Factors affecting adoption, implementation fidelity, and sustainability of the redesigned community health fund in Tanzania: a mixed methods protocol... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Despite the implementation of various initiatives to address low enrollment in voluntary micro health insurance (MHI) schemes in sub-Saharan Africa, the problem of low enrollment remains u
A qualitative appraisal of stakeholder reactions to a tool for burden of disease-based health system budgeting in Ghana (Publications)
BACKGROUND: In 2010, the Ghana Health Service launched a program of cooperation with the Tanzania Ministry of Health and Social Welfare that was designed to adapt Tanzania's PLANREP budgeting and repo
Investigation of indolglyoxamide and indolacetamide analogues of polyamines as antimalarial and antitrypanosomal agents (Publications)
Pure compound screening has previously identified the indolglyoxy lamidospermidine ascidian metabolites didemnidine A and B (2 and 3) to be weak growth inhibitors of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense (IC
Cause-specific childhood mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Childhood mortality, particularly in the first 5 years of life, is a major global concern and the target of Millennium Development Goal 4. Although the majority of childhood deaths occur i
Scenario planning for community development in Vietnam: a new tool for integrated health approaches? (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Like many countries in Southeast Asia, Vietnam's rapid population and economic growth has met challenges in infrastructure development, especially sanitation in rural areas. OBJECTIVE: As
Aging images as a motivational trigger for smoking cessation in young women (Publications)
Recruiting adolescents into smoking cessation programs has been challenging, and there is a lack of effective smoking cessation interventions for this age group. We aimed to assess whether the approac
Sequence and diversity of T-cell receptor beta-chain V and J genes of the owl monkey <em>Aotus nancymaae</em> (Publications)
The New World primate Aotus nancymaae is susceptible to infection with the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum and has therefore been recommended by the World Health Organization as a model f