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  1. A context-responsive health systems intervention improves the uptake of early infant HIV diagnosis: Controlled before and after study in Malawi

    Article • PLOS Global Public Health, April 2026, PLOS

    Leticia Suwedi-Kapesa, Nicola Desmond

  2. Perspectives on multimorbidity care provision among public hospital-based healthcare workers in Blantyre and Chiradzulu, Malawi: A qualitative study

    Article • PLOS One, April 2026, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  3. Disengagement from care and disease severity among people self-testing positive for hepatitis C in Nigeria, Cameroon, and South Africa: a multi-country cohort analysis of implementation studies

    Article • February 2026, openRxiv

    Nicola Desmond

  4. Expert stakeholders on the role of qualitative research in World Health Organisation guidelines

    Article • Health Policy and Planning, February 2026, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Nicola Desmond

  5. Acceptability of COVID-19 self-testing among social and clinical vulnerable populations using a decentralized testing model in Abuja, Nigeria; A mixed methods analysis of an implementation study

    Article • PLOS Global Public Health, January 2026, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  6. Conflicting perspectives on what constitutes fair compensation and benefits among research stakeholders in Malawi

    Article • BMC Medical Ethics, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  7. COVID-19 diagnosis within five days of symptoms onset among healthcare workers in Malawi; Non-randomized control trial of self-testing using Ag-RDTs

    Article • PLOS Global Public Health, December 2025, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  8. Understanding the acceptability of COVID-19 antigen rapid diagnostic tests: A multi-country qualitative study

    Article • PLOS Global Public Health, November 2025, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  9. A Multicomponent Intervention to Improve Maternal Infection Outcomes

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, November 2025, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Mr Mark Monahan, Nicola Desmond

  10. Participant and researcher understandings of research responsibilities in malawi: a comparative analysis

    Article • BMC Medical Ethics, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  11. Self-management of chronic conditions including multimorbidity in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic and meta-synthesis review with focus on diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and HIV

    Article • PLOS Global Public Health, October 2025, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  12. Optimizing the implementation of case-area targeted interventions during cholera outbreaks with context-specific delivery mechanisms

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, September 2025, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  13. An exploratory study using respondent-driven sampling to map HIV risk across sex work locations in Blantyre, Malawi

    Article • JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, August 2025, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Nicola Desmond

  14. The burden of multimorbidity-associated acute hospital admissions in Malawi and Tanzania: a prospective multicentre cohort study

    Article • The Lancet Global Health, July 2025, Elsevier

    Nicola Desmond

  15. Exploring the Interplay of Social and Physical Factors in Risk Dynamics and Transitions Across the Life-Course of Female Sex Workers in Blantyre, Malawi: A Longitudinal Narrative Study

    Article • AIDS and Behavior, June 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  16. Developing an intervention to improve early infant HIV diagnosis service uptake among postpartum women in Malawi’s primary healthcare using a co-designing approach with stakeholders

    Article • PLOS Global Public Health, April 2025, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  17. Factors influencing uptake of COVID-19 diagnostics in Sub-Saharan Africa: a rapid scoping review

    Article • PLOS One, March 2025, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  18. A multifaceted intervention to improve diagnosis and early management of hospitalised patients with suspected acute brain infections in Brazil, India, and Malawi: an international multicentre intervention study

    Article • The Lancet, March 2025, Elsevier

    Nicola Desmond, Dr Vykuntaraju K Gowda

  19. Digital transformations in sex work: A scoping review of social media use by female sex workers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    Article • February 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Nicola Desmond

  20. Are facility service delivery models meeting the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa? A qualitative evidence synthesis

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  21. Coercive public health policies need context-specific ethical justifications

    Article • Bioethics News, October 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  22. Combined interventions for the testing and treatment of HIV and schistosomiasis among fishermen in Malawi: a three-arm, cluster-randomised trial

    Article • The Lancet Global Health, October 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Amaya L Bustinduy, Nicola Desmond

