More than seven decades of <em>Acta Tropica</em>: partnership to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Publications)
The inaugural issue of Acta Tropica has been published in 1944, at a time of utmost international isolation and uncertainty due to World War II. Now, more than seven decades later, Acta Tropica is a t
From reverse innovation to global innovation in animal health: a review (Publications)
Reverse innovation refers to learning from or diffusion of innovations developed in low income settings and further translated to industrialized countries. There is lack of consensus regarding termino
Viral suppression after transition from nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor- to dolutegravir-based antiretroviral therapy: a prospective... (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: Since 2018, the World Health Organization has recommended dolutegravir (DTG)-containing antiretroviral therapy (ART) for most people living with HIV. Country programmes across Africa have
More than seven decades of <em>Acta Tropica</em>: looking back to move into the future (Publications)
Acta Tropica is an international, peer-reviewed journal advancing scientific research in the fields of tropical medicine and parasitology. This article elucidates the rich history of the journal and s
Current use pesticides in soil and air from two agricultural sites in South Africa: implications for environmental fate and human exposure (Publications)
Concerns about the possible negative impacts of current use pesticides (CUPs) for both the environment and human health have increased worldwide. However, the knowledge on the occurrence of CUPs in so
The Youth Attitudes about Vaccines (YAV-5) scale: adapting the parent attitudes about childhood vaccines short scale for use with youth in German,... (Publications)
No validated measures of vaccine hesitancy (VH) for youth vaccination currently exist. We adapted the Parent Attitudes about Childhood Vaccines survey (PACV-15) for use in youth to create the version
Trust, affect, and choice in parents' vaccination decision-making and health-care provider selection in Switzerland (Publications)
This article examines the relationships between biomedicine, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and parents' vaccination decision-making in Switzerland. Our empirical evidence sheds light on
Effectiveness of Nifurtimox Eflornithine Combination Therapy (NECT) in <em>T. b. gambiense</em> second stage sleeping sickness patients in the... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Nifurtimox-eflornithine combination therapy (NECT) for the treatment of second stage gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) was added to the World Health Organization's Essential Me
Integrated community based human and animal syndromic surveillance in Adadle district of the Somali region of Ethiopia (Publications)
The economy of Ethiopia largely depends on agriculture and roughly 80% of the households have direct contact with domestic animals which make the community vulnerable to zoonotic diseases, especially
Prevalence and risk factors for malaria in pregnancy in Vanga, Democratic Republic of Congo (Publications)
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the second most malarious country in the world, but little information is available on malaria control measures in pregnancy. We conducted a longitudinal stud
