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1. Costs and cost-effectiveness of vector control in Eritrea using insecticide-treated bed nets (Publications)

   Costs and cost-effectiveness of vector control in Eritrea using insecticide-treated bed nets

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   BACKGROUND: While insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) are a recognized effective method for preventing malaria, there has been an extensive debate in recent years about the best large-scale implementation

2. Alfred Bühler : Ethnologe, ehemaliger Vorsteher des Museums für Völkerkunde und Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Ethnologie an der Universität Basel (Publications)

   Alfred Bühler : Ethnologe, ehemaliger Vorsteher des Museums für Völkerkunde und Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Ethnologie an der Universität Basel

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3. Elimination of tropical disease through surveillance and response [Editorial] (Publications)

   Elimination of tropical disease through surveillance and response [Editorial]

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   Surveillance and response represent the final crucial steps in achieving effective control and particularly elimination of communicable diseases as recognized in the area of neglected tropical disease

4. "Communicate to vaccinate": the development of a taxonomy of communication interventions to improve routine childhood vaccination (Publications)

   "Communicate to vaccinate": the development of a taxonomy of communication interventions to improve routine childhood vaccination

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   BACKGROUND: Vaccination is a cost-effective public health measure and is central to the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality. However, childhood vaccination coverage remains sub-opt

5. Non-ionizing radiation, part 2: radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (Publications)

   Non-ionizing radiation, part 2: radiofrequency electromagnetic fields

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6. Fexinidazole: a new oral nitroimidazole drug candidate entering clinical development for the treatment of sleeping sickness (Publications)

   Fexinidazole: a new oral nitroimidazole drug candidate entering clinical development for the treatment of sleeping sickness

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   BACKGROUND: Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, is a fatal parasitic disease caused by trypanosomes. Current treatment options for HAT are scarce, toxic, no longer ef

7. Spatial epidemiology in zoonotic parasitic diseases: insights gained at the 1st International Symposium on Geospatial Health in Lijiang, China, 2007 (Publications)

   Spatial epidemiology in zoonotic parasitic diseases: insights gained at the 1st International Symposium on Geospatial Health in Lijiang, China, 2007

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   ABSTRACT: The 1st International Symposium on Geospatial Health was convened in Lijiang, Yunnan province, People's Republic of China from 8 to 9 September, 2007. The objective was to review progress ma

8. Agrochemicals against malaria, sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease (Publications)

   Agrochemicals against malaria, sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease

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   In tropical regions, protozoan parasites can cause severe diseases with malaria, leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness, and Chagas disease standing in the forefront. Many of the drugs currently being used

9. 'BRICS without straw'? A systematic literature review of newly emerging economies' influence in global health (Publications)

   'BRICS without straw'? A systematic literature review of newly emerging economies' influence in global health

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   BACKGROUND: Since 2010, five newly emerging economies collectively known as 'BRICS' (Brazil, India, Russia, China and South Africa) have caught the imagination, and scholarly attention, of political s

10. Rapid urban malaria appraisal (RUMA) II: epidemiology of urban malaria in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) (Publications)

    Rapid urban malaria appraisal (RUMA) II: epidemiology of urban malaria in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)

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    BACKGROUND: The thinking behind malaria research and control strategies stems largely from experience gained in rural areas and needs to be adapted to the urban environment. METHODS: A rapid assessmen