Catalyzing the scale-up of community-based primary healthcare in a rural impoverished region of northern Ghana (Publications)
Ghana's Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) initiative develops accessible healthcare with participatory community support, using strategies developed and tested by a project of the Na
A systematic review of supportive supervision as a strategy to improve primary healthcare services in sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
BACKGROUND: It may be assumed that supportive supervision effectively builds capacity, improves the quality of care provided by frontline health workers, and positively impacts clinical outcomes. Evid
Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome associated with dermatophytoses in two HIV-1 positive patients in rural Tanzania: a case report (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome associated with dermatophytoses (tinea-IRIS) may cause considerable morbidity. Yet, it has been scarcely reported and is rarely considered in th
Malaria intervention scale-up in Africa: effectiveness predictions for health programme planning tools, based on dynamic transmission modelling (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Scale-up of malaria prevention and treatment needs to continue to further important gains made in the past decade, but national strategies and budget allocations are not always evidence-ba
Gaining and sustaining schistosomiasis control: study protocol and baseline data prior to different treatment strategies in five African countries (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE) was established in 2008 to answer strategic questions about schistosomiasis control. For programme managers,
"You can save time if..."-a qualitative study on internal factors slowing down clinical trials in sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The costs, complexity, legal requirements and number of amendments associated with clinical trials are rising constantly, which negatively affects the efficient conduct of trials. In Sub-S
Monitoring of selected health indicators in children living in a copper mine development area in northwestern Zambia (Publications)
The epidemiology of malaria, anaemia and malnutrition in children is potentially altered in mining development areas. In a copper extraction project in northwestern Zambia, a health impact assessment
Low efficacy of albendazole against <em>Trichuris trichiura</em> infection in schoolchildren from Port Elizabeth, South Africa (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Albendazole is one of two standard drugs for the control of soil-transmitted helminthiasis. METHODS: A total of 149 schoolchildren from Port Elizabeth, South Africa, were examined for soil
Raising more domestic money for health: prospects for low- and middle-income countries (Publications)
Since the 2007/2008 financial crisis, the rhetoric in the development assistance dialogue has shifted away from raising more international funding for health, to requesting countries to move toward se
