Scaling up antiretroviral therapy in Uganda: Using supply chain management to appraise health systems strengthening (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Strengthened national health systems are necessary for effective and sustained expansion of antiretroviral therapy (ART). ART and its supply chain management in Uganda are largel
Helminth and intestinal protozoa infections, multiparasitism and risk factors in Champasack Province, Lao People's Democratic Republic (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Detailed investigations of multiparasitism are scarce in the Mekong River basin. We assessed helminth (trematode, nematode, and cestode), and intestinal protozoa infections, and multiparas
Secondary Buruli ulcer skin lesions emerging several months after completion of chemotherapy: paradoxical reaction or evidence for immune protection? (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The neglected tropical disease Buruli ulcer (BU) caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans is an infection of the subcutaneous tissue leading to chronic ulcerative skin lesions. Histopathological f
Rosetting in <em>Plasmodium vivax</em>: a cytoadhesion phenotype associated with anaemia (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Plasmodium vivax can potentially lead to life-threatening episodes but the mechanisms underlying severe disease remain poorly defined. Cytoadhesion of infected erythrocytes may contribute
Efficacy of single-dose and triple-dose albendazole and mebendazole against soil-transmitted helminths and <em>Taenia </em>spp<em>.</em>: a randomized... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The control of soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections currently relies on the large-scale administration of single-dose oral albendazole or mebendazole. However, these treatment regime
Measures of clinical malaria in field trials of interventions against <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Standard methods for defining clinical malaria in intervention trials in endemic areas do not guarantee that efficacy estimates will be unbiased, and do not indicate whether the interventi