Higher complexity of infection and genetic diversity of <em>Plasmodium vivax </em>than <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> across all malaria transmission... (Publications)
Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax have varying transmission dynamics that are informed by molecular epidemiology. This study aimed to determine the complexity of infection and genetic diversi
Quality management: where is the evidence? Developing an indicator-based approach in Kenya (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda emphasizes the importance of quality of care in the drive to achieve universal health coverage. Despite recent progress, challenges in service del
<em>In vitro</em>, <em>ex vivo</em> and<em> in vivo</em> activity of diamidines against <em>Trypanosoma congolense</em> and <em>Trypanosoma vivax</em> (Publications)
African Animal Trypanosomosis (AAT) is caused by the tsetse-transmitted protozoans, Trypanosoma congolense and T. vivax, leading to huge agricultural losses throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Three drugs
An investment case to prevent the reintroduction of malaria in Sri Lanka (Publications)
Sri Lanka has made remarkable gains in reducing the burden of malaria, recording no locally transmitted malaria cases since November 2012 and zero deaths since 2007. The country was recently certified
Determinants of time from HIV infection to linkage-to-care in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To estimate time from HIV infection to linkage-to-care and its determinants. Linkage-to-care is usually assessed using the date of HIV diagnosis as the starting point for exposure time. How
Clinical markers of asthma and IgE assessed in parents before conception predicts asthma and hay fever in the offspring (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Mice models suggest epigenetic inheritance induced by parental allergic disease activity. However, we know little of how parental disease activity before conception influences offspring's
Malaria intervention scale-up in Africa: effectiveness predictions for health programme planning tools, based on dynamic transmission modelling (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Scale-up of malaria prevention and treatment needs to continue to further important gains made in the past decade, but national strategies and budget allocations are not always evidence-ba
Gaining and sustaining schistosomiasis control: study protocol and baseline data prior to different treatment strategies in five African countries (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE) was established in 2008 to answer strategic questions about schistosomiasis control. For programme managers,
