Complementary school garden, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene interventions to improve children's nutrition and health status in Burkina Faso... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Malnutrition and intestinal parasitic infections are common among children in Burkina Faso and Nepal. However, specific health-related data in school-aged children in these two countries a
Multilevel analysis of childbearing in childhood in Tanzania's Rufiji district (Publications)
Objectives To examine levels, trends and correlates of childbearing in childhood (CiC) in the Rufiji district of Tanzania from 2002 to 2010. Methods Using longitudinal data collected in, and by, the R
A malaria risk map of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (Publications)
BACKGROUND: In Kinshasa, malaria remains a major public health problem but its spatial epidemiology has not been assessed for decades now. The city's growth and transformation, as well as recent contr
Estimation of the antirelapse efficacy of tafenoquine, using <em>Plasmodium vivax</em> genotyping (Publications)
Plasmodium vivax relapse prevention is a key treatment goal in malaria. Use of P. vivax genotyping in a multicenter, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled Phase IIb study in Peru, India, Thaila
Diagnosis of <em>Opisthorchis viverrini</em> infection with handheld light microscopy in Lao People's Democratic Republic (Publications)
Opisthorchis viverrini infection is a neglected tropical disease, yet it is of considerable public health importance in southeast Asia given the predilection for chronically infected persons to develo
A sero-epidemiological approach to explore transmission of <em>Mycobacterium ulcerans</em> (Publications)
The debilitating skin disease Buruli ulcer (BU) is caused by infection with Mycobacterium ulcerans. While various hypotheses on potential reservoirs and vectors of M. ulcerans exist, the mode of trans
Spatial and temporal variability of fluoride concentrations in groundwater resources of Larestan and Gerash regions in Iran from 2003 to 2010 (Publications)
There is discrepancy about intervals of fluoride monitoring in groundwater resources by Iranian authorities. Spatial and temporal variability of fluoride in groundwater resources of Larestan and Geras