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Cheryl Johnson

World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme

Geneva

Switzerland

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

17

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Scholarly Papers (17)

1.

Risk-Based Screening Tools to Optimise HIV Testing Services: A Systematic Review

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Jun 2021
Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Monash University - Central Clinical School, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, Monash University - Central Clinical School, Monash University - Central Clinical School, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme and World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme
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Sustaining Progress in HIV in Africa Through Enabling of Self-Care: Model-Predicted Effects of Local Free Provision of HIV Self-Tests and Antiretroviral Drugs

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 May 2025
University College London - Institute for Global Health, African Community Advisory Board, University College London - Institute for Global Health, University College London - Institute for Global Health, University College London, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, University of the Witwatersrand - Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, University of South Africa (UNISA), Centre for Sexual Health and HIV AIDS Research (CeSHHAR) Zimbabwe and University of York
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HIV, PrEP, PEP, ART, Africa, modelling, cost-effectiveness, HIV self-tests, self-care, pharmacy, community-based health worker.

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Heterogeneity of False Reactivity Profiles of HIV Assays While Optimizing National HIV Testing Algorithms: Findings from a Multi-Country Analysis

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 24 Jan 2025
Epigreen, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, Government of Cameroon - Ministry of Public Health Cameroon, Chantal BIYA International Reference Centre for Research on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Management (CIRCB), Government of the Republic of Armenia - Ministry of Health, Republic of Armenia, Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Ministry of Health Zambia, Ministry of Health, South Sudan, Government of Mali - Ministry of Health, Government of Mali - Ministry of Health, Department of Health, Philippines, University of N’Djamena, University of N’Djamena, Government of Kenya - Kenya Ministry of Health, Government of the Republic of Ghana - Ministry of Health, Ministry of Health, Lesotho, Government of Tanzania - Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Université de Kinshasa, Ministry of Health, Burkina Faso, World Health Organization (WHO) - World Health Organization, Geneva, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, Epigreen and World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme
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HIV rapid diagnostic tests, False reactivity, False positivity, HIV testing strategies and algorithms, Heterogeneity

4.

Social Network-Based Approaches to HIV Testing: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 27 Jul 2023
Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, South African Medical Research Council - Health Systems Research Unit, Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme and Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
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HIV, testing, key populations, general population, social network

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Successes and Setbacks in Dual HIV/Syphilis Test Scale-Up Strategies: Lessons Learned for Testing Integration in an Era of Declining Resources

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 Jun 2025
University of Washington, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Clinton Health Access Initiative, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Evidence Action, Evidence Action, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme
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HIV, syphilis, testing, dual HIV/syphilis, triple elimination, integration

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Linkage to Care and Prevention after HIV Self-Testing: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 08 Feb 2024
Monash University - Central Clinical School, Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Monash University, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Monash University, Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre and Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
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HIV, self-testing, linkage, confirmatory test, ART, care

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Balancing Accuracy, Accessibility, and Cost: HIV Testing Strategies for Long-Acting Injectable Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: A Systematic Review of Rapid, Laboratory-Based Immunoassay and Nucleic Acid Testing Strategies

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 04 Jun 2025
Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, University of Melbourne - Department of Microbiology, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, Independent, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO), World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, Pan American Health Organization, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, South African Medical Research Council - Health Systems Research Unit, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - UCLA Center for Clinical AIDS Research and Education and Alfred Health
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injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis, cabotegavir, lenacapavir, HIV testing, rapid diagnostic test, nucleic acid test, point-of-care test, HIV self-testing

8.

