OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Human immunodeficiency virus and mortality from coronavirus disease 2019: A systematic review and meta-analysis	32
The updated South African National Guideline for the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of Communicable Infections (2019)	30
Evaluation of a mobile application to support HIV self-testing in Johannesburg, South Africa	21
Adolescent human immunodeficiency virus self-management: Associations with treatment adherence, viral suppression, sexual risk behaviours and health-related quality of life	21
Southern African HIV Clinicians Society guidelines for antiretroviral therapy in adults: 2020 update	20
Southern African guidelines on the safe, easy and effective use of pre-exposure prophylaxis: 2020	17
HIV infection in Eastern and Southern Africa: Highest burden, largest challenges, greatest potential	16
World AIDS Day 2020: Reflections on global and South African progress and continuing challenges	11
Ten years of nurse-initiated antiretroviral treatment in South Africa: A narrative review of enablers and barriers	11
Case report: Emergence of dolutegravir resistance in a patient on second-line antiretroviral therapy	9
Feasibility of implementing same-day antiretroviral therapy initiation during routine care in Ekurhuleni District, South Africa: Retention and viral load suppression	9
COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and associated factors among people living with HIV in the Middle East and North Africa region	9
Establishing targets for advanced HIV disease: A call to action	8
Retention in care for adolescents who were newly initiated on antiretroviral therapy in the Cape Metropole in South Africa	8
Profile of presentation of HIV-positive patients to an emergency department in Johannesburg, South Africa	8
Impact of routine birth early infant diagnosis on neonatal HIV treatment cascade in eThekwini district, South Africa	7
Effects of HIV and non-communicable disease comorbidity on healthcare costs and health experiences in people living with HIV in Zimbabwe	7
Uptake of the Ithaka mobile application in Johannesburg, South Africa, for human immunodeficiency virus self-testing result reporting	7
Understanding adherence in virally suppressed and unsuppressed human immunodeficiency virus-positive urban patients on second-line antiretroviral treatment	6
Feasibility of implementing a novel behavioural smoking cessation intervention amongst human immunodeficiency virus-infected smokers in a resource-limited setting: A single-arm pilot trial	6
Undisclosed exposure to antiretrovirals prior to treatment initiation: An exploratory analysis	6
Implementation of a PMTCT programme in a high HIV prevalence setting in Johannesburg, South Africa: 2002–2015	6
Southern African HIV Clinicians Society guidelines for harm reduction	5
A trio of infectious diseases and pulmonary embolism: A developing world’s reality	5
Be legally wise: When is parental consent required for adolescents’ access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)?	5

Geographical variation in HIV testing in South Africa: Evidence from the 2017 national household HIV survey	5
Patient acceptance of HIV testing services in rural emergency departments in South Africa	5
Ocular manifestations of people living with HIV in Tunisia	5
Breaking the unbreakable: A paediatric case of dolutegravir resistance from KwaZulu-Natal	4
Healthcare worker compliance with cervical cancer screening guidelines. An audit at district and regional level of care in the Pietermaritzburg Metropolitan area of KwaZulu-Natal	4
Access to HIV services and viral load suppression among children during the 90-90-90 strategy implementation in South Africa: A time series analysis	4
Derangement of protein S and C4b-binding protein levels as acquired thrombophilia in HIV-infected adult Nigerians	4
Five years after Treat All implementation: Botswana’s HIV response and future directions in the era of COVID-19	4
Southern African HIV Clinicians Society gender-affirming healthcare guideline for South Africa	4
Predictors of low antiretroviral adherence at an urban South African clinic: A mixed-methods study	3
Emergent dolutegravir resistance in integrase-naïve, treatment experienced patients from Zimbabwe	3
Earlier antiretroviral initiation is independently associated with better arterial stiffness in children living with perinatally acquired HIV with sustained viral suppression in Mozambique	3
Southern African HIV Clinicians Society 2022 guideline for the management of sexually transmitted infections: Moving towards best practice	3
Looking back at paediatric HIV treatment in South Africa. My, how we have grown!	3
Factors associated with viral suppression among adolescents on antiretroviral therapy in Free State province, South Africa	3
Tobacco smoking and associated factors in human immunodeficiency virus-infected adults attending human immunodeficiency virus clinics in the Western Cape province, South Africa	3
Dolutegravir for second-line treatment: Programmatic implications of new evidence	3
Adolescent healthcare: I’m Lovin’ it	3
COVID-19 and HIV viral load suppression in children and adolescents in Durban, South Africa	3
Knowledge, attitudes and behaviours towards people with HIV and AIDS among private higher education students in Johannesburg, South Africa	3
Effect of obesity on dolutegravir exposure in Black Southern African adults living with HIV	3
Antiretroviral therapy optimisation in the time of COVID-19: Is it really different in North and South Africa?	3
Low CD4 count and educational status predict abnormal cervical smears amongst HIV-positive women initiating antiretroviral therapy in South Africa	3
Group counselling for adherence support among young people failing first-line antiretroviral therapy in Zimbabwe	3
Understanding patients reinitiating antiretroviral therapy in two South African districts	3
Association between socio-economic factors and HIV self-testing knowledge amongst South African women	3
The prevalence and spectrum of mucocutaneous disease in South African people living with HIV and accessing care at a district-level hospital	3
Human immunodeficiency virus, diabetes mellitus and thyroid abnormalities: Should we be screening?	3
Late-onset efavirenz toxicity: A descriptive study from Pretoria, South Africa	3
Arterial stiffness is associated with oxidative stress and endothelial activation among persons with treated HIV in Zambia	2
Introduction to the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society harm reduction guidelines	2
