Botswana Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership

“Provided power is there, it will be a good initiative”: healthcare provider perspectives on diagnostic screening for curable STIs during pregnancy in Botswana

Diagnostic screening for curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) during antenatal care has the potential to improve health outcomes among women and infants in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). To inform roll-out and scale up of antenatal STI screening in LMICs, it...

Perspectives on adverse events reporting in hybrid implementation science (IS) clinical trials of approved medications in Sub-Saharan Africa

Implementation science (IS) hybrid type 2 and 3 clinical trials and pure implementation research of approved medications test strategies to increase uptake of evidence-based interventions (EBIs) with well-established safety profiles. Guidance on adverse event (AE) monitoring and...

High pre-frailty burden among people living with HIV in Botswana

Frailty is increasingly recognized as a significant aging-related condition in people living with HIV (PLWH), but data from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) - where the majority of PLWH reside - remain limited. Using standardized Fried frailty criteria, we assessed the prevalence and fac...