  23. Self-management of multimorbidity in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-synthesis with focus on diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease and HIV infection

    Article • September 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Nicola Desmond

  24. The effect on HIV transmission and cost-effectiveness of programmes for female sex workers in East, Central, and Southern Africa: a modelling study

    Article • The Lancet Global Health, September 2024, Elsevier

    Nicola Desmond

  25. Improving care pathways for children with severe illness through implementation of the ASPIRE mHealth primary ETAT package in Malawi

    Article • PLOS Global Public Health, April 2024, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  26. Use of qualitative research in World Health Organisation guidelines: a document analysis

    Article • Health Research Policy and Systems, April 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  27. Child acute illness presentation and referrals at primary health clinics in Malawi: a secondary analysis of ASPIRE

    Article • BMJ Open, April 2024, BMJ

    Nicola Desmond

  28. Experience of social harms among female sex workers following HIV self-test distribution in Malawi: results of a cohort study

    Article • BMC Infectious Diseases, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  29. Process Evaluation of Services for HIV-Infected Post-Partum Women and HIV-Exposed Infants in Primary Health Care Blantyre Malawi

    Article • Health Services Insights, January 2024, SAGE Publications

    Nicola Desmond

  30. Acceptance of and Adherence to a Four-Dose RTS,S/AS01 Schedule: Findings from a Longitudinal Qualitative Evaluation Study for the Malaria Vaccine Implementation Programme

    Article • Vaccines, December 2023, MDPI AG

    Nicola Desmond

  31. ‘Guidance should have been there 15 years ago’ research stakeholders’ perspectives on ancillary care in the global south: a case study of Malawi

    Article • BMC Medical Ethics, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  32. ‘Why would they spend all this money and give us these items for free?’: Exploring precarity and power in a cleaner cookstove intervention in rural Malawi

    Article • PLOS Global Public Health, February 2023, PLOS

    Jane Ardrey, Nicola Desmond

  33. A network of empirical ethics teams embedded in research programmes across multiple sites: opportunities and challenges in contributing to COVID-19 research and responses

    Article • Wellcome Open Research, January 2023, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Nicola Desmond

  34. Resource availability and barriers to delivering quality care for newborns in hospitals in the southern region of Malawi: A multisite observational study

    Article • PLOS Global Public Health, December 2022, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  35. Guardians and research staff experiences and views about the consent process in hospital-based paediatric research studies in urban Malawi: A qualitative study

    Article • BMC Medical Ethics, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  36. Factors impacting—stillbirth and neonatal death audit in Malawi: a qualitative study

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  37. “Don’t rush into thinking of walking again”: Patient views of treatment and disability following an open tibia fracture in Malawi

    Article • Wellcome Open Research, August 2022, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Nicola Desmond

  38. Primary motivations for and experiences with paediatric minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS) participation in Malawi: a qualitative study

    Article • BMJ Open, June 2022, BMJ

    Nicola Desmond

  39. A chronological discourse analysis of ancillary care provision in guidance documents for research conduct in the global south

    Article • BMC Medical Ethics, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  40. Prospective cohort study of referred Malawian children and their survival by hypoxaemia and hypoglycaemia status

    Article • Bulletin of the World Health Organization, May 2022, WHO Press

    Nicola Desmond

  41. Power and Powerlessness in a Group Based Digital Story Telling Project-An Exploration of Community Perceptions of Health Concerns in Urban Malawi

    Article • Frontiers in Public Health, April 2022, Frontiers

    Nicola Desmond

  42. A critical examination of research narratives ‘rumours’ and passive community resistance in medical research

    Article • BMJ Global Health, April 2022, BMJ

    Nicola Desmond

  43. Differentiated prevention and care to reduce the risk of HIV acquisition and transmission among female sex workers in Zimbabwe: study protocol for the ‘AMETHIST’ cluster randomised trial

    Article • Trials, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  44. A network of empirical ethics teams embedded in research programmes across multiple sites: opportunities and challenges in contributing to COVID-19 research and responses

    Article • Wellcome Open Research, February 2022, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Nicola Desmond

  45. “An increase in COVID-19 patients would be overwhelming”: A qualitative description of healthcare workers’ experiences during the first wave of COVID-19 (March 2020 to October 2020) at Malawi’s largest referral hospital.

