Why do marital partners of people living with HIV not test for HIV? A qualitative study in Lusaka, Zambia (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Knowledge of HIV status is crucial for HIV prevention and management in marital relationships. Yet some marital partners of people living with HIV decline HIV testing despite knowing the H
Increasing the reach: involving local muslim religious teachers in a behavioral intervention to eliminate urogenital schistosomiasis in Zanzibar (Publications)
In Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania, Madrassa schools are influential institutions, where children and adults can learn about the interpretation of the Koran. We aimed to explore the involvement
Improving institutional childbirth services in rural Southern Tanzania: a qualitative study of healthcare workers' perspective (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To describe health workers' perceptions of a quality improvement (QI) intervention that focused on improving institutional childbirth services in primary health facilities in Southern Tanza
Analysis of diagnostic findings from the European mobile laboratory in Gueckedou, Guinea, March 2014 through March 2015 (Publications)
BACKGROUND: A unit of the European Mobile Laboratory (EMLab) consortium was deployed to the Ebola virus disease (EVD) treatment unit in Gueckedou, Guinea, from March 2014 through March 2015. METHODS:
Discovery of a mosaic-like biosynthetic assembly line with a decarboxylative off-loading mechanism through a combination of genome mining and imaging (Publications)
The biosynthetic gene cluster for the antiplasmodial natural product siphonazole was identified by using a combination of genome mining, imaging, and expression studies in the natural producer Herpeto
Spatio-temporal distribution of <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> complex strains in Ghana (Publications)
BACKGROUND: There is a perception that genomic differences in the species/lineages of the nine species making the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) may affect the efficacy of distinct control
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor study 2013 (GBD 2013) is the first of a series of annual updates of the GBD. Risk factor quantification, particularly of modifiable
RF exposure survey of children and adults: first results from Slovenia (Publications)
Although RF exposure surveys have been carried out in the general environment using recently developed personal measurement devices (exposure meters), comprehensive measurement of exposure with a true