<em>Vivax </em>malaria in pregnancy and lactation: a long way to health equity (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) call for increased gender equity and reduction in malaria-related mortality and morbidity. Plasmodium vivax infections in pregnancy are associated w
Trends and risk factors associated with stillbirths: a case study of the Navrongo War Memorial Hospital in Northern Ghana (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Maternal and Child health remains at the core of global health priorities transcending the Millennium Development Goals into the current era of Sustainable Development Goals. Most low and
Molecular malaria surveillance using a novel protocol for extraction and analysis of nucleic acids retained on used rapid diagnostic tests (Publications)
The use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) as a source for nucleic acids that can be analyzed via nucleic acid amplification techniques has several advantages, including minimal amounts of blood
Human unconventional T cells in <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> infection (Publications)
Malaria is an old scourge of humankind and has a large negative impact on the economic development of affected communities. Recent success in malaria control and reduction of mortality seems to have s
Activity of novel oral formulations of albendazole and mebendazole against <em>Heligmosomoides polygyrus in vitro</em> and <em>in vivo</em> (Publications)
Albendazole (ABZ) and mebendazole (MBZ) are the two most commonly used drugs in the treatment of soil-transmitted helminths in humans but their performance is hampered by low solubility and physicoche
Assessing the effects of the nursing education reform on the educational environment in Tajikistan: a repeated cross-sectional analysis (Publications)
Background: A well-functioning education system for family nurses is a priority of the primary health care reform in Tajikistan. In 2015/2016, a baseline study was carried out to measure the education
Simulating the council-specific impact of anti-malaria interventions: a tool to support malaria strategic planning in Tanzania (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: The decision-making process for malaria control and elimination strategies has become more challenging. Interventions need to be targeted at council level to allow for changing malaria e
A genome-wide association study on medulloblastoma (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Medulloblastoma is a malignant embryonal tumor of the cerebellum that occurs predominantly in children. To find germline genetic variants associated with medulloblastoma risk, we conduct