Newton Kumwenda
Field Director
Academic Degrees
Research and Professional Experience
My main interest is in Infectious Diseases in Developing countries; HIV vaccines; microbicides, prevention of breastmilk HIV transmission, design of community based HIV prevention studies.
Keywords
Developing countries, HIV vaccine Resesearch
Selected Publications
1. Taha TE, Kumwenda NI, Hoover DR, Kafulafula G, Nkhoma C, Nour S, Chen S, Liomba G, Miotti PG, Broadhead RL. Nevirapine and zidovudine at birth to reduce perinatal transmission of HIV in an African setting. Journal of the American Medical Association 2004, 292(2): 202 – 209.
2. Taha E. Taha, Newton Kumwenda, Donald Hoover, Robert Biggar, Robin Broadhead et al. Use of a Short Post-exposure Prophylaxis to the newly-born to reduce Transmission of HIV from Mother to Infant: The NVAZ Randomized clinical trial (The Lancet; 362; October 11, 2003: 1171-1177)
3. Kumwenda N, Miotti PG, Taha TE, Broadhead R, Biggar RJ, Jackson JB, Melikian G, Semba RD.Antenatal vitamin A supplementation increases birth weight and decreases anemia among infants born to human immunodeficiency virus-infected women in Malawi. Clin Infect Dis. 2002 Sep 1;35(5):618-24
4. Taha E. Taha, Newton Kumwenda, Donald Hoover, Robert Biggar, Robin Broadhead et al. Association of HIV-1 infection load and CD4 lymphocytes count with mortality among untreated African Children over one year of age. AIDS 2000, 14:453-459
5. Richard Semba, Newton Kumwenda , Taha E. Taha, Donald Hoover, Thomas Quinn et al. Mastitis and Immunological factors in Breast milk of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Women Journal of Human Lactation 1999, 15( 4):301-306.
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