    Article • Wellcome Open Research, February 2022, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Nicola Desmond

  46. “You have a self-testing method that preserves privacy so how come you cannot give us treatment that does too?” Exploring the reasoning among young people about linkage to prevention, care and treatment after HIV self-testing in Southern Malawi

    Article • BMC Infectious Diseases, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  47. Feasibility and acceptability of a peer-led HIV self-testing model among female sex workers in Malawi: a qualitative study

    Article • BMJ Open, December 2021, BMJ

    Nicola Desmond

  48. Differentiated Prevention And Care To Reduce The Risk of HIV Acquisition And Transmission Among Female Sex Workers In Zimbabwe: Study Protocol For The ‘AMETHIST’ Cluster Randomised Trial

    Article • September 2021, Research Square

    Nicola Desmond

  49. Effect of door-to-door distribution of HIV self-testing kits on HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy initiation: a cluster randomised trial in Malawi

    Article • BMJ Global Health, July 2021, BMJ

    Nicola Desmond

  50. Partner-delivered HIV self-test kits with and without financial incentives in antenatal care and index patients with HIV in Malawi: a three-arm, cluster-randomised controlled trial

    Article • The Lancet Global Health, July 2021, Elsevier

    Nicola Desmond

  51. What do we know about ancillary care practices in East and Southern Africa? A systematic review and meta-synthesis

    Article • Wellcome Open Research, June 2021, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Nicola Desmond

  52. Capacity Building for Health Care Workers and Support Staff in Pediatric Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) at Primary Health Care Level in Resource Limited Settings: Experiences from Malawi

    Article • Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing, May 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Nicola Desmond

  53. Effect of community-led delivery of HIV self-testing on HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy initiation in Malawi: A cluster-randomised trial

    Article • PLoS Medicine, May 2021, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  54. ‘Too old to test?’: A life course approach to HIV-related risk and self-testing among midlife-older adults in Malawi

    Article • BMC Public Health, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  55. Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI): a mixed-methods study on implementation, knowledge and resource availability in Malawi

    Article • BMJ Paediatrics Open, April 2021, BMJ

    Nicola Desmond

  56. Approaches, enablers, barriers and outcomes of implementing facility-based stillbirth and neonatal death audit in LMICs: a systematic review

    Article • BMJ Open Quality, March 2021, BMJ

    Nicola Desmond

  57. Clinical diagnosis in paediatric patients at urban primary health care facilities in southern Malawi: a longitudinal observational study

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  58. Hypothetical acceptability of hospital-based post-mortem pediatric minimally invasive tissue sampling in Malawi: The role of complex social relationships

    Article • PLOS One, February 2021, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  59. Prognostic Indicators and Outcomes of Hospitalised COVID-19 Patients with Neurological Disease: A Systematic Review and Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2021, Elsevier

    Catrin Tudur Smith, Nicola Desmond, Dr dan Wootton

  60. ‘Cooking is for everyone?’: Exploring the complexity of gendered dynamics in a cookstove intervention study in rural Malawi

    Article • Global Health Action, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Nicola Desmond

  61. Paediatric Emergency Triage, Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) – preparedness for implementation at primary care facilities in Malawi

    Article • Global Health Action, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Nicola Desmond

  62. ‘Too old to test?’: A life course approach to HIV-related risk and self-testing among midlife-older adults in Malawi

    Article • December 2020, Research Square

    Nicola Desmond

  63. Sex, power, marginalisation and HIV amongst young fishermen in Malawi: Exploring intersecting inequalities

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, December 2020, Elsevier

    Nicola Desmond

  64. Structural coercion in the context of community engagement in global health research conducted in a low resource setting in Africa

