The effects of medicines availability and stock-outs on household's utilization of healthcare services in Dodoma region, Tanzania (Publications)
Low- and middle-income countries have been undertaking health finance reforms to address shortages of medicines. However, data are lacking on how medicine availability and stock-outs influence access
Impact of a complex gender-transformative intervention on maternal and child health outcomes in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: protocol of... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: In the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) programs targeting women are implemented. In the context of the 'Mawe Tatu' prog
Assessing the quality of cause of death data in six high-income countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Japan and Switzerland (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: To assess the policy utility of national cause of death (COD) data of six high-income countries with highly developed health information systems. METHODS: National COD data sets from Austr
High failure rates of protease inhibitor-based antiretroviral treatment in rural Tanzania - a prospective cohort study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Poor adherence to antiretroviral drugs and viral resistance are the main drivers of treatment failure in HIV-infected patients. In sub-Saharan Africa, avoidance of treatment failure on sec
The catastrophic and impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket healthcare payments in Kenya, 2018 (Publications)
Introduction: Progress towards effective service coverage and financial protection-the two dimensions of Universal Health Coverage (UHC)-has been limited in Kenya in the last decade. The government of
A weighted genetic risk score of adult glioma susceptibility loci associated with pediatric brain tumor risk (Publications)
Genetic risk score (GRS) is used to demonstrate the genetic variants contributing to the polygenic architecture of complex diseases. By using a GRS, we have investigated the additive impact of the kno
Transportation noise impairs cardiovascular function without altering sleep: the importance of autonomic arousals (Publications)
Aims: Chronic exposure to nocturnal transportation noise has been linked to cardiovascular disorders with sleep impairment as the main mediator. Here we examined whether nocturnal transportation noise
Quantification of annual settlement growth in rural mining areas using machine learning (Publications)
Studies on annual settlement growth have mainly focused on larger cities or incorporated data rarely available in, or applicable to, sparsely populated areas in sub-Saharan Africa, such as aerial phot
