Publications

Welcome to the HLB-SIMPLe publication page! Here you will find a comprehensive collection of scholarly works stemming from our six late-stage implementation science projects and research coordinating center.

Explore our diverse array of research articles, ranging from study design protocols to training strategies, as we strive to improve cardiovascular health outcomes in populations affected by HIV in Africa through integrated healthcare.

Botswana

Designing an implementation science clinical trial to integrate hypertension and cardiovascular diseases care into existing HIV services package in Botswana (InterCARE) – Trials, July 2024.

Quantitative outcomes of a type 2 single arm hybrid effectiveness implementation pilot study for hypertension-HIV integration in Botswana – Implementation Science Communications, July 2024.

A mixed methods approach identifying facilitators and barriers to guide adaptations to InterCARE strategies: an integrated HIV and hypertension care model in Botswana – Implementation Science Communications, June 2024.

Mozambique

Scaling-up and scaling-out the Systems Analysis and Improvement Approach to optimize the hypertension diagnosis and care cascade for HIV infected individuals (SCALE SAIA-HTN): a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial – Implementation Science Communications, March 2024.

Nigeria

Moving forward: scaling-up the integration of an HIV and hypertension program in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria – Global Health Research & Policy, September 2024.

Assets for integrating task-sharing strategies for hypertension within HIV clinics: Stakeholder’s perspectives using the PEN-3 cultural model – PloS One, January 2024.

Building capacity of community nurses to strengthen the management of uncomplicated hypertension in persons living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries – Global Heart Journal, 2023.

Study design and protocol of a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial using a practical implementation strategy as a model for hypertension-HIV integration – the MAP-IT trial – Implementation Science, May 2023.

Early stakeholder engagement lessons from managing hypertension among people living with human-immunodeficiency virus: an integrated model (MAP-IT) – European Heart Journal, March 2022.

South Africa

Integrating hypertension detection and management in HIV care in South Africa: protocol for a stepped-wedged cluster randomized effectiveness-implementation hybrid trial – Implementation Science Communications, October 2024.

Understanding barriers and facilitators to integrated HIV and hypertension care in South Africa – Implementation Science Communications, August 2024.

Uganda

Current out of pocket care costs among HIV and hypertension co-morbid patients in urban and peri-urban Uganda – PLOS Global Public Health, September 2024.

Zambia

Evaluating a multifaceted implementation strategy and package of evidence-based interventions based on WHO PEN for people living with HIV and cardiometabolic conditions in Lusaka, Zambia: protocol for the TASKPEN hybrid effectiveness-implementation stepped wedge cluster randomized trial – Implementation Science Communications, June 2024.

Research Coordinating Center

Dissemination and implementation research coordination and training to improve cardiovascular health in people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: the research coordinating center of the HLB-SIMPLe Alliance – Implementation Science Communications, June 2024.

Developing ethical standards for dissemination and implementation research: a roadmap for consensus and guidance – Implementation Science Communications, November 2023.

Collaborative Work

Primary care to further improve vertical HIV programming outcomes: From spillover to strategy – PLOS Medicine, August 2024.

Economic evaluation of implementation science outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review – Implementation Science, November 2022.

Integrating non-communicable diseases care into HIV treatment in Africa: Cross-cutting implementation strategies across six countries (poster) – Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health, December 2023.