"If it is left, it becomes easy for me to get tested": use of oral self-tests and community health workers to maximize the potential of home-based HIV... (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Home-based HIV testing fails to reach high coverage among adolescents and young adults (AYA), mainly because they are often absent during the day of home-based testing. ADORE (ADolescent
Natural polymorphisms in <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis </em>conferring resistance to delamanid in drug-naïve patients (Publications)
Mutations in the genes of the F420 signaling pathway, including dnn, fgd1, fbiA, fbiB, fbiC, and fbiD, of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) complex can lead to delamanid resistance. We searched for suc
Trypanosomes have divergent kinesin-2 proteins that function differentially in flagellum biosynthesis and cell viability (Publications)
Trypanosoma brucei, the causative agent of African sleeping sickness, has a flagellum that is crucial for motility, pathogenicity, and viability. In most eukaryotes, the intraflagellar transport (IFT)
Communities and clinical trials: a case study from the RTS,S malaria vaccine trials in eastern Africa (Publications)
When clinical trials enter human communities, two complex systems merge-creating challenges for the clinical trial team and the local human community. This is of particular relevance for clinical tria
Mobile pastoralists in Africa: a blind spot in global health surveillance (Publications)
Mobile pastoralists subsist primarily on herds of livestock such as camels, cattle, and goats, migrating seasonally to access water and grazing areas. Speculative estimates of their global population
Breastfeeding following<em> in vitro</em> fertilisation in Switzerland - does mode of conception affect breastfeeding behaviour? (Publications)
AIM: Breastfeeding has numerous advantages. Our aim was to investigate whether breastfeeding initiation and duration in women with pregnancies conceived through in vitro fertilisation differ from spon
Learn or react? An experimental study of preventive health decision making (Publications)
Despite public health efforts, uptake of preventive health technologies remains low in many settings. In this paper, we develop a formal model of prevention and test it through a laboratory experiment
Multidisciplinary preclinical investigations on three oxamniquine analogues as novel drug candidates for schistosomiasis (Publications)
Schistosomiasis is a disease of poverty affecting millions of people. Praziquantel (PZQ), with its strengths and weaknesses, is the only treatment available. We previously reported findings on 3 lead
