Marital status, living arrangement and mortality: does the association vary by gender? (Publications)
Background Men appear to benefit more from being married than women with respect to mortality in middle age. However, there is some uncertainty about gender differences in mortality risks in older ind
Surveillance and response systems for elimination of tropical diseases: summary of a thematic series in Infectious Diseases of Poverty (Publications)
The peer-reviewed journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty provides a new platform to engage with, and disseminate in an open-access format, science outside traditional disciplinary boundaries. The curr
Absence of hepatitis delta infection in a large rural HIV cohort in Tanzania (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: The epidemiological and clinical determinants of hepatitis delta virus (HDV) infection in sub-Saharan Africa are ill-defined. We determined the prevalence of HDV infection in HIV/hepatitis
Policy support and resources mobilization for the National Schistosomiasis Control Programme in the People's Republic of China (Publications)
Schistosomiasis remains a public health problem in many developing countries around the world. After the founding of The People's Republic of China, from 1949 till date, all levels of government, from
Low prevalence of <em>Plasmodium</em> and absence of malaria transmission in Conakry, Guinea: prospects for elimination (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Over the past 15 years, mortality and morbidity due to malaria have been reduced substantially in sub-Saharan Africa and local elimination has been achieved in some settings. This study ad
Annual and seasonal spatial models for nitrogen oxides in Tehran, Iran (Publications)
Very few land use regression (LUR) models have been developed for megacities in low- and middle-income countries, but such models are needed to facilitate epidemiologic research on air pollution. We d
Community knowledge, perceptions, and practices associated with urogenital schistosomiasis among school-aged children in Zanzibar, United Republic of... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: On the Zanzibar islands, United Republic of Tanzania, elimination of urogenital schistosomiasis is strived for in the coming years. This qualitative study aimed to better understand commun