Optimizing implementation of preventive chemotherapy against soil-transmitted helminthiasis and intestinal schistosomiasis using high-resolution data:... (Publications)
districts, respectively. Species-specific district-level prevalence remained below 10%, varying between 0.51% (hookworm in Jacqueville) and 9.06% (Trichuris trichiura in Dabou). However, when considering s
Costs of community-wide mass drug administration and school-based deworming for soil-transmitted helminths: evidence from a randomised controlled... (Publications)
other volunteers. RESULTS: On average, cMDA unit costs were more expensive than SBD in India ($1.17 vs $0.72) and Malawi ($2.26 vs $1.69), and comparable in Benin ($2.45 vs $2.47). cMDA was more expensive than
Effect of preventive chemotherapy with praziquantel on schistosomiasis among school-aged children in sub-Saharan Africa: a spatiotemporal modelling... (Publications)
2011-19. Schistosomiasis prevalence among school-aged children in sub-Saharan Africa decreased from 23.0% (95% Bayesian credible interval 22.1-24.1) in 2000-10 to 9.6% (9.1-10.2) in 2015-19, an overall reduction
Investigating the association between long-term exposure to air pollution and greenness with mortality from neurological, cardio-metabolic and chronic... (Publications)
nervous system (relative risk (RR): 1.14, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.01, 1.28); 1.03 (95% CI: 0.99, 1.07); 1.05 (95% CI: 1.00, 1.10) respectively) and from cerebrovascular disease (RR: 1.14, 95% CI:
Risk profiling and efficacy of albendazole against the hookworms<em> Necator americanus </em>and <em>Ancylostoma ceylanicum</em> in Cambodia to... (Publications)
a ceylanicum. We estimated that as age increases by one year, the odds of being cured decreases by 0.4%-3.7%. Similarly, the odds of being cured for people who boiled drinking water was estimated to be
Effect of bovine tuberculosis on selected productivity parameters and trading in dairy cattle kept under intensive husbandry in Central Ethiopia (Publications)
included a higher percentage of reactor animals (58%) as compared with non-reactor animals (42%) (p = 0.0001). Overall, reactors were eliminated from the farms within 238.6 days after receiving test results
Dynamics of the COVID-19 epidemic in Ireland under mitigation (Publications)
partly due to the UK variant appearing in Ireland. In June 2020 we estimated that sero-prevalence was 2.0% (95% CI: 1.2-3.5%) in complete accordance with a sero-prevalence survey. By the end of April 2021,
Challenges in delivery of tuberculosis services in Ethiopian pastoralist settings: clues for reforming service models and organizational structures (Publications)
transcribed, coded and analyzed to identify pre-defined and emerging sub-themes. ATLAS.ti version 7.0 was used for coding data, categorizing codes, and visualizing networks. RESULTS: Poor knowledge of TB
Adherence to standard treatment guidelines among prescribers in primary healthcare facilities in the Dodoma region of Tanzania (Publications)
wrong medication was given in 621 cases (30.9%) and no diagnosis or medication was given in nine cases (0.5%). Sixty-one percent of all patients received an antibiotic regardless of the diagnoses. Complete
Impact of seven years of mass drug administration and recrudescence of <em>Schistosoma haematobium</em> infections after one year of treatment gap in... (Publications)
models. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: In adults, the apparent S. haematobium prevalence was 3.9% in 2011 and 0.4% in 2020. In schoolchildren, the prevalence decreased from 6.6% in 2012 to 1.2% in 2019 with vicissitudes
