Achieving health-systems resilience in Tanzania (Publications)
The contemporary challenges of the health system require a system that is resilient and responsive to shocks if the desired health outcomes are to be attained. A resilient health system should have a
Looking to the future of primary health care in Tanzania (Publications)
Primary health care (PHC) is key to achieving universal health coverage and sustainable development goals. Tanzania, as a pioneer of PHC among other countries, has made substantial progress in fulfill
The economic case for devoting public resources to health (Publications)
Despite remarkable improvements in global population health in recent decades, the burden of disease remains high in many countries, and in tropical countries in particular. We examine why health is i
Human African trypanosomiasis (Publications)
Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is a parasitic disease caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense or T.b. rhodesiense, transmitted by tsetse flies (Glossina spp.). HAT has a prominent history as it re
Tropical rickettsial infections (Publications)
Tropical rickettsial illnesses are severely neglected infectious diseases with a worldwide distribution. These diseases are transmitted by various vectors (mites, ticks, fleas, etc.) and are responsib
<em>Mycobacterium ulcerans</em> disease (Buruli ulcer) (Publications)
Buruli ulcer is an infection of the subcutaneous tissue leading to chronic necrotizing skin ulcers. Sub-Saharan Africa carries the main burden of BU, but it also occurs in the Americas and the Western
Beyond health-system building blocks: context and determinants of health (Publications)
The WHO health-system building block framework represents a construction that has been widely used to analyse health systems. While the framework has shown success and become a useful analytical tool,
Update of transmission modelling and projections of <em>gambiense </em>human African trypanosomiasis in the Mandoul focus, Chad (Publications)
BACKGROUND: In recent years, a programme of vector control, screening and treatment of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT) infections led to a rapid decline in cases in the Mandoul focus of
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, primary varicella zoster virus coinfection, and a polymicrobial ventilator-associated... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The spectrum of clinical manifestations and differential diagnosis associated with coronavirus disease 2019 is broad, ranging from fever and cutaneous eruptions to respiratory distress or
