Wim Delva, PhD

Research Associate

Wim is a medical doctor and epidemiologist, he has joint research appointment at the International Centre for Reproductive Health at Ghent University in Belgium, and the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He is passionate about applied statistics and epidemiology related to the HIV epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa.

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8054-1904

Recent publications

It is the network, stupid: a populations sexual network connectivity determines its STI prevalence
Kenyon CR, Delva W

F1000Research

(2019)

https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.17148.2
Differential sexual network connectivity offers a parsimonious explanation for population-level variations in the prevalence of bacterial vaginosis: a data-driven, model-supported hypothesis
Kenyon CR, Delva W, Brotman RM

BMC Women's Health

(2019)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-018-0703-0
The role of age-mixing patterns in HIV transmission dynamics: novel hypotheses from a field study in Cape Town, South Africa
Beauclair RN, Hens N, Delva W

Epidemics

(2018)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2018.05.006
Feasibility, acceptability and potential sustainability of a ‘diagonal’ approach to health services for female sex workers in Mozambique
Lafort Y, Ismael de Melo MS, Lessitala F, Griffin S, Chersich M, Delva W

BMC Health Services Research

(2018)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3555-2
Effect of a diagonal intervention on uptake of HIV and reproductive health services by female sex workers in three sub-Saharan African cities
Lafort Y, Greener L, Lessitala F, Chabeda S, Greener R, Beksinska M, Gichangi M, Griffin S, Smit JA, Chersich M, Delva W

Tropical Medicine and International Health

(2018)

https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.13072
Impact of a “diagonal” intervention on uptake of sexual and reproductive health services by female Sex workers in Mozambique: a mixed-methods implementation study
Lafort Y, Lessitala F, De Melo MSI, Griffin S, Chersich M, Delva W

Frontiers in Public Health

(2018)

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2018.00109
Partner age differences and associated sexual risk behaviours among adolescent girls and young women in a cash transfer programme for schooling in Malawi
Beauclair RN, Dushoff J, Delva W

BMC Public Health

(2018)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5327-7
Impact of early initiation versus national standard of care of antiretroviral therapy in Swaziland’s public sector health system: study protocol for stepped-wedge randomized trial
Walsh FJ, Bärnighausen T, Delva W, Fleming Y, Khumalo G, Lejeune C, Mazibuko S, Mlambo CK, Reis R, Spiegelman D, Zwane M, Okello V

Trials

(2017)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-017-2128-8
Sexual and reproductive health services utilization by female sex workers is context-specific: results from a cross-sectional survey in India, Kenya, Mozambique and South Africa
Lafort Y, Greener R, Roy A, Greener L, Ombidi W, Lessitala F, Skordis-Worrall J, Beksinska M, Gichangi P, Reza-Paul S, Smit JA, Chersich M, Delva W

Reproductive Health

(2017)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-017-0277-6
The transcontinental scientist
Delva W

Science

(2017)

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.355.6322.318