How does membership in local savings groups influence the determinants of national health insurance demand? A cross-sectional study in Kisumu, Kenya (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) are highly active in many sub-Saharan African countries, serving as an important gateway for coping with financial risk. In light of the K
Inter-sectoral approaches for the prevention and control of malaria among the mobile and migrant populations: a scoping review (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Malaria cases among mobile and migrant populations (MMPs) represent a large and important reservoir for transmission, if undetected or untreated. The objectives of this review were to iden
How does anonymous online peer communication affect prevention behavior? Evidence from a laboratory experiment (Publications)
While the importance of social networks for health behaviors is well-recognized, relatively little is known regarding the accuracy of anonymous online communication and its impact on health behavior.
Efficacy and safety of ascending dosages of tribendimidine against hookworm infections in children: a randomized controlled trial (Publications)
Background: The global strategy to control soil-transmitted helminthiasis is mainly focused on preventive chemotherapy based on albendazole and mebendazole. We assessed the efficacy and safety of asce
A multiplex assay for the sensitive detection and quantification of male and female <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> gametocytes (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The transmission of malaria to mosquitoes depends on the presence of gametocytes that circulate in the peripheral blood of infected human hosts. Sensitive estimates of the densities of fem
Spatio-temporal population genetic structure, relative to demographic and ecological characteristics, in the freshwater snail <em>Biomphalaria... (Publications)
Combining the analysis of spatial and temporal variation when investigating population structure enhances our capacity for unravelling the biotic and abiotic factors responsible for microevolutionary
A metapopulation model of dog rabies transmission in N'Djamena, Chad (Publications)
Rabies transmission was interrupted for several months in N'Djamena, the capital city of Chad, after two mass vaccination campaigns of dogs. However, there was a resurgence in cases, which was not pre
Importance of routine viral load monitoring: higher levels of resistance at ART failure in Uganda and Lesotho compared with Switzerland (Publications)
Objectives: Emerging resistance to antiretroviral drugs may jeopardize the achievements of improved access to ART. We compared the prevalence of different resistance mutations in HIV-infected adults w