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1. GPS-based fine-scale mapping surveys for schistosomiasis assessment: a practical introduction and documentation of field implementation (Publications)

   GPS-based fine-scale mapping surveys for schistosomiasis assessment: a practical introduction and documentation of field implementation

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   survey-related data, field enumerators searched for the houses' geolocation using the mobile applications Open Data Kit (ODK) and MAPS.ME. The number of inhabited and uninhabited structures, the median distance

2. Relation between organophosphate pesticide metabolite concentrations with pesticide exposures, socio-economic factors and lifestyles: a... (Publications)

   Relation between organophosphate pesticide metabolite concentrations with pesticide exposures, socio-economic factors and lifestyles: a cross-sectional study among school boys in the rural Western Cape, South Africa

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   household income, member of household working with pesticides, living on a farm, drinking water from an open water source and eating crops from the vineyard and or garden. The study found younger age and living

3. Malaria intervention scale-up in Africa: effectiveness predictions for health programme planning tools, based on dynamic transmission modelling (Publications)

   Malaria intervention scale-up in Africa: effectiveness predictions for health programme planning tools, based on dynamic transmission modelling

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   Spectrum health programme planning tool. METHODS: The dynamic Plasmodium falciparum transmission model OpenMalaria was used to simulate health effects of scale-up of insecticide-treated net (ITN) usage, indoor

4. Evaluation of an FDA approved library against laboratory models of human intestinal nematode infections (Publications)

   Evaluation of an FDA approved library against laboratory models of human intestinal nematode infections

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   their considerable global health burden. The aim of the present study was to test the activity of an openly available FDA library against laboratory models of human intestinal nematode infections. METHODS:

5. Operational strategies of anti-malarial drug campaigns for malaria elimination in Zambia's southern province: a simulation study (Publications)

   Operational strategies of anti-malarial drug campaigns for malaria elimination in Zambia's southern province: a simulation study

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   effect of alternative operational strategies for parasite clearance in southern province. METHODS: OpenMalaria, a discrete-time, individual-based stochastic model of malaria, was parameterized for the study

6. "It is not expected for married couples": a qualitative study on challenges to safer sex communication among polygamous and monogamous partners in... (Publications)

   "It is not expected for married couples": a qualitative study on challenges to safer sex communication among polygamous and monogamous partners in southeastern Tanzania

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   were investigated and the challenges to safer sex dialogue explored. RESULTS: The study revealed that open safer sex dialogue in marriage is limited and challenged by social norms about marriage (a view that

7. Human biomonitoring as a tool for exposure assessment in industrially contaminated sites (ICSs). Lessons learned within the ICS and Health European... (Publications)

   Human biomonitoring as a tool for exposure assessment in industrially contaminated sites (ICSs). Lessons learned within the ICS and Health European Network

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   fine-tuning of the results and allowed for more targeted remediating actions aimed to reduce exposure. Open and transparent communication of study results with contextual information and involvement of local

8. Efficacy thresholds and target populations for antiviral COVID-19 treatments to save lives and costs: a modelling study (Publications)

   Efficacy thresholds and target populations for antiviral COVID-19 treatments to save lives and costs: a modelling study

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   strategy to be cost-saving. Methods: We adapted an individual-based transmission model of SARS-CoV-2, OpenCOVID, which was calibrated and validated to 2020–2023 Swiss, European, and Northern Hemisphere ep

9. Community effectiveness of pyriproxyfen as a dengue vector control method: a systematic review (Publications)

   Community effectiveness of pyriproxyfen as a dengue vector control method: a systematic review

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   persistence of the intervention and may also slow down the development of insecticide resistance. Open questions concern concentration and frequency of application in the various treatments. Area-wide

10. Determinants of malaria infection among under five children in Gursum district of Somali region, eastern Ethiopia (Publications)

    Determinants of malaria infection among under five children in Gursum district of Somali region, eastern Ethiopia

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    (AOR) = 3.60 (1.73-7.48)], residing in rural areas [AOR = 3.58 (1.56-8.21)], living in houses with openings or holes in the walls that facilitate mosquito entry [AOR = 5.00 (2.22-11.28)], and not receiving