Use of herbal remedies in the management of sleeping sickness in four northern provinces of Angola (Publications)
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: This study reports for the first time on the use of folk medicine to treat sleeping sickness and its symptoms in four endemic provinces in northern Angola. By interview
The immunology of other mycobacteria:<em> M. ulcerans, M. leprae</em> (Publications)
Mycobacterial pathogens can be categorized into three broad groups: Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex causing tuberculosis, M. leprae and M. lepromatosis causing leprosy, and atypical mycobacteria, o
Body mass index and weight change are associated with adult lung function trajectories: the prospective ECRHS study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have reported an association between weight increase and excess lung function decline in young adults followed for short periods. We aimed to estimate lung function trajec
The duration of chemoprophylaxis against malaria after treatment with artesunate-amodiaquine and artemether-lumefantrine and the effects of <em>pfmdr1... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The majority of Plasmodium falciparum malaria cases in Africa are treated with the artemisinin combination therapies artemether-lumefantrine (AL) and artesunate-amodiaquine (AS-AQ), with a
Collaborating with Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) providers when writing HPV vaccine review articles (Publications)
Novel strategies are needed to address vaccine hesitancy (VH), which correlates with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). In Switzerland, CAM providers play important roles in vaccine counsel
New drugs for human African trypanosomiasis: a twenty first century success story (Publications)
The twentieth century ended with human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) epidemics raging across many parts of Africa. Resistance to existing drugs was emerging, and many programs aiming to contain the di