Prevention through Activity in Kindergarten Trial (PAKT): a cluster randomised controlled trial to assess the effects of an activity intervention in... (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Physical activity and motor skills acquisition are of high importance for health-related prevention and a normal development in childhood. However, few intervention studies exist
In-hospital safety in field conditions of nifurtimox eflornithine combination therapy (NECT) for <em>T.b. gambiense</em> sleeping sickness (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Trypanosoma brucei (T.b.) gambiense Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT; sleeping sickness) is a fatal disease. Until 2009, available treatments for 2(nd) stage HAT were complicated to use,
Efficacy of single-dose and triple-dose albendazole and mebendazole against soil-transmitted helminths and <em>Taenia </em>spp<em>.</em>: a randomized... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The control of soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections currently relies on the large-scale administration of single-dose oral albendazole or mebendazole. However, these treatment regime
Measures of clinical malaria in field trials of interventions against <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Standard methods for defining clinical malaria in intervention trials in endemic areas do not guarantee that efficacy estimates will be unbiased, and do not indicate whether the interventi