Intracranial pressure management in patients with human immunodeficiency virus-associated cryptococcal meningitis in a resource-constrained setting	2
Incidence of hepatitis C virus infection among people living with HIV: An Egyptian cohort study	2
Sexual risk compensation following voluntary medical male circumcision: Results from a prospective cohort study amongst human immunodeficiency virus-negative adult men in Botswana	2
COVID-19 crisis effect on HIV service delivery in Egypt: Hard times or blessings in disguise?	2
Antiretroviral therapy under the wing of the COVID-19 epidemic: One look, and different solutions	2
Empowering parents for human immunodeficiency virus prevention: Health and sex education at home	2
A rapid review and synthesis of the effectiveness of programmes initiating community-based antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa	2
A case series of emtricitabine-induced pure red cell aplasia	2
Predictors of impaired pulmonary function in people living with HIV in an urban African setting	2
Depression, sleep quality and condom use amongst Iranian people living with human immunodeficiency virus	2
The influence of HIV infection and antiretroviral treatment on pulmonary function in individuals in an urban setting in sub-Saharan Africa	2
Immune activation and arterial stiffness in lean adults with HIV on antiretroviral therapy	2
Paediatric antiretroviral overdose: A case report from a resource-poor area	2
Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake, adherence, and adverse events among South African men who have sex with men and transgender women	2
Symptomatic gallstones and HIV in black South African women: Changing trends of gallstone disease?	2
Incidence of cardiometabolic diseases in a Lesotho HIV cohort: Evidence for policy decision-making	2
Low-level viraemia despite emergence of dolutegravir-resistant variants	2
Bone outcomes in virally suppressed youth with HIV switching to tenofovir disoproxil fumarate	2
Cervical human papillomavirus prevalence, risk factors and outcomes in a cohort of HIV-infected women in Harare, Zimbabwe	2

The association between serum vitamin D and body composition in South African HIV-infected women	2
Ethically acceptable consent approaches to adolescent research in South Africa	2
Urine lipoarabinomannan for rapid tuberculosis diagnosis in HIV-infected adult outpatients in Khayelitsha	2
The sexual and reproductive health needs of young people living with HIV in Gauteng, South Africa	2
Sexual function after voluntary medical male circumcision for human immunodeficiency virus prevention: Results from a programmatic delivery setting in Botswana	2
CD4 testing after initiation of antiretroviral therapy: Analysis of routine data from the South African HIV programme	2
Capacity of antiretroviral therapy sites for managing NCDs in people living with HIV in Zimbabwe	2
The spectrum of electrolyte abnormalities in black African people living with human immunodeficiency virus and diabetes mellitus at Edendale Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa	2
Where are the children? Case finding in 5–14-year-olds living with HIV in Johannesburg	2
Southern African HIV Clinicians Society guidelines for solid organ transplantation in human immunodeficiency virus: An evidence-based framework for human immunodeficiency virus-positive donors and rec	2
Pharmacogenetics of tenofovir and emtricitabine penetration into cerebrospinal fluid	2
Optimised paediatric antiretroviral treatment to achieve the 95-95-95 goals	2
Late diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus infection is linked to higher rates of epilepsy in children in the Eastern Cape of South Africa	2
Nevirapine-induced Stevens-Johnson syndrome in children living with HIV in South Africa	1
Multiple opportunistic infections (pulmonary tuberculosis, Mycobacterium avium complex and parvovirus B19) in a single patient	1
COVID-19 severity and in-hospital mortality in an area with high HIV prevalence	1
Neural tube defects in the Free State province from 2012 to 2016. Is there an increase?	1
Human rights violations among men who have sex with men and transgender people in South Africa	1
Digitally supported HIV self-testing increases facility-based HIV testing capacity in Ekurhuleni, South Africa	1
Tracking adverse drug reactions and medication errors in the Central Chronic Medicine Dispensing and Distribution (CCMDD) programme in South Africa	1
Continuous quality improvement in HIV and TB services at selected healthcare facilities in South Africa	1
Utilisation of cervical cancer screening among women living with HIV at Kenya’s national referral hospital	1
Characteristics and outcomes of older people on antiretroviral therapy in Tlokwe Clinics, South Africa	1
Impact of a delayed diagnosis of vulvar cancer and its association with HIV infection: A 4-year review at a tertiary hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	1
Estimating qualification and factors associated with third-line antiretroviral therapy referral in the Western Cape	1
The initial intravenous treatment of a human immunodeficiency virus-infected child with complicated abdominal tuberculosis	1
Erratum: Southern African HIV Clinicians Society 2022 guideline for the management of sexually transmitted infections: Moving towards best practice	1
HIV viral load suppression before and after COVID-19 in Kinshasa and Haut Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo	1
Human rights violations among men who have sex with men and transgender people in South Africa	1
Prevalence of incidental premature cardiac calcifications in an HIV-infected South African population using conventional computed tomography chest radiography	1
The influence of smoking and HIV infection on pulmonary function	1
Evaluation of the impact of delayed centrifugation on the diagnostic performance of serum creatinine as a baseline measure of renal function before antiretroviral treatment	1
Rechallenge after anti-tuberculosis drug-induced liver injury in a high HIV prevalence cohort	1
Evaluation of an SMS-based mHealth intervention to enhance early infant diagnosis follow-up testing and assessment of postnatal prophylaxis	1
The evolution and adoption of World Health Organization policy guidelines on antiretroviral therapy initiation in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review	1
The clinical and demographic profile of women living with HIV admitted to the acute unit at Stikland Psychiatric Hospital	1