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Patten GE, Cox V, Stinson K, Boulle AM, Wilkinson LS

2014-04-23 • Clinical Infectious Diseases

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Review

Stinson K, Goemaere E, Coetzee D, van Cutsem G, Hilderbrand K, et al.

2016-05-20 • International Journal of Epidemiology

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Cox V, De Azevedo V, Stinson K, Wilkinson LS, Rangaka MX, et al.

2015-11-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

BACKGROUND
The World Health Organization recommends tuberculin skin tests (TSTs) where feasible to identify individuals most likely to benefit from isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT)...

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Sinanovic E, Ramma L, Vassall A, Azevedo VD, Wilkinson LS, et al.

2015-02-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

SETTING
The cost of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment is a major barrier to treatment scale-up in South Africa.

OBJECTIVE
To estimate and compare the c...

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Venables E, Towriss C, Rini Z, Nxiba X, Cassidy T, et al.

2019-06-20 • PLOS One

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Globally, 37 million people are in need of lifelong antiretroviral treatment (ART). With the continual increase in the number of people living with HIV starting ART and ...

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Letter

Grimsrud A, Wilkinson LS, Cornell M

2015-06-01 • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)

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Wilkinson LS, Grimsrud A, Cassidy T, Orrell C, Voget J, et al.

2019-07-30 • BMC Infectious Diseases

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The antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence club (AC) differentiated service delivery model, where clinically stable ART patients receive their ART refills and psychosoci...

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Sharp J, Wilkinson LS, Cox V, Cragg C, van Custem G, et al.

2019-06-11 • Southern African Journal of HIV medicine

BACKGROUND
Eligibility for differentiated antiretroviral therapy (ART) delivery models has to date been limited to low-risk stable patients.
OBJECTIVES
We examined the outcom...

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Keene CM, Zokufa N, Venables E, Wilkinson LS, Hoffman R, et al.

2020-07-08 • BMJ Open

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Longer intervals between routine clinic visits and medication refills are part of patient-centred, differentiated service delivery (DSD). They have been shown to improve pa...

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Commentary

Duncombe C, Rosenblum S, Hellmann N, Holmes CB, Wilkinson LS, et al.

2015-02-16 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

The delivery of HIV care in the initial rapid scale-up of HIV care and treatment was based on existing clinic-based models, which are common in highly resourced settings and largely undi...

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Letter

Cox V, Wilkinson LS, Grimsrud A, Hughes J, Reuter A, et al.

2020-04-02 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

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Commentary

Cornell M, Cox V, Wilkinson LS

2015-08-31 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

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Patten GE, Wilkinson LS, Conradie K, Isaakidis P, Harries AD, et al.

2013-07-04 • Journal of the International AIDS Society

Despite the rapid expansion of antiretroviral therapy (ART) programmes in developing countries, pre-treatment losses from care remain a challenge to improving access to treatment. Youth ...

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Short Report

Wilkinson LS

2013-05-21 • Southern African Journal of HIV medicine

The ART-adherence club model described here provides patient-friendly access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for clinically stable patients. It reduces the burden that stable patients pl...

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Cox HS, Ramma L, Wilkinson LS, Azevedo VD, Sinanovic E

2015-06-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

The high cost of rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB) treatment hinders treatment access. South Africa has a high RR-TB burden, and national policy outlines decentralisation to impr...

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Tsondai PR, Wilkinson LS, Grimsrud A, Mdlalo PT, Ullauri A, et al.

2017-07-21 • Journal of the International AIDS Society

Increasingly, there is a need for health authority scale up of successfully piloted differentiated models of antiretroviral therapy (ART) delivery. However, there is a paucity of evidenc...

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Ramma L, Cox HS, Wilkinson LS, Foster N, Cunnama L, et al.

2015-12-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

SETTING
South Africa is one of the world's 22 high tuberculosis (TB) burden countries, with the second highest number of notified rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB) and multidrug-resist...

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Commentary

Grimsrud A, Bygrave H, Wilkinson LS

2018-08-15 • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)

Differentiated care, or differentiated service delivery (DSD), is increasingly being promoted as one of the possible ways to address and improve access, quality, and efficiency of HIV pr...

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Henwood R, Patten GE, Barnett W, Hwang B, Metcalf CJ, et al.

2016-04-21 • AIDS Care

INTRODUCTION
Médecins Sans Frontières supports human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected youth, aged 12-25 years, at a clinic in Khayelitsha, South Africa. Patients are enrolled in...

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Cassidy T, Grimsrud A, Keene CM, Lebelo K, Hayes H, et al.

2020-12-01 • Journal of the International AIDS Society

INTRODUCTION
The antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence club (AC) model has supported clinically stable HIV patients’ retention with group ART refills and psychosocial support. Reduc...

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Advanced HIV disease at antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation despite implementation of expanded ART eligibility guidelines during 2007-2012 in Khayelitsha, South Africa

Cohort profile: the Khayelitsha antiretroviral programme, Cape Town, South Africa

Diagnostic accuracy of tuberculin skin test self-reading by HIV patients in a low-resource setting

Impact of reduced hospitalisation on the cost of treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa

Patient experiences of ART adherence clubs in Khayelitsha and Gugulethu, Cape Town, South Africa: A qualitative study

The challenge of retention within antiretroviral treatment programmes and the need for recent data

A cluster randomized controlled trial of extending ART refill intervals to six-monthly for anti-retroviral adherence clubs

Outcomes of patients enrolled in an antiretroviral adherence club with recent viral suppression after experiencing elevated viral loads

'Only twice a year': a qualitative exploration of 6-month antiretroviral treatment refills in adherence clubs for people living with HIV in Khayelitsha, South Africa

Reframing HIV care: Putting people at the centre of antiretroviral delivery

Critical changes to services for TB patients during the COVID-19 pandemic

Public health blindness towards men in HIV programmes in Africa

Impact on ART initiation of point-of-care CD4 testing at HIV diagnosis among HIV-positive youth in Khayelitsha, South Africa

ART adherence clubs: a long-term retention strategy for clinically stable patients receiving antiretroviral therapy

Cost Per Patient of Treatment for Rifampicin-Resistant Tuberculosis in a Community-Based Programme in Khayelitsha, South Africa

High Rates of Retention and Viral Suppression in the Scale-Up of Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence Clubs in Cape Town, South Africa

Patients' costs associated with seeking and accessing treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa

For Family-Centered Differentiated Service Delivery for HIV

Acceptability and use of a virtual support group for HIV-positive youth in Khayelitsha, Cape Town using the MXit social networking platform

Twenty‐four‐month outcomes from a cluster‐randomized controlled trial of extending antiretroviral therapy refills in ART adherence clubs