Water, sanitation, hygiene, and soil-transmitted helminth infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Preventive chemotherapy represents a powerful but short-term control strategy for soil-transmitted helminthiasis. Since humans are often re-infected rapidly, long-term solutions require im
Beyond antimalarial stock-outs: implications of health provider compliance on out-of-pocket expenditure during care-seeking for fever in south east... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: To better understand how stock-outs of the first line antimalarial, Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT) and other non-compliant health worker behaviour, influence household expendi
Seeking treatment for symptomatic malaria in Papua New Guinea (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Malaria places a significant burden on the limited resources of many low income countries. Knowing more about why and where people seek treatment will enable policy makers to better alloca
The influence of physiological status on age prediction of <em>Anopheles arabiensis</em> using near infra-red spectroscopy (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Determining the age of malaria vectors is essential for evaluating the impact of interventions that reduce the survival of wild mosquito populations and for estimating changes in vectorial
Spinal cystic echinococcosis - a systematic analysis and review of the literature: part 1. Epidemiology and anatomy (Publications)
Bone involvement in human cystic echinococcosis (CE) is rare, but affects the spine in approximately 50% of cases. Despite significant advances in diagnostic imaging techniques as well as surgical and
Strategies for detection of <em>Plasmodium species</em> gametocytes (Publications)
Carriage and density of gametocytes, the transmission stages of malaria parasites, are determined for predicting the infectiousness of humans to mosquitoes. This measure is used for evaluating interve
Improving newborn health in countries exposed to political violence: an assessment of the availability, accessibility, and distribution of neonatal... (Publications)
Introduction: Geopolitical segregation of Palestine has left a fragile healthcare system with an unequal distribution of services. Data from the Gaza Strip reflect an increase in infant mortality that