Assessing the impact of aggregating disease stage data in model predictions of human African trypanosomiasis transmission and control activities in... (Publications)
Since the turn of the century, the global community has made great progress towards the elimination of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (HAT). Elimination programs, primarily relying on screeni
An interactive application for malaria elimination transmission and costing in the Asia-Pacific (Publications)
Leaders in the Asia-Pacific have endorsed an ambitious target to eliminate malaria in the region by 2030. The emergence and spread of artemisinin drug resistance in the Greater Mekong Subregion makes
Prescription of concomitant medications in patients treated with nifurtimox eflornithine combination therapy (NECT) for <em>T.b. gambiense</em> second... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Nifurtimox eflornithine combination therapy (NECT) to treat human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), commonly called sleeping sickness, was added to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Essen
Status of birth and pregnancy outcome capture in Health Demographic Surveillance Sites in 13 countries (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: We compared pregnancy identification methods and outcome capture across 31 Health Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) sites in 14 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. METHODS: From
Nutritional status and intestinal parasites among young children from pastoralist communities of the Ethiopian Somali region (Publications)
Pastoralist children in the Ethiopian Somali Regional State (ESRS) are at high risk for undernutrition and intestinal parasitic infections (IPIs). We assessed the nutritional status and its associatio
The impact of rehabilitation-oriented virtual reality device in patients with ischemic stroke in the early subacute recovery phase: study protocol for... (Publications)
Background and rationale: Stroke is considered the most common cause of adult disability. Intensive rehabilitation protocols outperform nonintensive counterparts. The subacute stroke phase represents
Nutritional and health status of children 15 months after integrated school garden, nutrition, and water, sanitation and hygiene interventions: a... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: It has been suggested that specific interventions delivered through the education sector in low- and middle-income countries might improve children's health and wellbeing. This cluster-ran