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Nicola Desmond

University of London ·
Area of research
Infectious Diseases · General Health Professions
Research interest
Research interests include HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, Global Maternal and Child Health, and Ethics in Clinical Research.
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3,262
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166
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Recent publications

Are facility service delivery models meeting the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa? A qualitative evidence synthesis
BMC Health Services Research 2025cited by 8position: middledoi
Factors influencing uptake of COVID-19 diagnostics in Sub-Saharan Africa: a rapid scoping review
PLoS ONE 2025cited by 3position: lastdoi
A Multicomponent Intervention to Improve Maternal Infection Outcomes
New England Journal of Medicine 2025cited by 3position: middledoi
Experience of social harms among female sex workers following HIV self-test distribution in Malawi: results of a cohort study
BMC Infectious Diseases 2024cited by 3position: lastdoi
Combined interventions for the testing and treatment of HIV and schistosomiasis among fishermen in Malawi: a three-arm, cluster-randomised trial
The Lancet Global Health 2024cited by 3position: middledoi
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
Vaccines 2023cited by 16position: middledoi
‘Guidance should have been there 15 years ago’ research stakeholders’ perspectives on ancillary care in the global south: a case study of Malawi
BMC Medical Ethics 2023cited by 5position: middledoi
“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
BMC Infectious Diseases 2022cited by 10position: middledoi
A chronological discourse analysis of ancillary care provision in guidance documents for research conduct in the global south
BMC Medical Ethics 2022cited by 10position: middledoi
A network of empirical ethics teams embedded in research programmes across multiple sites: opportunities and challenges in contributing to COVID-19 research and responses
Wellcome Open Research 2022cited by 3position: middledoi
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
The Lancet Global Health 2021cited by 56position: middledoi
Effect of community-led delivery of HIV self-testing on HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy initiation in Malawi: A cluster-randomised trial
PLoS Medicine 2021cited by 36position: middledoi
‘Too old to test?’: A life course approach to HIV-related risk and self-testing among midlife-older adults in Malawi
BMC Public Health 2021cited by 20position: middledoi
Effect of door-to-door distribution of HIV self-testing kits on HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy initiation: a cluster randomised trial in Malawi
BMJ Global Health 2021cited by 19position: middledoi
What do we know about ancillary care practices in East and Southern Africa? A systematic review and meta-synthesis
Wellcome Open Research 2021cited by 7position: middledoi
Exploring social harms during distribution of HIV self‐testing kits using mixed‐methods approaches in Malawi
Journal of the International AIDS Society 2019cited by 70position: middledoi
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
BMC Infectious Diseases 2019cited by 36position: middledoi
Post-test adverse psychological effects and coping mechanisms amongst HIV self-tested individuals living in couples in urban Blantyre, Malawi
PLoS ONE 2019cited by 13position: lastdoi
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 randomized evaluations
BMC Public Health 2018cited by 40position: middledoi
Discordance, Disclosure and Normative Gender Roles: Barriers to Couple Testing Within a Community-Level HIV Self-Testing Intervention in Urban Blantyre, Malawi
AIDS and Behavior 2018cited by 31position: lastdoi
Pressured <scp>HIV</scp> testing “in the name of love”: a mixed methods analysis of pressured <scp>HIV</scp> testing among men who have sex with men in China
Journal of the International AIDS Society 2018cited by 19position: middledoi
Measuring sexual behaviour in Malawi: a triangulation of three data collection instruments
BMC Public Health 2018cited by 16position: firstdoi
Acceptability of woman‐delivered HIV self‐testing to the male partner, and additional interventions: a qualitative study of antenatal care participants in Malawi
Journal of the International AIDS Society 2017cited by 144position: middledoi
TB and HIV stigma compounded by threatened masculinity: implications for TB health-care seeking in Malawi
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2017cited by 44position: middledoi
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
Trials 2017cited by 28position: middledoi
Coercion and HIV Self-Testing in Men Who Have Sex With Men: Implementation Data From a Cross-Sectional Survey in China
JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 2017cited by 25position: middledoi
Uptake contexts and perceived impacts of HIV testing and counselling among adults in East and Southern Africa: A meta-ethnographic review
PLoS ONE 2017cited by 21position: lastdoi
Treatment-Seeking for Tuberculosis-Suggestive Symptoms: A Reflection on the Role of Human Agency in the Context of Universal Health Coverage in Malawi
PLoS ONE 2016cited by 25position: middledoi
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
PLoS Medicine 2015cited by 378position: middledoi
‘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
Anthropology and Medicine 2015cited by 10position: lastdoi

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Frequent collaborators

Elizabeth L. Corbett · Faculty of Public Health26 papers (2012–2025)Moses Kumwenda · University of South Carolina15 papers (2014–2024)Augustine Choko · University of Liverpool15 papers (2012–2025) · 10 papers (2018–2025)Cheryl Johnson · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine9 papers (2018–2024)Katherine Fielding · Austin Hospital9 papers (2017–2024) · 7 papers (2018–2022)Miriam Taegtmeyer · Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine7 papers (2013–2022)Pitchaya Indravudh · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine6 papers (2018–2024)Jeremiah Chikovore · Royal Tropical Institute6 papers (2014–2019)Wezzie Lora · Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine5 papers (2017–2025)David G. Lalloo · Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine5 papers (2012–2018)Janet Seeley · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine5 papers (2018–2023)Melissa Neuman · University of London5 papers (2018–2024) · 5 papers (2019–2021) · 5 papers (2012–2015)Peter MacPherson · University of Liverpool5 papers (2012–2015)Rachel Baggaley · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine4 papers (2019–2021) · 4 papers (2013–2017) · 4 papers (2012–2018)