Mobile nudges and financial incentives to improve coverage of timely neonatal vaccination in rural areas (GEVaP trial): a 3-armed cluster randomized... (Publications)
intent-to-treat analysis, voice call reminders were associated with 10.5 percentage point (95% CI: 4.0, 17.1) higher coverage of on-time vaccination, while mobile phone-based incentives were associated with
Short-term personal and outdoor exposure to ultrafine and fine particulate air pollution in association with blood pressure and lung function in... (Publications)
Personal soot exposure and dose were positively associated with diastolic blood pressure (1.2 and 0.9 mmHg increase per Interquartile range). No consistent associations between PM2.5 or soot exposure
The impact of maternal RSV vaccine to protect infants in Gavi-supported countries: estimates from two models (Publications)
implemented across 73 low- and middle-income countries could avert 10.1-12.5 million cases, 2.8-4.0 million hospitalizations, 123.7-177.7 thousand deaths, and 8.5-11.9 million DALYs among infants under
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis surveillance and cascade of care in Madagascar: a five-year (2012-2017) retrospective study (Publications)
cascade pertaining to MDR-TB cases reaching diagnostic centres but failing to be accurately diagnosed (59.0%). This poor success in diagnosis of MDR-TB is due to both the current use of low-sensitivity smear
Design, implementation and evaluation of a national campaign to distribute nine million free LLINs to children under five years of age in Tanzania (Publications)
campaign. RESULTS: Nine donors contributed to the national campaign that purchased and distributed 9.0 million LLINs at an average cost of $7.07 per LLIN, including all campaign-associated activities. The
A new rapid diagnostic test for detection of anti-<em>Schistosoma mansoni</em> and anti-<em>Schistosoma haematobium</em> antibodies (Publications)
sensitivity, negative predictive value (NPV), and positive predictive value (PPV) of the SmCTF-RDT was 75.0%, 84.2% and 22.5%, respectively. When two urine filtrations were considered as the reference standard
Modeling the public health impact of malaria vaccines for developers and policymakers (Publications)
10-year period. Assumed purchase price was $5 per dose and injection equipment and delivery costs were $0.40 per dose. RESULTS: The model projects the number of doses needed, uncomplicated and severe cases
Etude suisse sur la pollution de l'air et les maladies respiratoires chez l'adulte (SAPALDIA) (Publications)
symptoms of chronic bronchitis (+31%, 10-55%), on FVC (-3.1%; -3.7 to -2.6%), and FEV1 (-1.1%; -1.7% to -0.5%), on the incidence of respiratory symptoms and the length of symptomfree intervals (11% change per
Aromatase and breast cancer susceptibility (Publications)
were 7.92 in African-Americans, 8.22 in Japanese, 10.73 in Latinas and 9.29 in non-Latina Whites (P=0.09). The high E1/A ratio in Latina women was not associated with a high breast cancer incidence; in
The use of personal digital assistants for data entry at the point of collection in a large household survey in southern Tanzania (Publications)
a survey of over 21,000 scattered rural households in southern Tanzania. METHODS: Pendragon Forms 4.0 software was used to develop a modular questionnaire designed to record information on household residents
