A prospective evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of the point-of-care VISITECT CD4 Advanced Disease test in seven countries (Publications)
BACKGROUND: CD4 measurement is pivotal in the management of advanced HIV disease. VISITECT® CD4 Advanced Disease (AccuBio Limited, Alva, UK; VISITECT) is an instrument-free, point-of-care, semi-quanti
Socioeconomic status and adherence to preventive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland: a population based digital cohort analysis (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: To assess the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and self-reported adherence to preventive measures in Switzerland during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: 4,299 participants fro
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention and the spread of <em>Plasmodium falciparum </em>quintuple-mutant parasites resistant to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine: a... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus amodiaquine prevents millions of clinical malaria cases in children younger than 5 years in Africa's Sahel region
Evaluating double-duty actions in Rwanda's secondary cities (Publications)
The double burden of malnutrition (DBM) is escalating in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including in Rwanda, most notably in urbanizing areas. The 2019-2020 Rwanda Demographic Health Survey
<em>TOLLIP</em> and <em>MUC5B</em> modulate the effect of ambient NO2 on respiratory symptoms in infancy (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Current knowledge suggests that the gene region containing MUC5B and TOLLIP plays a role in airway defence and airway inflammation, and hence respiratory disease. It is also known that exp
Cardiac involvement in Chagas disease and African trypanosomiasis (Publications)
Trypanosomiases are diseases caused by various species of protozoan parasite in the genus Trypanosoma, each presenting with distinct clinical manifestations and prognoses. Infections can affect multip
Prevalence of mental health and substance use problems and awareness of need for services in Lesotho: results from a population-based survey (Publications)
We conducted a household survey among 6061 adults in Lesotho to (1) assess the prevalence of moderate/severe mental health (MH) and substance use (SU) problems (2) describe the MH and SU service casca
Global and regional cardiovascular mortality attributable to nonoptimal temperatures over time (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The association between nonoptimal temperatures and cardiovascular mortality risk is recognized. However, a comprehensive global assessment of this burden is lacking. OBJECTIVES: The goal
Simultaneous alleviation of verification and reference standard biases in a community-based tuberculosis screening study using Bayesian latent class... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Estimation of prevalence and diagnostic test accuracy in tuberculosis (TB) prevalence surveys suffer from reference standard and verification biases. The former is attributed to the imperf
Assessing capacities to strengthen intersectoral collaboration in Territorial Public Health Councils in the Republic of Moldova (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The government of the Republic of Moldova, endorsed the principle of Health in All Policies (HiAP) through its health sector reforms to address the rising burden of non-communicable diseas
