Health systems and global progress towards malaria elimination, 2000-2016 (Publications)
BACKGROUND: As more countries progress towards malaria elimination, a better understanding of the most critical health system features for enabling and supporting malaria control and elimination is ne
Estimation of free-roaming domestic dog population size: investigation of three methods including an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based approach (Publications)
Population size estimation is performed for several reasons including disease surveillance and control, for example to design adequate control strategies such as vaccination programs or to estimate a
One mean to rule them all? The arithmetic mean based egg reduction rate can be misleading when estimating anthelminthic drug efficacy in clinical... (Publications)
Animal and human helminth infections are highly prevalent around the world, with only few anthelminthic drugs available. The anthelminthic drug performance is expressed by the cure rate and the egg re
Sleeping sickness at the crossroads (Publications)
Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT; sleeping sickness) is a disease with truly historic dimensions [...].
Investigating health impacts of natural resource extraction projects in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mozambique, and Tanzania: protocol for a mixed methods... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Natural resource extraction projects offer both opportunities and risks for sustainable development and health in host communities. Often, however, the health of the community suffers. Hea
Low rates of active hepatitis B and C infections among adults and children living with HIV and taking antiretroviral therapy: a multicenter screening... (Publications)
Lesotho presents the second highest adult human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence globally. Among people living with HIV, data on hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) co-infection
Investigation of antiplasmodial effects of terpenoid compounds isolated from myrrh (Publications)
As part of our ongoing search for antiprotozoal natural products from plants, we examined different resins from the Burseraceae family. The dichloromethane extract obtained from myrrh, the oleo-gum-re