid. We assessed the acceptability, feasibility and appropriateness of two models for integrating HPV self-sampling for CCS into family plan…

  • Client perspectives and satisfaction with integrating facility and community-based HPV self-sampling for cervical cancer screening with family planning

    Open AccessAgatha Bula, Agatha K Bula et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Our findings highlight that women were satisfied with HPV self-sampling, valuing its convenience, privacy, and cost-effectiveness, which enhanced their willingness to undergo CCS. These findings suggest that integrating CCS self-sampling into FP services could potentially improve CCS uptake in Malawi

  • What is the relationship between hospital management practices and quality of care? A systematic review of the global evidence

    Open AccessCharlotte Ward, Elias Rejoice Maynard Phiri et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2025

    There is a widely held view that good management improves organizational performance. However, hospitals are complex organizations, and the relationship between management practices and health service delivery is not straightforward. We conducted a global, systematic literature review of the quantitative evidence on the link between the adoption of management practices and quality of care in hospitals. We searched in PubMed, EMBASE, EconLit, Glob…

  • Intermittent preventive treatment with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine but not dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine modulates the relationship between inflammatory markers and adverse pregnancy outcomes in Malaw…

    Open AccessKaylene Cheng, Elizabeth H Aitken et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Women in malaria-endemic areas receive sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) as Intermittent Preventive Treatment in Pregnancy (IPTp) to reduce malaria. While dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP) has superior antimalarial properties as IPTp, SP is associated with superior fetal growth. As maternal inflammation influences fetal growth, we investigated whether SP alters the relationship between inflammation and birth outcomes. We measured C-reactive prote…

  • Evaluating the impact of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis on pregnancy, infant, and maternal health outcomes in Malawi

    Open AccessFriday Saidi, Sanya Shah et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    NCT06158126. The study was prospectively registered (5 December 2023) in ClinicalTrials.gov

  • Surprising Gendered Age Differences in Rural Malawians’ Early Covid-19 Pandemic Prevention Efforts

    Open AccessTyler W Myroniuk, Hans‐peter Kohler et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2024Referências: 2

    Gendered age differences in preventing the transmission of COVID-19 offer hints of larger social norms affecting protective efforts. The analyses also inform future COVID-19 public health outreach efforts in Malawi and other rural SSA contexts

  • ‘If I am on ART, my new-born baby should be put on treatment immediately’

    Open AccessMaggie Nyirenda-Nyang’wa, Moses Kumwenda et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Early infant diagnosis of HIV (EID-HIV) is key to reducing paediatric HIV mortality. Traditional approaches for diagnosing HIV in exposed infants are usually unable to optimally contribute to EID. Point-of-care testing such as Cepheid Xpert HIV-1 Qual assay-1 (XPertHIV) are available and could improve EID-HIV in resource constrained and high HIV burden contexts. We investigated the acceptability and perceived appropriateness of XpertHIV for EID-H…

  • Household costs and care seeking patterns associated with Covid-19 in Blantyre, Malawi

    Open AccessJobiba Chinkhumba, Samuel Mpinganjira et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Economic consequences of COVID-19 illness and healthcare use for households in low income countries are not well known. We estimated costs associated with COVID-19 care-seeking and treatment from a household perspective and assessed determinants of treatment costs. A cross-sectional household survey was conducted between December 2020 and November 2021 in urban and peri-urban areas of Blantyre district. Adults (age ≥18 years) with confirmed COVID…

  • Near-universal same-day linkage to ART care among newly diagnosed adults living with HIV

    Open AccessRachel Chihana, Chaplain Katumbi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Malawi HIV treatment guidelines recommend same-day antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation. Overall 97.9% of Malawians living with HIV (PLHIV) are on ART, same-day ART initiation prevalence and factors that facilitate it have not been fully described. We assessed same-day ART initiation and described individual, health system and health facility infrastructural factors at health facilities supported by expert clients (EC). ECs are lay PLHIV who s…

  • “Why take the patient back home?”

