A systematic review of supportive supervision as a strategy to improve primary healthcare services in sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
BACKGROUND: It may be assumed that supportive supervision effectively builds capacity, improves the quality of care provided by frontline health workers, and positively impacts clinical outcomes. Evid
Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome associated with dermatophytoses in two HIV-1 positive patients in rural Tanzania: a case report (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome associated with dermatophytoses (tinea-IRIS) may cause considerable morbidity. Yet, it has been scarcely reported and is rarely considered in th
Malaria intervention scale-up in Africa: effectiveness predictions for health programme planning tools, based on dynamic transmission modelling (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Scale-up of malaria prevention and treatment needs to continue to further important gains made in the past decade, but national strategies and budget allocations are not always evidence-ba
Gaining and sustaining schistosomiasis control: study protocol and baseline data prior to different treatment strategies in five African countries (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE) was established in 2008 to answer strategic questions about schistosomiasis control. For programme managers,
Applied statistical training to strengthen analysis and health research capacity in Rwanda (Publications)
BACKGROUND: To guide efficient investment of limited health resources in sub-Saharan Africa, local researchers need to be involved in, and guide, health system and policy research. While extensive sur
<em>Plasmodium </em>Helical Interspersed Subtelomeric (PHIST) proteins, at the Center of Host Cell Remodeling (Publications)
During the asexual cycle, Plasmodium falciparum extensively remodels the human erythrocyte to make it a suitable host cell. A large number of exported proteins facilitate this remodeling process, whic
Community-based surveillance to monitor mortality in a malaria-endemic and Ebola-epidemic setting in rural Guinea (Publications)
Multiple community-based approaches can aid in quantifying mortality in the absence of reliable health facility data. Community-based sentinel site surveillance that was used to document mortality and
Inverse trends of <em>Campylobacter </em>and <em>Salmonella</em> in Swiss surveillance data, 1988-2013 (Publications)
Clinical isolates of Campylobacter spp. and Salmonella spp. are notifiable in Switzerland. In 1995, Campylobacter replaced Salmonella as the most frequently reported food-borne pathogen. We analysed n
Bayesian risk profiling of soil-transmitted helminth infections and estimates of preventive chemotherapy for school-aged children in Côte... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Soil-transmitted helminthiasis affects more than a billion people in the world and accounts for a global burden of 5.1 million disability-adjusted life years. The objectives of this study
