Doctor Nosisa Sipambo

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Nosisa is a Paediatric Infectious Diseases subspecialist based at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital (CHBAH), Soweto.
She heads the Paediatric Infectious Subspecialty, as well as the Harriet Shezi Paediatric Antiretroviral Therapy Clinic at CHBAH.
She is passionate about health systems strengthening.

Details

 Email: nosisa.sipambo@wits.ac.za
Office: 011 933 9629
Mobile: 078 968 4638

Clinical Duties

In-patient: Consult on infectious diseases/ primary immunodeficiency/ infection prevention and control-related cases. Cover general paediatric ward admissions
Outpatient: see patients at Harriet Shezi Children’s Clinic. Special interests are neonatal ART; virologic failure; diagnostic challenges and HIV drug resistance

Research

Current research activities:
HIV-related research

Publications

Recent publications (last 5 years):

1. Sabelle Jallow, Shabir A. Madhi, Richard Madimabe, Nosisa Sipambo, Avy Violari, Udai Kala, Karen Petersen, Sanushka Naidoo, Charl Verwey, David P. Moore, Marta C. Nunes. Immunogenicity of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine among children with underlying medical conditions. Vaccine 2017

2. Murray TY, Sherman GG, Nakwa F, MacLeod WB, Sipambo N, Velaphi S, Carmona S. Field Evaluation of performance of Alere and Cepheid Qualitative HIV assays for paediatric point-of-care testing in an academic Hospital in Soweto, South Africa. J Clin Microbiology, November 2017

3. L Fairlie, J. Bernheimer, N Sipambo, C Fick, L Kuhn. Lamivudine monotherapy in children and adolescents: The devil is in the detail. SAMJ 12/2017; 107 (12):1055 - 1057

4. Patten G, Schomaker M, Davies MA, Rabie H, van Zyl G, Technau K, Eley B, Boulle A, Van Dyke RB, Patel K, Sipambo N, Wood R, Tanser F, Giddy J, Cotton M, Nuttall J, Essack G, Karalius B, Seage G, Sawry S, Egger M, Fairlie L, for IeDEA Southern Africa. What Should we do When HIV-Positive Children fail first-line combination antiretroviral therapy? A comparison of 4 ART management strategies. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2018 Jul . doi:10.1097/inf.0000000000002156. PMID: 30067598.

5. Sipambo N, Coovadia A, Meyers T, Sawry S. Prevalence of dyslipidaemia in HIV-infected children treated with protease inhibitors in South Africa. Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2019;1(2):49-60.

6. Zaniewski E, Dao Ostinelli CH, Chammartin F, Maxwell N, Davies M-A, Euvrard J, et al. Trends in CD4 and viral load testing 2005 to 2018: multi-cohort study of people living with HIV in Southern Africa. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 2020;23(7):e25546.

Awards/
Associations/
Community activities

SAHCS Child and Adolescent committee