    Open AccessAlinane Linda Nyondo-Mipando, Deborah Nyirenda et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to have serious health and socio-economic consequences. In Malawi, COVID-19 cases are managed at home, with hospital admission reserved for severe cases. This study described the lived experiences of caregivers of COVID-19-infected individuals in Blantyre, Malawi. This descriptive qualitative study was conducted from January to June 2021 in Blantyre, Malawi, among caregivers of confirmed…

  • Barker's Hypothesis Among the Global Poor

    Open AccessAlberto Ciancio, Jere R Behrman et al.ARTICLEDemography2023Referências: 35

    An influential literature on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) has documented that poor conditions in utero lead to higher risk of cardiovascular disease at older ages. Evidence from low-income countries (LICs) has hitherto been missing, despite the fact that adverse in utero conditions are far more common in LICs. We find that Malawians exposed in utero to the 1949 Nyasaland famine have better cardiovascular health 70 years…

  • “You Cannot Catch Fish Near the Shore nor Can You Sell Fish Where There Are No Customers”

    Open AccessAlinane Linda Nyondo-Mipando, Mphatso Kumwenda et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Men s Health2021

    HIV testing is the entry point to the cascade of services within HIV care. Although Malawi has made positive strides in HIV testing, men are lagging at 65.5% while women are at 81.6%. This study explored the preferences of men on the avenues for HIV testing in Blantyre, Malawi. This was a descriptive qualitative study in the phenomenological tradition in seven public health facilities in Blantyre, Malawi, among men and health-care workers (HCWs).…

  • Prisoners’ access to HIV services in southern Malawi

    Open AccessAustrida Gondwe, Alemayehu Amberbir et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Malawian prisoners reported adequate knowledge about HIV services albeit with gaps in specific areas. Prisoners from smaller, rural prisons had suboptimal access to comprehensive HIV services and female prisoners reported having less access to health care than males. Prisoners have great concern about their poor living conditions affecting general health and adherence to ART. These findings provide guidance for improvement of HIV services and gen…

  • Curtailing Covid-19 on a dollar-a-day in Malawi

    Open AccessIliana V Kohler, Fabrice Kämpfen et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2021Citada por: 3Referências: 3

  • Factors associated with loss-to-follow-up of HIV-positive mothers and their infants enrolled in HIV care clinic

    Open AccessSamuel Mpinganjira, Timothy Tchereni et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Our study has found multiple factors at personal, family, community and health system levels, which contribute to poor retention of mother-infant pairs in HIV care

  • Receipt of infant HIV DNA PCR test results is associated with a reduction in retention of HIV-exposed infants in integrated HIV care and healthcare services

    Open AccessElasma Milanzi, Victor Mwapasa et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Pan African Clinical Trial Registry: PACTR201312000678196

  • Sex, power, marginalisation and HIV amongst young fishermen in Malawi

    Open AccessEleanor E Macpherson, Maxwell Phiri et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2020Citada por: 1Referências: 38

    Through scale-up of effective treatment and prevention, HIV incidence rates are falling across Southern and Eastern Africa. However, key population groups, including people living in fishing communities, continue to face an elevated risk of infection and have high rates of undiagnosed disease. We set out to investigate how intersecting inequalities make young fishermen working on the southern shores of Lake Malawi particularly vulnerable to HIV-i…

  • The Demand and Supply Side Determinants of Access to Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Services in Malawi

    Open AccessAnne Matthews, Aisling Walsh et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2019

  • The use of technology enhanced learning in health research capacity development

    Open AccessElaine Byrne, Lisa Donaldson et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2016

    BACKGROUND: With the recognition of the need for research capacity strengthening for advancing health and development, this research capacity article explores the use of technology enhanced learning in the delivery of a collaborative postgraduate blended Master's degree in Malawi. Two research questions are addressed: (i) Can technology enhanced learning be used to develop health research capacity?, and: (ii) How can learning content be designed …

  • Exploring the complexity of microfinance and HIV in fishing communities on the shores of Lake Malawi

    Open AccessEleanor E Macpherson, Eleanor Macpherson et al.ARTICLEReview of African Political Economy2015Citada por: 3Referências: 5

    This study utilised qualitative research methodology to explore female fish traders’ experiences of accessing microfinance in fishing communities in southern Malawi. Microfinance is a tool that has been used to alleviate poverty. People living in fishing communities in the Global South are at an increased risk of HIV and, equally, microfinance has been identified as a tool to prevent HIV. The authors' research found consistent testimonies of over…