    Article • BMC Medical Ethics, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  65. Clinical diagnosis in paediatric patients at urban primary health care facilities in southern Malawi: a longitudinal observational study

    Article • August 2020, Research Square

    Nicola Desmond

  66. ‘Too old to test?’: A life course approach to HIV-related risk and self-testing among midlife-older adults in Malawi

    Article • April 2020, Research Square

    Nicola Desmond

  67. “I wanted evidence that my status had changed, so that is why I tested”: experiences with HIV self-testing among female sex workers in Malawi

    Article • AIDS Care, March 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Nicola Desmond

  68. “Are we getting the biometric bioethics right?” – the use of biometrics within the healthcare system in Malawi

    Article • Global Bioethics, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Nicola Desmond

  69. Community-led delivery of HIV self-testing to improve HIV testing, ART initiation and broader social outcomes in rural Malawi: study protocol for a cluster-randomised trial

    Article • BMC Infectious Diseases, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  70. HIV self-testing services for female sex workers, Malawi and Zimbabwe

    Article • Bulletin of the World Health Organization, September 2019, WHO Press

    Nicola Desmond

  71. A Randomized Trial of Prophylactic Antibiotics for Miscarriage Surgery

    Article • Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, July 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Nicola Desmond

  72. Post-test adverse psychological effects and coping mechanisms amongst HIV self-tested individuals living in couples in urban Blantyre, Malawi

    Article • PLOS One, June 2019, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  73. How should assent to research be sought in low income settings? Perspectives from parents and children in Southern Malawi

    Article • BMC Medical Ethics, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  74. Dust or disease? Perceptions of influenza in rural Southern Malawi

    Article • PLOS One, April 2019, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  75. A Randomized Trial of Prophylactic Antibiotics for Miscarriage Surgery

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, March 2019, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Nicola Desmond

  76. Exploring social harms during distribution of HIV self‐testing kits using mixed‐methods approaches in Malawi

    Article • Journal of the International AIDS Society, March 2019, Wiley

    Nicola Desmond

  77. Addressing Intimate Partner Violence Using Gender-Transformative Approaches at a Community Level in Rural Tanzania: The UZIKWASA program

    Article • Journal of Interpersonal Violence, February 2019, SAGE Publications

    Nicola Desmond

  78. Dust or disease? Perceptions of influenza in rural Southern Malawi

    Article • November 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Nicola Desmond

  79. The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of community-based lay distribution of HIV self-tests in increasing uptake of HIV testing among adults in rural Malawi and rural and peri-urban Zambia: protocol for STAR (self-testing for Africa) cluster randomi...

    Article • BMC Public Health, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  80. Complexities and dilemmas in community consultation on the design of a research project logo in Malawi

    Article • PLOS One, October 2018, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  81. A qualitative evaluation of hospital versus community-based management of patients on injectable treatments for tuberculosis

    Article • BMC Public Health, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  82. Six dimensions of research trial acceptability: how much, what, when, in what circumstances, to whom and why?

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, September 2018, Elsevier

    Nicola Desmond

  83. Household concepts of wellbeing and the contribution of palliative care in the context of advanced cancer: A Photovoice study from Blantyre, Malawi

    Article • PLOS One, August 2018, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  84. Measuring sexual behaviour in Malawi: a triangulation of three data collection instruments

    Article • BMC Public Health, June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  85. Prophylactic antibiotics to reduce pelvic infection in women having miscarriage surgery – The AIMS (Antibiotics in Miscarriage Surgery) trial: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

    Article • Trials, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  86. Pressured HIV testing “in the name of love”: a mixed methods analysis of pressured HIV testing among men who have sex with men in China

