Low efficacy of single-dose albendazole and mebendazole against hookworm and effect on concomitant helminth infection in Lao PDR (Publications)
two drugs could also be determined against this liver fluke. METHODOLOGY: We conducted a randomized, open-label, two-arm trial. In total, 200 children infected with hookworm (determined by quadruplicate Kato-Katz
In-hospital safety in field conditions of nifurtimox eflornithine combination therapy (NECT) for <em>T.b. gambiense</em> sleeping sickness (Publications)
of its safety profile in field conditions will support its wider use.METHODOLOGY: In a multicentre, open label, single arm, phase IIIb study of the use of NECT for 2(nd) stage T.b. gambiense HAT, all patients
Improved retention rates with low-cost interventions in hypertension and diabetes management in a rural African environment of nurse-led care: a... (Publications)
shifting and nurse-led care in rural health districts in Central Cameroon. Methods This study is an open-label, three-arm, cluster-randomised trial in nurse-led facilities. All three groups implemented a
KvarQ: targeted and direct variant calling from fastq reads of bacterial genomes (Publications)
bioinformatics expertise to scan and analyze raw sequencing data in a matter of minutes. KvarQ is open-source, and pre-compiled packages with a graphical user interface are available at http://www.swisstph
Effects of hygiene and defecation behavior on helminths and intestinal protozoa infections in Taabo, Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
participants, respectively. Only one out of five households reported the presence of a latrine, and hence, open defecation was common. Logistic regression analysis revealed that age, sex, socioeconomic status,
High burden of tuberculosis infection and disease among people receiving medication-assisted treatment for substance use disorder in Tanzania (Publications)
from November 2016 to February 2017 and a structured questionnaire administered to them through the open data kit application on android tablets. Twenty-two months later, we revisited the MAT clinics and
Contextual factors influencing schistosomiasis treatment and identification of delivery platforms for arpraziquantel in hard-to-reach areas and... (Publications)
schistosomiasis among community members but limited knowledge of transmission risk factors. Lake water and open defecation were the main predisposing factors to infection. We observed poor health-seeking behavior
Mapping health service coverage inequalities in Africa: a scoping review protocol (Publications)
the Joanna Briggs Institute Manual for Evidence Synthesis. We preregistered this protocol with the Open Science Framework on 26 July 2022 (https://osf.io/zd5bt). We will consider any empirical research
An interactive application for malaria elimination transmission and costing in the Asia-Pacific (Publications)
method for communicating complex model results with a user-friendly and intuitive framework. Using open-source technologies, we designed and developed an interactive application to disseminate the modelling
Mass deworming for improving health and cognition of children in endemic helminth areas: a systematic review and individual participant data network... (Publications)
infections may benefit more. We urge the global community to adopt calls to make data available in open repositories to facilitate IPD analyses such as this, which aim to assess effects for the most vulnerable