PEBRA trial - effect of a peer-educator coordinated preference-based ART service delivery model on viral suppression among adolescents and young... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Despite tremendous progress in controlling the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa, HIV-related mortality continues to increase among adolescents and young people living with HIV (AYPLHIV).
A factorial cluster-randomised controlled trial combining home-environmental and early child development interventions to improve child health and... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Exposure to unhealthy environments and inadequate child stimulation are main risk factors that affect children's health and wellbeing in low- and middle-income countries. Interventions tha
<em>Leptospira</em> seroprevalence among Ugandan slaughter cattle: comparison of sero-status with renal <em>Leptospira </em>infection (Publications)
Despite evidence of both human and animal Leptospira exposures in Uganda, the epidemiology of the disease is still not well-investigated. Contact with animals and their environments have been pointed
A random forest approach to estimate daily particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, and ozone at fine spatial resolution in Sweden (Publications)
Air pollution is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide. An accurate assessment of its spatial and temporal distribution is mandatory to conduct epidemiological studies able to estimate long
Cost of interventions to control schistosomiasis: a systematic review of the literature (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis, a disease caused by blood flukes of the genus Schistosoma, belongs to the neglected tropical diseases. Left untreated, schistosomiasis can lead to severe health problems a
Mechanochemical formation of racemic praziquantel hemihydrate with improved biopharmaceutical properties (Publications)
Praziquantel (PZQ) is the first-line drug used against schistosomiasis, one of the most common parasitic diseases in the world. A series of crystalline structures including two new polymorphs of the p
Re-annotation of the <em>Theileria parva</em> genome refines 53% of the proteome and uncovers essential components of N-glycosylation, a conserved... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The apicomplexan parasite Theileria parva causes a livestock disease called East coast fever (ECF), with millions of animals at risk in sub-Saharan East and Southern Africa, the geographic
A mathematical model of animal-human brucellosis transmission in Armenia: implications for prevention and control (Publications)
Brucellosis, a zoonotic disease impacting public health and economies, is prevalent in several countries, particularly low- and middle-income regions. This study centers on Armenia, where the Veterina
Transhumanism and One Health (Publications)
In this article, we draw on an interdisciplinary seminar at the University of Basel in the spring semester 2023. The seminar firstly discussed technical transhumanism between improving human lives thr
