Tetrahydropyridinylidene ammonium salts with arylalkyl and diarylalkyl substitution and their antiprotozoal activity (Publications)
Tetrahydropyridin-4-ylidene salts with benzyl and dibenzyl substitution showed good antiprotozoal activity. This paper reports the synthesis of analogues with longer side chains. They were investigate
Effectiveness and safety of Chinese herbal injections combined with sox chemotherapy regimens for advanced gastric cancer: a Bayesian network... (Publications)
Background: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have demonstrated that combining Chinese herbal injections (CHIs) with oxaliplatin plus tegafur (SOX) chemotherapy regimens improves clinical effectiven
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,
Development of prediction models to identify hotspots of schistosomiasis in endemic regions to guide mass drug administration (Publications)
Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease affecting over 150 million people. Hotspots of Schistosoma transmission-communities where infection prevalence does not decline adequately with mass dru
Assessing the contributions of an urban population health initiative to shift political priority towards cardiovascular health: three case studies... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The urban population health initiative was designed as a multidisciplinary, multisector programme to address cardiovascular (CV) disease, specifically hypertension and its underlying cause
Clonorchiasis and opisthorchiasis: epidemiology, transmission, clinical features, morbidity, diagnosis, treatment, and control (Publications)
SUMMARYClonorchis sinensis, Opisthorchis viverrini, and Opisthorchis felineus are important liver flukes that cause a considerable public health burden in eastern Asia, southeastern Asia, and eastern
Tafenoquine following G6PD screening versus primaquine for the treatment of <em>vivax </em>malaria in Brazil: a cost-effectiveness analysis using a... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Malaria transmission modelling has demonstrated the potential impact of semiquantitative glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) testing and treatment with single-dose tafenoquine for Pla
Gas cooking indoors and respiratory symptoms in the ECRHS cohort (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Gas cooking is an important source of indoor air pollutants, and there is some limited evidence that it might adversely be associated with respiratory health. Using repeated cross-sectiona
Community health worker training to reduce mental health and substance use stigma towards patients who have disengaged from HIV/TB care in South... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: South Africa has deployed community health workers (CHWs) to support individuals to enter and stay in HIV/TB care. Although CHWs routinely encounter patients with mental health (particular
Safety and protective efficacy of PfSPZ vaccine administered to HIV negative and positive Tanzanian adults (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Sanaria PfSPZ Vaccine, composed of attenuated Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) sporozoites (SPZ), protects against malaria. We conducted this clinical trial to assess the safety and efficacy of
