From strategy development to routine implementation: the cost of Intermittent Preventive Treatment in Infants for malaria control (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals for health requires a massive scaling-up of interventions in Sub Saharan Africa. Intermittent Preventive Treatment in infants (IPTi) is
Creating an "enabling environment" for taking insecticide treated nets to national scale: the Tanzanian experience (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Malaria is the largest cause of health services attendance, hospital admissions and child deaths in Tanzania. At the Abuja Summit in April 2000 Tanzania committed itself to protect 60% o
Prevalence and risk factors of helminths and intestinal protozoa infections among children from primary schools in western Tajikistan (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Intestinal parasitic infections represent a public health problem in Tajikistan, but epidemiological evidence is scarce. The present study aimed at assessing the extent of helmin
A virosomal malaria peptide vaccine elicits a long-lasting sporozoite-inhibitory antibody response in a phase 1a clinical trial (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: Peptides delivered on the surface of influenza virosomes have been shown to induce solid humoral immune responses in experimental animals. High titers of peptide-specific antibodies were a
Modelling the epidemiological impact of intermittent preventive treatment against malaria in infants (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Trials of intermittent preventive treatment against malaria in infants (IPTi) using sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) have shown a positive, albeit variable, protective efficacy against clin
Willingness to use a rapid diagnostic test for malaria in a rural area of central Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Malaria mortality is mainly a direct consequence of inadequate and/or delayed diagnosis and case management. Some important control interventions (e.g. long-lasting insecticidal
