Cause of death estimation from verbal autopsies: is the open response redundant or synergistic? (Publications)
Civil registration and vital statistics systems capture birth and death events to compile vital statistics and to provide legal rights to citizens. Vital statistics are a key factor in promoting publi
A pyridyl-furan series developed from the Open Global Health Library block red blood cell invasion and protein trafficking in <em>Plasmodium... (Publications)
With the resistance increasing to current antimalarial medicines, there is an urgent need to discover new drug targets and to develop new medicines against these targets. We therefore screened the Ope
Impact of COVID-19 on the utilization of HIV testing and linkage services in Sierra Leone: experience from three public health facilities in Freetown (Publications)
The COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected the delivery of essential health services globally. In this study, we aimed to assess the impact of the pandemic on HIV testing and linkage services at three p
Body mass index trends and its impact of under and overweight on outcome among PLHIV on antiretroviral treatment in rural Tanzania: a prospective... (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Increased body weight is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease and is increasingly reported as a health problem in people living with HIV (PLHIV). There is limited data fro
Incidental radiological findings during clinical tuberculosis screening in Lesotho and South Africa: a case series (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Chest X-ray offers high sensitivity and acceptable specificity as a tuberculosis screening tool, but in areas with a high burden of tuberculosis, there is often a lack of radiological expe
Changes in healthcare utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic and potential causes : a cohort study from Switzerland (Publications)
Objectives: To describe the frequency of and reasons for changes in healthcare utilization in those requiring ongoing treatment, and to assess characteristics associated with change, during the second
Health system resilience: a critical review and reconceptualisation (Publications)
This Viewpoint brings together insights from health system experts working in a range of settings. Our focus is on examining the state of the resilience field, including current thinking on definition
Investigating sustainability challenges for the National Health Insurance Fund in Tanzania: a modelling approach (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to model the long-term cost associated with expanding public health insurance coverage in Tanzania. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: We analysed the 2016 claims of 2 923 5
A multi-pronged approach to improve blood culture diagnostics in different clinical departments: a single-centre experience (Publications)
PURPOSE: Blood culture (BC) diagnostics are influenced by many factors. We performed a targeted interdisciplinary analysis to analyse effects of various measures on BC diagnostics performance. METHODS
