Zvitambo Institute for Maternal and Child Health Research

Recent papers from Zvitambo Institute for Maternal and Child Health Research

1. Barriers to uptake of postnatal interventions for prevention of vertical HIV transmission in rural sub-Saharan Africa: a narrative reviewAIDS Care · 2026
2. Body composition of children born HIV-exposed uninfected in rural ZimbabwePLoS ONE · 2026
3. Beyond the Cox model: a log-logistic accelerated failure time frailty model for analysing first birth timing in ZimbabweBMC Medical Research Methodology · 2026
4. CMV viraemia is associated with mortality among children with HIV starting antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan AfricaClinical Infectious Diseases · 2026
5. Intestinal Permeability Is Associated with Mortality and Readmission in Children Hospitalized with Severe Acute MalnutritionJournal of Nutrition · 2026
6. Pooled estimate of anticoagulation control with warfarin therapy among adult patients in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysisThrombosis Journal · 2026
7. Keeping Older people healthy, deSigning and evaluating effective HEalth Services to maintain functional AbIlity (KOSHESAI); study protocol for a multimethod, prospective, hybrid implementation-effectiveness studyNIHR Open Research · 2026
8. Haemoglobin concentration thresholds that discriminate functional outcomes among children aged 6–30 months in eight countries: a pooled analysis of individual participant dataBMJ Global Health · 2026
9. Untangling the complex relationship between HIV-exposure and tuberculosis in children: a narrative reviewThe Lancet Global Health · 2026
10. Neurodevelopment in children exposed to antenatal CMV viraemia in a high HIV prevalence areaThe Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2026
11. Late antenatal care initiation and its associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care at public hospitals of Kellem Wollega zone, Western Ethiopia: a facility-based cross-sectional studyBMC Health Services Research · 2026
12. Systemic Inflammation and Growth in Children Born to Mothers With and Without HIV in Rural ZimbabweOpen Forum Infectious Diseases · 2026
13. Recent Choline Intake Is Inversely Associated with Inflammation in Pregnancy – Evidence from the Canadian APrON CohortJournal of Nutrition · 2025
14. Prevalence of Large‐for‐Gestational Age and Macrosomia Among Livebirths in 23 Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries Between 2000 and 2021: An Individual Participant Data AnalysisBJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology · 2025
15. Modeling Time to First Birth among Reproductive-Age Women in Zimbabwe Using Accelerated Failure Time and Frailty Models2025
16. Temporal Dynamics of HIV Testing as a Predictor of Facility Delivery among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW): Evidence from the Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Surveys (2005–2015)2025
17. Biological landscape of acute illness in children in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia2025
18. Is health, growth and development impaired in children who are Hepatitis B-exposed but uninfected?PLOS Global Public Health · 2025
19. The Impact of Early-Life Growth on Long-Term Cardiometabolic and Neurocognitive Outcomes in High-Income Countries: A Neglected Public Health ProblemNutrition Reviews · 2025
20. Dignified care and associated factors among adult patients admitted to Jimma Medical Center, south west Ethiopia, 2023BMC Health Services Research · 2025