Helminth infection in southern Laos: high prevalence and low awareness (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Helminthiasis is a public health concern in Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR, Laos). This study aimed to understand helminth infection and associated risk factors in relation to e
Health system support for childbirth care in Southern Tanzania: results from a health facility census (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Progress towards reaching Millennium Development Goals four (child health) and five (maternal health) is lagging behind, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, despite increasing efforts to s
Giving adolescents a voice? Using videos to represent reproductive health realities of adolescents in Tanzania (Publications)
Visual research forms part of a growing field in participatory research. Lately new discussions among scientists evolved about conceptual considerations and methodological approaches related to the us
Genetic diversity of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> among school-aged children from the Man region, western Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum allows the molecular discrimination of otherwise microscopically identical parasites and the identification of individual clones in multiple
Beyond antimalarial stock-outs: implications of health provider compliance on out-of-pocket expenditure during care-seeking for fever in south east... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: To better understand how stock-outs of the first line antimalarial, Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT) and other non-compliant health worker behaviour, influence household expendi
Fast<em> in vitro</em> methods to determine the speed of action and the stage-specificity of anti-malarials in <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Recent whole cell in vitro screening campaigns identified thousands of compounds that are active against asexual blood stages of Plasmodium falciparum at submicromolar concentrations. Thes