Matching comprehensive health insurance reimbursements to their real costs: the case of antenatal care visits in a region of Peru (Publications)
in all 8 health centres was $569,933 with an average cost per ANC visit of $31.3 (95 % CI $29.7-$33.5). Salaries comprised 74.4 % of the total cost. The average cost of the services covered by the SIS fee
Understanding suicide attempts among gay men from their self-perceived causes (Publications)
cultural epidemiology. In all, 16.7% of the respondents reported a suicide attempt in their lifetime (59.5% of them with multiple attempts). At their latest attempt, over two thirds asserted intent to die, and
Maternal HIV infection, drug use, and growth of uninfected children in their first 3 years (Publications)
these infants remaining just slightly smaller at 3 years with an estimated effect on z scores of -0.5 for weight with 95% confidence interval (-0.89 to -0.11) and -0.37 (-0.72 to -0.02) for height. CONCLUSIONS:
Geostatistical modelling of soil-transmitted helminth infection in Cambodia: do socioeconomic factors improve predictions? (Publications)
Population-adjusted prevalences for school-aged children from 2000 onwards were 28.7% for hookworm, 1.5% for Ascaris lumbricoides and 0.9% for Trichuris trichiura. Surprisingly, at the country-wide analyses
Vitamin A supplementation in Tanzania: the impact of a change in programmatic delivery strategy on coverage (Publications)
the introduction of twice-yearly vitamin A supplementation campaigns for children aged 6 months to 5 years, a 6-monthly universal targeting scheme (2002). A representative cluster sample of approximately
Diagnostic accuracy of Kato-Katz and FLOTAC for assessing anthelmintic drug efficacy (Publications)
interval (CI): 66-75%), 22% (95% CI: 17-26%) and 12% (95% CI: 8-15%), respectively. At follow-up, 3-5 weeks after 174 among the 269 re-examined children were administered anthelmintic drugs, we observed
Serodiagnosis of <em>Echinococcus spp.</em> infection: explorative selection of diagnostic antigens by peptide microarray (Publications)
parasite proteins potentially exposed to the host immune system. From 6 proteins of E. multilocularis and 5 proteins of E. granulosus, 45 peptides between 24 and 30 amino acids in length were designed. These
SCYX-7158, an orally-active benzoxaborole for the treatment of stage 2 human African trypanosomiasis (Publications)
stable and CNS permeable. In a murine stage 2 study, SCYX-7158 is effective orally at doses as low as 12.5 mg/kg (QDx7 days). In vivo pharmacokinetic characterization of SCYX-7158 demonstrates that the compound
Traffic-related air pollution and incident type 2 diabetes: results from the SALIA cohort study (Publications)
nitrogen dioxide was determined at different spatial scales. RESULTS: Between 1990 and 2006, 87 (10.5%) new cases of diabetes were reported among the SALIA cohort members. The hazards for diabetes were
Malaria risk and access to prevention and treatment in the paddies of the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania (Publications)
fever episodes were treated at a health facility, while home-management was less common (37%, 17.4-50.5). CONCLUSION: Living in the shamba does not appear to result in a higher fever-risk. Mosquito nets usage