Staff experiences of providing maternity services in rural southern Tanzania - a focus on equipment, drug and supply issues (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The poor maintenance of equipment and inadequate supplies of drugs and other items contribute to the low quality of maternity services often found in rural settings in low- and middle-inco
Chronic age-related diseases share risk factors: do they share pathophysiological mechanisms and why does that matter? (Publications)
The World Health Organization (WHO) assigns high priority to the prevention of non-communicable age-related diseases such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke and chronic lower respiratory disea
Reduced risk of <em>Plasmodium vivax</em> malaria in Papua New Guinean children with Southeast Asian ovalocytosis in two cohorts and a case-control... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The erythrocyte polymorphism, Southeast Asian ovalocytosis (SAO) (which results from a 27-base pair deletion in the erythrocyte band 3 gene, SLC4A1Delta27) protects against cerebral malari
The elusive meningococcal meningitis serogroup: a systematic review of serogroup B epidemiology (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD), is a widely distributed, complex human disease affecting all age categories. The causative agent, Neisseria meningitidis, is spread through aerosol re
Determinants of the cost-effectiveness of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants and children (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Trials of intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) and children (IPTc) have shown promising results in reducing malaria episodes but with varying efficacy and cost-effectiveness
Safety of falciparum malaria diagnostic strategy based on rapid diagnostic tests in returning travellers and migrants: a retrospective study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Rapid diagnostic tests for malaria (RDT) allow accurate diagnosis and prompt treatment. Validation of their usefulness in travellers with fever was needed. The safety of a strategy to diag
Exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and sleep quality: a prospective cohort study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: There is persistent public concern about sleep disturbances due to radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure. The aim of this prospective cohort study was to investigate wheth
Experience and challenges from clinical trials with malaria vaccines in Africa (Publications)
Malaria vaccines are considered amongst the most important modalities for potential elimination of malaria disease and transmission. Research and development in this field has been an area of intense
Potential drug development candidates for human soil-transmitted helminthiases (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Few drugs are available for soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH); the benzimidazoles albendazole and mebendazole are the only drugs being used for preventive chemotherapy as they can be gi
