A global biomedical R&D fund and mechanism for innovations of public health importance (Publications)
Bernard Pécoul and colleagues call for the establishment of a global biomedical R&D fund as a key priority of the G7 summit in June 2015.
Patterns of age-specific mortality in children in endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
Understanding of the age- and season- dependence of malaria mortality is an important prerequisite for epidemiologic models of malaria immunity. However, most studies of malaria mortality have aggrega
Tuberkulintests und Tuberkuloseinzidenz bei Schülern - Erfahrungen aus dem Schularztamt Basel-Stadt (Publications)
15-year-old reactors to intradermic tuberculin tests were analized over the period from 1976 to 1983 to assess the prevalence of tuberculosis in this age group. The proportion of children with BCG vac
Antitrypanosomal activity of some medicinal plants from Nigerian ethnomedicine (Publications)
Human African trypanosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease with complex clinical presentation, diagnosis, and difficult treatment. The available drugs for the treatment of trypanosomiasis are old,
The acceptability of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants (IPTi) delivered through the expanded programme of immunization in... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants (IPTi) reduces the incidence of clinical malaria. However, before making decisions about implementation, it is essential to ensure t
<em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> msp1, msp2 and glurp allele frequency and diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The efficacy of anti-malarial drugs is assessed over a period of 28-63 days (depending on the drugs' residence time) following initiation of treatment in order to capture late failures. Ho