Alison Wringe BSc BA MSc PhD

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I graduated from the University of New South Wales in Australia in 1999 with a BSc in Mathematics and a BA in French, and then worked for three years with a medical NGO in both Africa and Asia, coordinating TB, HIV and malaria projects.

I came to LSHTM in 2002 for the MSc in Public Health in Developing Countries, and subsequently stayed at the School to work on the development of polio vaccination policies for a WHO-funded project. Following this, I undertook my PhD at LSHTM using quantitative and qualitative methods to analyse access to HIV care and antiretroviral therapy among HIV-positive adults in rural Tanzania. This research took place within the context of a long-term population-level HIV cohort study that has been monitoring the dynamics of HIV infection since 1994, and evaluating the uptake and impact of antiretroviral therapy (ART) since the start of the national treatment programme.

Since completing my PhD in 2007, I have continued working for the TAZAMA project, and commenced a Medical Research Council fellowship in Population Health Science in 2010.

Affiliation

• Department of Population Studies

Teaching

I am currently a tutor for the distance-learning MSc in Epidemiology and I co-organise the module on Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Diseases (EP301). I also teach on several of the in-house epidemiology and statistics study units, and am a guest lecturer at the Centre for Population and Development (CEPED) in Paris.

I am currently co-supervising three PhD students who are working on the integration of HIV and sexual and reproductive health services in Swaziland, the impact of antiretroviral therapy on sexual behaviour, and the role of voluntary counseling and testing services in HIV prevention in Tanzania.

 

Research

My research focuses on exploring the role of individual, social and community factors in access to HIV services including HIV testing, home-based care and clinical care, using quantitative and qualitative research methods. I am also working on estimating coverage with HIV services and ART among HIV-infected persons in rural Tanzania, and assessing the impact of using HIV testing and treatment services on sexual behaviour, fertility intentions and HIV incidence. My other research interests include evaluations of maternal, and sexual and reproductive health interventions including those for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

• Selected publications

• Delivering comprehensive home-based care programmes for HIV: a review of lessons learned and challenges ahead in the era of antiretroviral therapy.

  Wringe, A.; Cataldo, F.; Stevenson, N.; Fakoya, A.;

  Health Policy Plan, 2010;

• Comparative assessment of the quality of age-at-event reporting in three HIV cohort studies in sub-Saharan Africa.

  Wringe, A.; Cremin, I.; Todd, J.; McGrath, N.; Kasamba, I.; Herbst, K.; Mushore, P.; Zaba, B.; Slaymaker, E.;

  Sex Transm Infect, 2009; 85 Suppl 1:i56-63

• Doubts, denial and divine intervention: understanding delayed attendance and poor retention rates at a HIV treatment programme in rural Tanzania.

  Wringe, A.; Roura, M.; Urassa, M.; Busza, J.; Athanas, V.; Zaba, B.;

  AIDS Care, 2009; 21(5):632-7

• "Just like fever": a qualitative study on the impact of antiretroviral provision on the normalisation of HIV in rural Tanzania and its implications for prevention

  Roura, M.; Wringe, A.; Busza, J.; Nhandi, B.; Mbata, D.; Zaba, B.; Urassa, M.

  BMC Int Health Hum Rights, 2009; 9(1):22

• From HIV diagnosis to treatment: evaluation of a referral system to promote and monitor access to antiretroviral therapy in rural Tanzania.

  Nsigaye, R.; Wringe, A.; Roura, M.; Kalluvya, S.; Urassa, M.; Busza, J.; Zaba, B.;

  J Int AIDS Soc, 2009; 12(1):31

• Uptake of HIV voluntary counselling and testing services in rural Tanzania: implications for effective HIV prevention and equitable access to treatment.

  Wringe, A.; Isingo, R.; Urassa, M.; Maiseli, G.; Manyalla, R.; Changalucha, J.; Mngara, J.; Kalluvya, S.; Zaba, B.;

  Trop Med Int Health, 2008; 13(3):319-27

• Estimating the extent of vaccine-derived poliovirus infection.

  Wringe, A.; Fine, P.E.; Sutter, R.W.; Kew, O.M.;

  PLoS ONE, 2008; 3(10):e3433

• Use of data from HIV counselling and testing services for HIV surveillance in Africa

  Mwaluko, G.; Wringe, A.; Todd, J.; Glynn, J.R.; Crampin, A.C.; Jaffar, S.; Kalluvya, S.; Zaba, B.

  Lancet, 2007; 369(9561):612-613

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