    Article • Journal of the International AIDS Society, March 2018, Wiley

    Nicola Desmond

  87. Discordance, Disclosure and Normative Gender Roles: Barriers to Couple Testing Within a Community-Level HIV Self-Testing Intervention in Urban Blantyre, Malawi

    Article • AIDS and Behavior, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  88. Coercion and HIV Self-Testing in Men Who Have Sex With Men: Implementation Data From a Cross-Sectional Survey in China

    Article • JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, February 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Nicola Desmond

  89. “Not just dogs, but rabid dogs”: tensions and conflicts amongst research volunteers in Malawi

    Article • Global Bioethics, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Mrs Deborah Nyirenda, Nicola Desmond

  90. TB and HIV stigma compounded by threatened masculinity: implications for TB health-care seeking in Malawi

    Article • The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, November 2017, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

    Nicola Desmond

  91. Understanding the role of community advisory groups in Malawi

    Article • Developing World Bioethics, September 2017, Wiley

    Mrs Deborah Nyirenda, Nicola Desmond

  92. Investigating interventions to increase uptake of HIV testing and linkage into care or prevention for male partners of pregnant women in antenatal clinics in Blantyre, Malawi: study protocol for a cluster randomised trial

    Article • Trials, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  93. Uptake contexts and perceived impacts of HIV testing and counselling among adults in East and Southern Africa: A meta-ethnographic review

    Article • PLOS One, February 2017, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  94. Acceptability of woman-delivered HIV self-testing to the male partner, and additional interventions: a qualitative study of antenatal care participants in Malawi

    Article • Journal of the International AIDS Society, January 2017, Wiley

    Nicola Desmond

  95. Perceptions of Research Bronchoscopy in Malawian Adults with Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Cross-Sectional Study

    Article • PLOS One, October 2016, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  96. Public engagement in Malawi through a health-talk radio programme ‘Umoyo nkukambirana’: A mixed-methods evaluation

    Article • Public Understanding of Science, June 2016, SAGE Publications

    Mrs Deborah Nyirenda, Nicola Desmond

  97. The Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) in Malawi: A Nested Pilot of Photovoice Participatory Research Methodology

    Article • PLOS One, June 2016, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  98. Treatment-Seeking for Tuberculosis-Suggestive Symptoms: A Reflection on the Role of Human Agency in the Context of Universal Health Coverage in Malawi

    Article • PLOS One, April 2016, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  99. Uptake, Accuracy, Safety, and Linkage into Care over Two Years of Promoting Annual Self-Testing for HIV in Blantyre, Malawi: A Community-Based Prospective Study

    Article • PLoS Medicine, September 2015, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  100. ‘Whose failure counts?’ A critical reflection on definitions of failure for community health volunteers providing HIV self-testing in a community-based HIV/TB intervention study in urban Malawi

    Article • Anthropology and Medicine, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Nicola Desmond

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

    Article • Review of African Political Economy, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Nicola Desmond

  102. Engaging with risk in non-Western settings: an editorial

    Article • Health Risk & Society, May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Nicola Desmond

  103. Towards a gender perspective in qualitative research on voluntary medical male circumcision in east and southern Africa

    Article • Global Public Health, March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Nicola Desmond

  104. The impact of the 2011 UK post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV following sexual exposure guidelines: a regional retrospective audit

    Article • International Journal of STD & AIDS, October 2014, SAGE Publications

    Nicola Desmond

  105. Control, struggle, and emergent masculinities: a qualitative study of men’s care-seeking determinants for chronic cough and tuberculosis symptoms in Blantyre, Malawi

    Article • BMC Public Health, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  106. Through the Rabbit Hole: Considering the Situational Experience of Risk among Men Who Have Sex with Men in the Context of HIV Prevention

    Article • AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, October 2014, SAGE Publications

    Nicola Desmond

  107. Effect of Optional Home Initiation of HIV Care Following HIV Self-testing on Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation Among Adults in Malawi

    Article • JAMA, July 2014, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Nicola Desmond

