Myanmar midwife : an eye-opening look at midwifery in rural Myanmar [Video] (Publications)
to provide not only mother-and-child but also primary health care. Myanmar Midwife takes an eye-opening look at the situation for midwife Nwe Ni Cho, who serves seven villages with a total population of
Praziquantel, mefloquine-praziquantel, and mefloquine-artesunate-praziquantel against <em>Schistosoma haematobium</em>: a randomized, exploratory,... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Treatment and morbidity control of schistosomiasis relies on a single drug, praziquantel. Hence, there is a pressing need to develop additional therapeutics against schistosomiasis. The an
Orally active antischistosomal early leads identified from the open access malaria box (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Worldwide hundreds of millions of schistosomiasis patients rely on treatment with a single drug, praziquantel. Therapeutic limitations and the threat of praziquantel resistance underline t
Innovative tools and OpenHDS for health and demographic surveillance on Rusinga Island, Kenya (Publications)
Island, western Kenya, has deployed an HDSS. By means of computer tablets in combination with Open Data Kit and OpenHDS data collection and management software experiences with time efficiency, cost effectiveness
Safety and efficacy of the RTS,S/AS01(E) candidate malaria vaccine given with expanded-programme-on-immunisation vaccines: 19 month follow-up of a... (Publications)
report extended follow-up to 19 months, including efficacy results. METHODS: We did a randomised, open-label, phase 2 trial of safety and efficacy of the RTS,S/AS01(E) candidate malaria vaccine given with
Toward an open-access global database for mapping, control, and surveillance of neglected tropical diseases (Publications)
monitoring and evaluation. What is currently missing is a georeferenced global database for NTDs providing open-access to the available survey data that is constantly updated and can be utilized by researchers [...] including a host of other NTDs, e.g. soil-transmitted helminthiasis and leishmaniasis. CONCLUSIONS: An open-access, spatially explicit NTD database offers unique opportunities for disease risk modeling, targeting