Towards improved health service quality in Tanzania: appropriateness of an electronic tool to assess quality of primary healthcare (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Progress in health service quality is vital to reach the target of Universal Health Coverage. However, in order to improve quality, it must be measured, and the assessment results must be
Looking at the bigger picture: how the wider health financing context affects the implementation of the Tanzanian Community Health Funds (Publications)
In Tanzania, the health financing system is extremely fragmented with strategies in place to supplement funds provided from the central level. One of these strategies is the Community Health Fund (CHF
Nutrition in transition: historical cohort analysis summarising trends in under- and over-nutrition among pregnant women in a marginalised population... (Publications)
The objective of the present study is to summarise trends in under- and over-nutrition in pregnant women on the Thailand-Myanmar border. Refugees contributed data from 1986 to 2016 and migrants from 1
Ectoparasites of endemic and domestic animals in southwest Madagascar (Publications)
Human encroachment of natural habitats bears the threat of disease transmission between native and introduced species that had not come into contact before, thus promoting the spread of new diseases i
Predicting the cost of malaria elimination in the Asia-Pacific (Publications)
Over the past decade, the countries of the Asia-Pacific region have made significant progress towards the goal of malaria elimination by the year 2030. It is widely accepted that for the region to mee
Transition bias influences the evolution of antibiotic resistance in <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> (Publications)
Transition bias, an overabundance of transitions relative to transversions, has been widely reported among studies of the rates and spectra of spontaneous mutations. However, demonstrating the role of
Evaluation of emodepside in laboratory models of human intestinal nematode and schistosome infections (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Helminthiases are very prevalent worldwide, yet their treatment and control rely on a handful of drugs. Emodepside, a marketed broad-spectrum veterinary anthelminthic with a unique mechani
The impact of using primaquine without prior G6PD testing: a case series describing the obstacles to the medical management of haemolysis (Publications)
Radical cure of Plasmodium vivax malaria in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficient individuals employs weekly primaquine dosing. This is the only recommended regimen for this patient sub-g