HIV, Hepatitis, and Syphilis Self-Testing Among Adolescents and Young Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 29 Aug 2024
Monash University, Monash University, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, Monash University, Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, World Health Organization (WHO) - World Health Organization for Africa and Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
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HIV, Hepatitis, Syphilis, Self-testing, Adolescents, Young adults

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Caregiver-Assisted Testing with HIV Self-Test Kits for Children 18 Months and Older: A GRADE Systematic Review

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 29 Jan 2024
Independent, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, Independent, World Health Organization (WHO), World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme and World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme
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HIV self-testing, HIV testing, paediatric HIV testing, systematic review

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Machine Learning for Personalised Risk Assessment of HIV, Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, and Chlamydia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 10 Jan 2025
Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO), Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre and Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
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Digital Health, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, AI, Sexually Transmitted Infections, STI, HIV, Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, Chlamydia

11.

Improved Rapid Diagnostic Tests to Detect Syphilis and Yaws: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 15 Mar 2022
Monash University, Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - Department of Clinical Research, Burnet Institute, Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol - Skin Neglected Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections Section, World Health Organization (WHO), World Health Organization (WHO) and Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
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syphilis, yaws, rapid diagnostic test

12.

Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 Self-Testing Strategies in Schools: A Multi-Country Modelling Analysis

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 27 May 2023
Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, University of Amsterdam - Department of Medical Microbiology & Infection Prevention, Boston University - Department of Global Health, Boston University - Department of Global Health, Boston University - Department of Global Health, University of Amsterdam - Department of Medical Microbiology, the global alliance for diagnostics - FIND, University of the Witwatersrand - Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, University of Amsterdam - Department of Medical Microbiology, the global alliance for diagnostics - FIND, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention, Boston University - Department of Biostatistics, University of Amsterdam - Department of Medical Microbiology and the global alliance for diagnostics - FIND
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SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, Rapid antigen testing, Ag-RDT, Self-testing, Modelling, Cost-effectiveness, Schools

13.

Determining the Testing Frequency for Sexually Transmitted Infections for People Who Use HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 26 Sep 2022
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne - Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Public Health Service of Amsterdam - Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Southern California - Keck School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) - China-Australia Joint Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
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HIV, PrEP, pre-exposure prophylaxis, sexually transmitted infections, screening

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Impact of Hepatitis C Virus Self-Testing on Testing Uptake within a House-to-House Micro-Elimination Project in Pakistan

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 31 May 2025
Aga Khan University, the global alliance for diagnostics - FIND, Aga Khan University, Aga Khan University, the global alliance for diagnostics - FIND, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO), World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, the global alliance for diagnostics - FIND, Aga Khan University and Global Health Diagnostics
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Hepatitis C Virus, Self-Testing, Micro-Elimination, Pakistan, Testing, Diagnostics

15.

HIV Prevalence Among International Migrants: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 07 Jun 2022
Monash University - Central Clinical School, Monash University - Central Clinical School, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre and Alfred Health - Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
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HIV, AIDS, immigrants, migrants, native, native-born, prevalence

16.

Social Network Distribution of HIV Self-Tests Among MSM in Australia

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 19 Nov 2025
Ying Zhang, Cheryl Johnson, Michael W. Traeger and See PDF
Monash University, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, Burnet Institute and Please see PDF for full list of authors & affiliations
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HIV, self-test, men who have sex with men, social network, peer

17.

Using Routine Programmatic Data to Estimate the Population-Level Impacts of HIV Self-Testing: The Example of the Atlas Program in Cote D’Ivoire

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 04 Feb 2022
University of Paris - Centre Population & Dévelopement, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, Solidarité Thérapeutique et Initiatives pour la Santé, Programme National de Lutte contre le Sida, Solidarité Thérapeutique et Initiatives pour la Santé, Imperial College London - Medical Research Council Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, McGill University - Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health, Imperial College London - Medical Research Council Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Université de Paris - Centre Population & Développement, Solidarité Thérapeutique et Initiatives pour la Santé, World Health Organization (WHO) - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme, Programme National de Lutte contre le Sida, Université de Paris - Centre Population & Développement and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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HIV, HIV self-testing, access to HIV testing, conventional testing, diagnoses, antiretroviral treatment, Key populations, vulnerable populations, ATLAS project, programmatic data, triangulation of data, time series regression, West Africa, Côte d'Ivoire