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1. Applied statistical training to strengthen analysis and health research capacity in Rwanda (Publications)

   Applied statistical training to strengthen analysis and health research capacity in Rwanda

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   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

2. Catalyzing the scale-up of community-based primary healthcare in a rural impoverished region of northern Ghana (Publications)

   Catalyzing the scale-up of community-based primary healthcare in a rural impoverished region of northern Ghana

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   Ghana's Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) initiative develops accessible healthcare with participatory community support, using strategies developed and tested by a project of the Na

3. StrongNet: an international network to improve diagnostics and access to treatment for strongyloidiasis control (Publications)

   StrongNet: an international network to improve diagnostics and access to treatment for strongyloidiasis control

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4. Burden and historical trend of Buruli ulcer prevalence in selected communities along the Offin River of Ghana (Publications)

   Burden and historical trend of Buruli ulcer prevalence in selected communities along the Offin River of Ghana

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   Buruli ulcer (BU) is a neglected tropical skin disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans with more than two thirds of the global cases reported in West Africa. A nationwide active BU case search conduc

5. Limited genetic diversity of hepatitis B virus in the general population of the Offin River valley in Ghana (Publications)

   Limited genetic diversity of hepatitis B virus in the general population of the Offin River valley in Ghana

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   Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections account for approximately 780,000 deaths per year, most of which occur in the developing world. Co-infection with HBV and hepatitis delta virus (HDV) may lead to the

6. Sustaining control of schistosomiasis mansoni in western Côte d'Ivoire: results from a SCORE study, one year after initial praziquantel... (Publications)

   Sustaining control of schistosomiasis mansoni in western Côte d'Ivoire: results from a SCORE study, one year after initial praziquantel administration

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   BACKGROUND: The Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE) has launched several large-scale trials to determine the best strategies for gaining and sustaining control o

7. Seeing beyond 2020: an economic evaluation of contemporary and emerging strategies for elimination of <em>Trypanosoma brucei gambiense</em> (Publications)

   Seeing beyond 2020: an economic evaluation of contemporary and emerging strategies for elimination of <em>Trypanosoma brucei gambiense</em>

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   BACKGROUND: Trypanosoma brucei (T b) gambiense is targeted to reach elimination as a public health problem by 2020 and full elimination by 2030. To achieve these goals, stakeholders need to consider s

8. Sustaining the control of <em>Schistosoma mansoni</em> in western Côte d'Ivoire: baseline findings before the implementation of a randomized... (Publications)

   Sustaining the control of <em>Schistosoma mansoni</em> in western Côte d'Ivoire: baseline findings before the implementation of a randomized trial

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   We report baseline findings before the implementation of a 4-year intervention trial designed to assess the impact of three different school-based treatment schedules with praziquantel to sustain the

9. An integrated and comprehensive service delivery model to improve pediatric and maternal HIV care in rural Africa (Publications)

   An integrated and comprehensive service delivery model to improve pediatric and maternal HIV care in rural Africa

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   BACKGROUND: Strategies to improve HIV diagnosis and linkage into care, antiretroviral treatment coverage, and treatment outcomes of mothers and children are urgently needed in sub-Saharan Africa. METH

10. Antimalarial Pyrido[1,2-a]benzimidazoles (Publications)

    Antimalarial Pyrido[1,2-a]benzimidazoles

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    A novel class of antimalarial pyrido[1,2-a]benzimidazoles were synthesized and evaluated for antiplasmodial activity and cytotoxicity following hits identified from screening commercially available co