Oral fexinidazole for late-stage African <em>Trypanosoma brucei gambiense </em>trypanosomiasis: a pivotal multicentre, randomised, non-inferiority... (Publications)
ne combination therapy in patients with late-stage g-HAT. METHODS: In this randomised, phase 2/3, open-label, non-inferiority trial, we recruited patients aged 15 years and older with late-stage g-HAT
Engagement in care, viral suppression, drug resistance and reasons for non-engagement after home-based same-day ART initiation in Lesotho: a two-year... (Publications)
HIV testing improved engagement in care and viral suppression 12 months after diagnosis. However, open questions remain regarding long-term outcomes and the risk of propagating drug resistance. METHODS:
Biomonitoring human exposure to household air pollution and association with self-reported health symptoms- a stove intervention study in Peru (Publications)
chimney-equipped stoves) were less exposed to HAP compared to the control group (n=179, with mostly open-fire stoves). We also estimated associations between the exposure biomarkers, risk factors, and s
Community knowledge, perceptions, and practices associated with urogenital schistosomiasis among school-aged children in Zanzibar, United Republic of... (Publications)
and no teaching tools or materials for students. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Conducting activities in open natural freshwater contaminated by S. haematobium larvae compromises the health of school-aged children
Assessing willingness to pay for improved sanitation in rural Vietnam (Publications)
elicit household WTP that involved a sequence of dichotomous choice questions followed by a final open-ended question. A total of 370 households that did not have toilets were selected for this study.
Modelling the impact of Omicron and emerging variants on SARS-CoV-2 transmission and public health burden (Publications)
guiding ongoing COVID-19 control strategies. Methods: With an individual-based transmission model, OpenCOVID, we simulated three viral properties; infectivity, severity, and immune-evading ability, all
Framework synthesis to inform the ideation and design of a paper-based health information system (PHISICC) (Publications)
Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Embase, Epistemonikos, Medline, in-Process on the Ovid platform, OpenGrey, PDQ Evidence ("pretty darnd quick" Evidence), the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Health
Non-Markovian modelling highlights the importance of age structure on Covid-19 epidemiological dynamics (Publications)
study shows the flexibility and robustness of PDE formalism to capture national COVID-19 dynamics and opens perspectives to study medium or long-term scenarios involving immune waning or virus evolution.
The suboptimal pediatric HIV viral load cascade: multidistrict cohort study among children taking antiretroviral therapy in Lesotho, Southern Africa (Publications)
some exceptions. Here, we describe the pediatric VL cascade in Lesotho. METHODS: In a prospective open cohort study comprising routine VL results from 22 clinics in Lesotho, we assessed outcomes along
Ultrasound in managing extrapulmonary tuberculosis: a randomized controlled two-center study (Publications)
overtreatment of tuberculosis and to underdiagnosis of possible differential diagnoses. METHODS: This open-label, parallel-group, superiority randomized controlled trial is done in a rural and an urban center