  108. Factors Shaping Initial Decision-Making to Self-test Amongst Cohabiting Couples in Urban Blantyre, Malawi

    Article • AIDS and Behavior, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  109. A Novel Community Health Worker Tool Outperforms WHO Clinical Staging for Assessment of Antiretroviral Therapy Eligibility in a Resource-Limited Setting

    Article • JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, February 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Nicola Desmond

  110. Improving recognition of severe illness and patient pathways in primary health services using mHealth technology in urban Blantyre, Malawi

    Article • Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine, December 2013, Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine

    Nicola Desmond

  111. Considerations for a Human Rights Impact Assessment of a Population Wide Treatment for HIV Prevention Intervention

    Article • Developing World Bioethics, November 2013, Wiley

    Nicola Desmond

  112. Community perceptions of the social determinants of child health in Western Cape, South Africa: neglect as a major indicator of child health and wellness

    Article • Paediatrics and International Child Health, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Nicola Desmond

  113. Recognising and Treatment Seeking for Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Adults and Children in Resource-Poor Settings: A Qualitative Study

    Article • PLOS One, July 2013, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  114. Barriers and facilitators to linkage to ART in primary care: a qualitative study of patients and providers in Blantyre, Malawi

    Article • Journal of the International AIDS Society, December 2012, Wiley

    Nicola Desmond

  115. Transactional sex and HIV: understanding the gendered structural drivers of HIV in fishing communities in Southern Malawi

    Article • Journal of the International AIDS Society, June 2012, Wiley

    Nicola Desmond

  116. Managing risk through treatment-seeking in rural north-western Tanzania: Categorising health problems as malaria andnzoka

    Article • Health Risk & Society, April 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Nicola Desmond

  117. Suboptimal patterns of provider initiated HIV testing and counselling, antiretroviral therapy eligibility assessment and referral in primary health clinic attendees in Blantyre, Malawi*

    Article • Tropical Medicine & International Health, February 2012, Wiley

    Nicola Desmond

  118. Stigmatising Attitudes among People Offered Home-Based HIV Testing and Counselling in Blantyre, Malawi: Construction and Analysis of a Stigma Scale

    Article • PLOS One, October 2011, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  119. The Uptake and Accuracy of Oral Kits for HIV Self-Testing in High HIV Prevalence Setting: A Cross-Sectional Feasibility Study in Blantyre, Malawi

    Article • PLoS Medicine, October 2011, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  120. Comparison of Sexual Behavior Data Collected Using a Coital Diary and a Clinic-Based Interview During a Microbicide Pilot Study in Mwanza, Tanzania

    Article • Sexually Transmitted Diseases, August 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Nicola Desmond

  121. Intravaginal and Menstrual Practices among Women Working in Food and Recreational Facilities in Mwanza, Tanzania: Implications for Microbicide Trials

    Article • AIDS and Behavior, July 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  122. Sexual risk behaviour for women working in recreational venues in Mwanza, Tanzania: considerations for the acceptability and use of vaginal microbicide gels

    Article • Culture Health & Sexuality, August 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Nicola Desmond

  123. A model for community representation and participation in HIV prevention trials among women who engage in transactional sex in Africa

    Article • AIDS Care, September 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Nicola Desmond

  124. Validity of coital diaries in a feasibility study for the Microbicides Development Programme trial among women at high risk of HIV/AIDS in Mwanza, Tanzania

    Article • Sexually Transmitted Infections, July 2007, BMJ

    Nicola Desmond

  125. The benefits of participatory methodologies to develop effective community dialogue in the context of a microbicide trial feasibility study in Mwanza, Tanzania

    Article • BMC Public Health, July 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicola Desmond

  126. Acceptability of azithromycin for the control of trachoma in Northern Tanzania

    Article • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, September 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Nicola Desmond

  127. A typology of groups at risk of HIV/STI in a gold mining town in north-western Tanzania

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, April 2005, Elsevier

    Nicola Desmond