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  1. 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

  2. ‘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

  3. ‘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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. “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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

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

    Article • BMJ Global Health, April 2022, BMJ

    Nicola Desmond

  13. 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

  14. “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

  15. “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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. ‘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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. ‘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

  30. 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

  31. ‘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

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

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, December 2020, Elsevier

    Nicola Desmond

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. ‘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

  36. “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

  37. “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

  38. 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

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

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

    Nicola Desmond

  40. 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

  41. 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

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

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2019, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  43. A Randomized Trial of Prophylactic Antibiotics for Miscarriage Surgery

    Article • New England Journal of Medicine, March 2019, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Nicola Desmond

  44. 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

  45. 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

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

    Article • November 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Nicola Desmond

  47. 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

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

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2018, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  49. 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

  50. 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

  51. 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

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

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

    Nicola Desmond

  53. 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

  54. 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

  55. 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

  56. 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

  57. “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

  58. 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

  59. Understanding the role of community advisory groups in Malawi

    Article • Developing World Bioethics, September 2017, Wiley

    Mrs Deborah Nyirenda, Nicola Desmond

  60. 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

  61. 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

  62. 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

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

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2016, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  64. 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

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

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2016, PLOS

    Nicola Desmond

  66. 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

  67. 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

  68. ‘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

  69. 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

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

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

    Nicola Desmond

  71. 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

  72. 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

  73. 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

  74. 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, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Nicola Desmond

  75. 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

  76. 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

  77. 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

  78. 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

  79. 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

  80. 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

  81. 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

  82. 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

  83. 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

  84. 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

  85. 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

  86. 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

  87. 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

  88. 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

  89. 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

  90. 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

  91. 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

  92. 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

  93. 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

  94. 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

  95. 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