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Assessing nurses’ adherence to the see-and-treat guidelines of Botswana's national cervical cancer prevention programme

Johnson, Lauren G.; Ramogola-Masire, Doreen; Teitelman, Anne M.; Jemmott, John B.; Buttenheim, Alison M. (American Association for Cancer Research, https://www.aacr.org/, 2019-12-18)

The see-and-treat approach for cervical cancer screening (VIA followed by immediate cryotherapy) was first pilot tested in Botswana in 2009. Botswana’s Ministry of Health and the Botswana-UPenn Partnership collaborated to ...

Availability of WHO essential medicines for cancer treatment in Botswana

Martei, Yehoda M.; Chiyapo, Sebathu; Ramogola-Masire, Doreen; Dryden-Peterson, Scott M.; Shulman, Lawrence N.; Tapela, Neo (American Society of Clinical Oncology, http://www.asco.org/, 2018-01-23)

Purpose Stock outs of cancer drugs are potentially fatal but have not been systematically studied in low- and middle-income countries. The aim of this study was to determine the availability and alignment of the Botswana ...

Co-infection with HPV types from the same species provides natural cross-protection from progression to cervical cancer

Sobota, Rafal S.; Ramogola-Masire, Doreen; Williams, Scott M.; Zetola, Nicola M. (BioMed Central (BMC), http://www.infectagentscancer.com/, 2014-08)

Background: The worldwide administration of bivalent and quadrivalent HPV vaccines has resulted in cross-protection against non-vaccine HPV types. Infection with multiple HPV types may offer similar cross-protection in the ...

Factors related to advanced stage of cancer presentation in Botswana

Anakwenze, Chidinma; Bhatia, Rohini; Rate, William; Bakwenabatsile, Lame; Ngoni, Kebatshabile; Rayne, Sarah; Dhillon, Preet; Narasimhamurthy, Mohan; Ho-Foster, Ari; Ramogola-Masire, Doreen; Grover, Surbhi (American Society of Clinical Oncology, https://beta.asco.org/, 2018-12)

Purpose: Botswana, a country with a high prevalence of HIV, has an increasing incidence of cancer related mortality in the post–antiretroviral therapy era. Despite universal access to free healthcare, the majority of ...

Botswana's HIV response: policies, context, and future directions

Ramogola-Masire, Doreen; Poku, Ohemaa; Mazhani, Loeto; Ndwapi, Ndwapi; Misra, Supriya; Arscott-Mills, Tonya; Blank, Lilo; Ho-Foster, Ari; Becker, Timothy D.; Yang, Lawrence (Wiley, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/, 2020-01-17)

This brief report describes key periods in the history of the national public health response to the HIV epidemic in Botswana. It reveals the context leading to the development of HIV policies presently in place and current ...

HIV infection and survival among women with cervical cancer

Drysen-Peterson, Scott; Bvochora-Nsingo, Memory; Suneja, Gita; Efstathiou, Jason, A.; Grover, Surbhi; Chiyapo, Sebathu; Ramogola-Masire, Doreen; Kebabonye-Pusoentsi, Malebogo; Clayman, Rebecca; Mapes, Abigail, C.; Tapela, Neo; Asmelash, Aida; Medhin, Heluf; Viswanathan, Akila, N.; Russell, Anthony H.; Lin, Lilie, L.; Kayembe, Mukendi K.A.; Mmalane, Mompati; Randall, Thomas C.; Chabner, Bruce; Lockman, Shahin (American Society of Clinical Oncology, https://beta.asco.org/, 2016-08-29)

Purpose Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among the 20 million women with HIV worldwide. We sought to determine whether HIV infection affected survival in women with invasive cervical cancer. Patients ...

Explaining disparities in oncology health systems delays and stage at diagnosis between men and women in Botswana: A cohort study

Iyer, Hari S.; Kohler, Racquel E.; Ramogola-Masire, Doreen; Brown, Carolyn; Molebatsi, Kesaobaka; Grover, Surbhi; Kablay, Irene; Bvochora-Nsingo, Memory; Efstathiou, Jason, A.; Lockman, Shahin; Tapela, Neo; Dryden-Peterson, Scott L. (Public Library of Science, http://www.plosone.org/, 2019-06-06)

Purpose Men in Botswana present with more advanced cancer than women, leading to poorer outcomes. We sought to explain sex-specific differences in time to and stage at treatment initiation. Methods Cancer patients who ...